Efficiency and Effectiveness

Our Local Government team can assist your organisation with its efficiency and effectiveness in areas including sustainability, capital and operating expenditure, management reporting, performance improvement, change management and managing your infrastructure assets.


Performance Management, Reporting and Improvement

  • How can you be sure that your costs and services are effective?
  • Are you organised appropriately to deliver on your commitments?
  • Does accountability for performance go right across your organisation?
  • Do your people, structure, processes and systems align with your strategy?
  • Is there a better way to manage your supply chain?
  • Are you maximising the benefits of synergies between your internal and external reporting processes?
  • Do your reports meaningfully integrate the financial and nonfinancial elements?
  • Does the effort you put into producing your reports match your needs?
  • Are you looking for ways to effectively measure and report on your community outcomes?

Continuously improving the effectiveness of an organisation is a bottom line imperative for every chief executive and their senior management team. For more information on how we can assist you with performance management, reporting and improvement click here.


Systems and Process Management

  • Do you know how to develop an effective IT strategy?
  • Is your IT infrastructure effective and does it deliver value for money?
  • Are you confident that your IT systems are secure?
  • Do you have a process to ensure your IT projects deliver all the benefits promised?

Keeping up with the rapid and ongoing changes in technology creates a challenging environment within which to plan, develop and implement strategy effectively. For more information on how we can assist you with systems and process management, click here.


Human Resources and Change Management

  • Do you know how to develop an effective HR strategy?
  • If you need to transform the organisation, do you know if you have the best change management strategies in place?
  • Are you attracting and retaining staff with the right skills?
  • Do you have the right number of people with the right skills for the job?
  • Do you want to maximise the leadership capability of your management team?

Recruitment and retention challenges force local government organisations to continually seek ways to maximise the effectiveness of their key business asset – their people. For more information on how we can assist you with human resources and change management click here.


Capex/Opex Projects and Asset Management

  • Are you looking to improve the delivery of your capital works programme?
  • Is your procurement process as effective as it could be?
  • How do you gain comfort that your projects will be delivered on time and on budget?
  • Does your council or board know that you manage your expenditure efficiently?
  • Do you have a process for ensuring your projects deliver all the benefits promised?
  • Do your asset management plans provide the right type of information on which you can make decisions around replacement, disposal or retention?
  • Are you confident you have the optimal level of assets in your portfolio?
  • Are you making the most of your assets to improve your funding and financing plans?
  • Are you confident you are properly managing all the risks associated with construction projects?

Improving performance in the delivery of projects and management of infrastructure is an ongoing issue for councils. For more information on how we can assist you with improving performance in the delivery of projects and management of assets click here.

 

Sustainability and Climate Change Services

  • Are you aware of the benefits to be obtained from measuring nonfinancial performance and how you can identify them?
  • Do you know where to start when developing a nonfinancial reporting system
  • How do you account for your organisations' greenhouse gas emissions
  • What policy advice are you providing to your councillors or board regarding the appropriate settings under New Zealand 's amended Emission Trading Scheme
  • Do you know how to maximise the opportunities?
  • Where would you start in making a business case for sustainability for your council?

Sustainability and climate change continue to assume an ever increasing profile in councils' planning agenda. For more information on how we can assist you with sustainability and climate change services click here.

 

Contact:

Craig Rice
Partner
Auckland
Tel: +64 9 355 8641

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