Organisational Capability

Organisational Capability

Sharpening capability and performance through people and information

Nous has an innovative consulting team that tackles complex and challenging issues for organisations throughout Australia. Nous has extensive experience working with organisations in all sectors to maximise the potential of people, information and technology processes. With a unique blend of in-depth understanding in people and organisational capability design and development along with information and technology strategy Nous offers insightful solutions to solve organisational conundrums and improve business performance.

Nous offers four key organisational capability improvement services:

• Organisational design - aligning organisational structure, systems, capabilities and culture
• Human resource strategies - devising human resource and people strategies that enhance organisational performance and growth
• Information management - designing knowledge, information and ICT strategies
• Creating organisational change - facilitating effective, sustainable organisational and cultural change

To offer more insightful and different solutions Nous draws on extensive experience:

• Working with managers to improve the performance of business through the alignment of strategy, information and technology functions with people processes
• Managing information and technology functions at the most senior level of public sector organisations
• Improving the performance of information, knowledge management and change management for systems implementation
• Understanding the drivers and operations of the private and public sector, developed through working with leaders at all levels of government and companies

Designing organisations

Structure, systems, capabilities and culture.

Nous links strategic and operational business imperatives to the way work actually gets done in modern, networked organisations. Nous enables organisations to move beyond simply putting people in boxes, to designing and building organisations that really work in terms of key processes, relationships and capabilities.

Developing people strategies

Nous creates compelling people engagement strategies that align the people and business objectives. Nous works with business leaders to design HR strategies that align with and deliver on the strategic imperatives of the organisation. Nous consultants have experience in HR at senior levels in organisations and help business to align their people and performance management systems for maximum performance.

Leading change

Nous consultants are expert in designing and developing organisational and cultural change strategies. Nous works to develop the capabilities of managers and staff to drive successful change. This is best done by leading and managing change at a team and divisional level through the design and implementation of initiatives to build the skills and the capability of the individuals to lead, manage and participate in successful change.

Information strategies

Nous has extensive experience working with organisations in all sectors to maximise the potential of information and people strategies. Nous offers insightful solutions to solve information and technology-based challenges and improve organisational performance. Nous ICT consultants offer a unique blend of in-depth understanding of information and technology strategy, people and organisational capability.

Nous has a track record of successfully improving the performance of organisations by:

People strategies

Designing and reviewing a number of people strategies including design a strategy for the development of school principals across Victoria

HR strategy

Working with a major healthcare business to move its HR approach from an administrative to a strategic approach reconfiguring every aspect of HR to meet the needs of the business

ICT strategy, review and development

Developing and reviewing the ICT strategies for several large Victorian government departments

Knowledge management strategies

Developing a knowledge management blueprint for a Victorian government department and a regional water authority

IT funding reviews

Carrying out activity based costing, IT charge-back systems and shared services funding arrangements for several companies including a chemical company operating across 200 sites throughout Australian and New Zealand

Design of adoption strategies for technological change

Developing strategies incorporating change management, policy and procedure review and training for government departments, a national insurance company and a major airline

Electronic record management

Reviewing the status if the uptake of VERS in the Victorian inner-budget government departments