Business planning

We support your annual cycle of business planning to optimise the alignment of people and other resources with your organisation’s requirements. We bring our expertise to help you translate your strategic direction into a work plan of new projects as well as business-as-usual activity.

You are looking to:

  • Define a plan for the next year that takes your organisation towards its desired future state
  • Optimise your resources to reach your strategic goals
  • Allocate work, accountabilities and resources
  • Develop a business plan
  • Align your team to the organisation’s strategic direction
  • Identify risks and respond to them

We can help by:

  • Working out the right people to be involved
  • Engaging senior stakeholders
  • Bringing you back to clarity of organisational intent
  • Understanding and mapping the complexities of your current context and pressures
  • Articulating value propositions and prioritising objectives and goals
  • Identifying initiatives to achieve your strategies
  • Defining performance standards
  • Planning resource allocations
  • Describing milestones and deliverables

What we have done:

  • We have worked with many divisions and agencies within the Australian Government as part of the annual business planning cycle.
  • We have developed many annual planning cycles that focus on identifying risks and opportunities in the first third of the financial year, strategic responses and shifts in the second third, followed by detailed plans and budget allocations in the final third of the financial year in time for the start of the next year

Examples of what we deliver:

  • Annual plan of work for organisations, divisions, branches or teams
  • Communication plans
  • Activity roadmaps
  • Risk management plans
  • Financial plans
  • Project plans