NEWS Archives

Customer First – myth or reality?

Partner and Growth Practice Lead, Graeme Chipp, talks about customer led transformation that requires a new approach. Not customer experience improvements, but a ‘whole of business’ approach focused on establishing effective intent across the entire business combined with a heavy dose of customer reality.

SPP 2019 Summer Internship Program – it’s a wrap!

SPP’s annual Summer Internship Program ended in February for our star recruits. Highlights over the past six weeks included an intensive training schedule, contributing to client work, individual case study presentations, a Partner and Intern breakfast, mentoring from the broader SPP team, as well as social events.

Innovative Education Models – how to measure impact

With an inspiring line-up of speakers, SPP’s Leadership Panel Breakfast held on Monday, 4 March was attended by principals and educators, education and government stakeholders, eager to discuss the opportunities and challenges of innovative education models. SPP’s Senior Partner Ben Apted talks about the need to focus on being clear on what sort of return institutes or stakeholders are after, and being able to value this.

Open Banking

The Open Banking framework impacts all major banks and financial services institutions, creating a new operating environment where accredited third-parties can access consumer data. This access to data will generate a multitude of opportunities for banks and third parties to create new products and services. It will also create opportunities for retail banks to reshape the way they add value to their banking services and create new efficiencies and innovations in customer service technologies.

The University of Melbourne’s BCom students Crack the Case!

SPP was proud to again to be the Principal Sponsor of the BCom Case Competition, the premier student-led undergraduate competition run within the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Business & Economics.

Case Study – Forman Brown Developing Specific Sales Strategies

CLIENT: BROWN FORMAN SECTOR: Food & Beverage EXPERTISE: Go to Market “You were able to partner with our team to unlock the insights that has enabled us to increase both our efficiency and effectiveness. Our investment has paid back more than ten-fold and enhanced the quality of customer interaction.” Andrew McNamara – Sales Director, Brown-Forman Australia …

Media Release: SPP and GSG merger announcement

An enhanced offering in the local management consulting industry will bring increased competition to the large multi-national firms operating in the Australian market, following the merger between independent management consulting firm Strategic Project Partners (SPP) and consulting firm Growth Solutions Group (GSG). For our clients, this will enhance our service offering, as well as the solutions we deliver to address our clients’ needs.

WHAT WE DO: Finding growth solutions

Brands are not complex beasts, but developing, growing and sustaining them still demands the crucial understanding of the part they play in the daily decision making that drives revenues and profits.

Strategy is a dance, not a race

Strategy is the series of moves and counter moves you make to respond to your environment. But it’s not a race, it’s a dance that you do on a crowded dance floor. SPP’s Tim Morris gives advice on how to ‘do strategy’ well.

SPP’s new Senior Associate Peter Slade

SPP’s new Senior Associate Peter Slade shares some incredible life experiences, and what he has learned from the RAAF that can be applied to the world of consulting. Peter holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School, and now applies his strategic and tactical thinking, and his strong values in teamwork, to deliver solutions for our clients.