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How to engage stakeholders in an environment where trust is scarce, tensions run high, and every conversation carries weight.
How to maximise client value through a multidisciplinary delivery model.
Strategic project assurance is a critical enabler that strengthens decision-making.
Balancing Risks and Unlocking Opportunities: How Government navigates the world of technology, artificial intelligence and cyber security.
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Commercial and Analytics
Legal
What is environmentally sustainable procurement? Current policies and what they look like in practice.
This session will take participants through the tendering process, utilising case studies to identify traps to avoid and providing tips to ensure you get the best possible outcome from your tendering activities.
Managing decision-making and risks across projects, and equipping teams with essential new skills.
Explore various relationships Procurement Officer should be aware of, why they are important, and how to successfully develop and maintain them.
Recent years have seen a significant shift in the probity and integrity field, driven by changing community expectations and increased complexity in the operations and practices of Government.
Faced with oversight of a vast range of companies or individuals, regulators must achieve their goals and deliver on public expectations, all while they adhere to limits on budgets and staff and navigate increasing complexity and technological change, including the emergence of Artificial Intelligen
Environmental, Social and Governance principles have become critical for Commonwealth agencies as 6000 government entities will soon be required to meet new climate-related reporting standards.
Why does it matter and how to ensure it?
Let’s imagine the APS as a gourmet kitchen. Each department is a specialised station, every public servant a skilled chef, and together they craft a complex, multi-course meal.
Streamlining governance: embracing minimum viable bureaucracy in project management and procurement.
From legislation to implementation, Anthony Honeyman delves into the strategies for assuring success.
NDIS Safeguards and Quality Commission Operational Policy and Practice Optimisation Project.
Case study
Proximity sets a new standard in project implementation working with Auscheck.
Defence
In this session, we look at the role of strategic communication in bridging the gap between government and their disconnected constituents.
In today’s fast-paced, high-velocity environment, traditional project management methods may no longer be enough.
Best practice evaluation includes many elements, yet few manage to do it well consistently and use the insights for future design.
Discover how to integrate security into sourcing for improved procurement, contracting, and supply chain practices.
Most change efforts – and many projects – fail due to a lack of successful change management.
An introduction to how agile methodologies can reshape the federal procurement landscape, driving efficiency while maintaining integrity.
Dealing with ethical challenges in government can be tricky, but it’s manageable.
When The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety was founded in 2018 it galvanised unprecedented attention on Aged Care and the systemic issues contributing to substandard care for some of the most vulnerable in our community.
For many procurement professionals it can often be difficult, when undertaking an acquisition activity for a solution to a complex business challenge, to establish a market ready specification that facilitates a comprehensive response from the market.
When exploring project management, we emphasise the need for planning, processes, and skillsets required to successfully deliver project goals and uncover what is possible.
One of my favourite movies of all time is Apollo 13. Every time I watch the movie, and that’s been more times than I care to count, I’m on the edge of my seat convinced that the astronauts are doomed with no hope of them returning to earth safe and sound. Each time, I hold my breath during the e
Given the ANAO’s current focus, it is important to ensure your agency has robust and up-to-date documentation and procedures in place to withstand an ANAO audit. Probity templates and processes are often not reviewed or updated regularly to incorporate emerging probity issues. Updating your agency
Podcast
How are your new year’s resolutions going? Is better regulation a resolution?
Value for Money in procurement takes into account the total cost of procurement from planning to disposal, this is commonly known as total cost of ownership. Put another way, Value for Money requires a balanced judgement of financial and non-financial factors relevant to the procurement.
A panel examination of ethical problems across government.
Everyone (just about) is working from home or will be at some stage. What are employers’ responsibilities for workplace health and safety (WHS) when everyone is working from home? What are workers’ responsibilities? Does anyone really know?
Training
Some of my closest working relationships have been with my General Counsel and my experiences with all General Counsel have invariably been positive.
Performance Based Contracting (PBC) is an outcome oriented contracting method. The customer’s outcomes are achieved by contractually incentivising the contractor to deliver against them.
Harness purchasing power to achieve real change for Indigenous Australians. The Commonwealth Indigenous Procurement Policy was established in 2015 with the remit of increasing opportunities for Indigenous Australians to develop business and growing economic participation.
Cloud computing is essentially access over the internet to business software or user data stored on servers at a remote location or locations. Although not a new concept, cloud computing is still a relatively unfamiliar and complex area of ICT that many people find challenging.
Today, we hear a lot about fake news and information, particularly on the internet. But what if there was a way for people to have access to data so that the ‘truth’ of the data was preserved? Enter distributed ledger technology (‘DLT’).
Competitive dialogue (CD) is one form of interactive tendering to drive a solution that best meets the needs of the purchaser and respondents. It is a collaborative process which facilitates open interaction and dialogue with respondents prior to the submission of proposals.
Agile has become a staple in the business vocabulary these days, and in the world of project management it is providing organisations with a more flexible approach to managing complex projects than traditional methods.
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