Ensuring your local government strategy is effective and deliverable can present a challenge to some organisations. Our Local Government team can assist in with advice in many areas of Strategy such as governance, leadership, alignment, economic development, acquisitions and funding schemes.
Governance & Leadership
- Is your organisation structured to enable you to deliver on your strategic goals?
- Are there ways you can improve the performance of your directors and boards?
- Can you access advisors who understand the realities of the political environment?
Issues at the political and executive levels of councils require increased sophistication in the way they are managed due to the growing complexity of the local government environment generally. For more information click here
Strategy Alignment, Engagement and Execution
- You have a strategic plan in place but have you got the appropriate level of commitment from staff to deliver on it?
- Are you structured and appropriately aligned to help you execute your strategic plans?
- Is your organisation too internally focused?
- Are you leveraging all the opportunities from the community outcomes process aside from meeting your statutory obligations?
In recent times strategy development has become an essential core competency within the local government sector. For more information click here
Economic Development
- Do you want to move your economic development strategy from ‘the shelf’ and put it into action?
- Does your economic development strategy include your wider business community?
- Do you know what you want to achieve but need assistance in developing a feasibility study and a business case?
- Do you know how to assess the effectiveness of your community initiatives?
The development of local economies has been identified as a key priority within council LTCCPs to ensure long term local and regional viability. For more information click here
Business Acquisition, Disposal and Funding Schemes
- How do you invest more in your infrastructure within your existing funding capacity?
- Would parts of your organisation operate more effectively in a company structure?
- Are CCOs the best option to manage your business operations?
- Do you know how to properly value your infrastructure assets maintained by your engineers?
- Are you maximising the investment potential of your existing business assets?
Experience in the areas of business acquisition, divestment and funding schemes is something not generally available within many council operations. For more information click here
