Strategy and Planning
Strategy and Planning
Noetic can help your organisation through the strategy and planning process by providing the following services:
Strategic and Corporate/Business Planning
Strategic plans set the vision for your organisation, while corporate/business plans provide a more detailed guide for staff to work together to achieve your goals. Noetic works with you to understand your organisation and its operating environment. We use both a ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approach to ensure your strategy is clear,
responsive to external pressures, reflective of your stakeholders’ views, aligned both across and from top to bottom in your organisation, and easily implementable through actionable planning documents.
Benefits Management
Benefits management helps your organisation to realise the desired outcomes from any investment you make in a program, project or initiative. Benefits management complements the project management process by focusing on the desired benefits programs, projects and/or initiatives seek to deliver. Noetic works with you to define the business problem, identify the desired benefits and associated key performance indicators, and outline the business changes needed to deliver these benefits. We establish the processes and reporting tools to track performance as a means to review benefit realisation throughout the life of the investment. Benefits management can also be applied at a whole-of-organisation level to identify what benefits your organisation delivers and track the performance of your organisation in delivering these benefits.
Business Case Development
A well-argued and supported business case is key to ensuring you gain the approval and finances required for your project to proceed. Noetic challenges existing analysis and established thinking to improve the robustness of business cases. We consult stakeholders and develop a commonly agreed argument for why the investment is needed and how the return on your investment will be achieved. By applying a benefits management approach we ensure that your business case correctly outlines the benefits that will result from the proposed investment. Noetic can leverage your organisation’s established business case processes and templates, or bring our own proven business case approach and supporting materials.
Facilitation of Effective Planning
Getting the planning right for your initiative, project or program is essential to achieving smooth implementation and ensuring your desired outcomes are met. Noetic works with you to understand your desired outcomes, develop the appropriate inputs and materials, facilitate planning sessions to ensure key points and issues are raised and discussed, and ensure that agreed outcomes are captured. Throughout the process we consult with relevant stakeholders to gain buy-in, manage expectations, clearly identify roles and responsibilities, and set timelines, in order to develop a comprehensive plan for you and your organisation.
Workforce Planning
Workforce planning helps ensure your organisation has the appropriate skills to deliver both your current and future outcomes. Noetic conducts workforce planning in the context of your organisation’s broader strategic vision to meet your needs and integrate the solutions into your business practices. We examine your organisation and its environment to understand both the internal and external workforce demand and supply factors, and then develop strategies to address your workforce gaps.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Strategy Development
Having the right technology and information systems and using these efficiently can save your organisation money and improve the delivery of your products and services. Noetic develops strategies to align ICT investment with your organisation’s strategic outcomes. Our focus is to ensure the needs of business line areas are identified, documented in language that can be easily understood, and successfully addressed.
Information Management
Information is a key asset for your organisation and it needs to be actively managed to ensure it is captured, stored, shared and disseminated efficiently and effectively. Your information management arrangements should support your staff in achieving sound decision making and your organisational outcomes. Noetic optimises your information flows by identifying your information needs based on your organisation’s strategic objectives, assessing the adequacy of current arrangements, and developing information strategies to address identified issues and gaps.
Business Continuity Planning
When an emergency or disaster hits, your organisation needs to be able to continue to operate effectively while responding to the crisis with speed, efficiency and effectiveness. Noetic assists you in proactively planning for such events through the development of appropriate and implementable business continuity plans. We tailor our services to your needs, which could include a review of your extant business continuity plans and related systems, policies and procedures, and training.
Risk Planning
Risk planning helps your organisation to prevent or mitigate risks that may be detrimental to your ability to achieve outcomes. Noetic works with you to identify risks and assesses them in terms of likelihood and magnitude of impact. Based on this information we design mitigation strategies to enable you to monitor the risks and take appropriate action.
