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Regulatory Barriers to an Integrated Public Service

An integrated public service is vital to the Australian public.

InsightConsulting

Sensitive Stakeholder Engagement

How to engage stakeholders in an environment where trust is scarce, tensions run high, and every conversation carries weight.

InsightConsulting

Maximising Client Value

How to maximise client value through a multidisciplinary delivery model.

InsightConsulting

Project Assurance as a Strategic Enabler

Strategic project assurance is a critical enabler that strengthens decision-making.

InsightConsulting

Balancing Risks and Unlocking Opportunities: How Government Navigates the World of Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security

Balancing Risks and Unlocking Opportunities: How Government navigates the world of technology, artificial intelligence and cyber security.

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Environmentally Sustainable Procurement: Aligning Government Practices with Net Zero Targets

What is environmentally sustainable procurement? Current policies and what they look like in practice. 

WebinarConsulting

Sitting on the other side of the fence: What it’s like to be a tenderer.

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.

WebinarConsulting

Exploring Changes to Procurement Processes in Defence: Balancing Speed with Risk

Managing decision-making and risks across projects, and equipping teams with essential new skills.

WebinarConsulting

Strategic Partnerships: Building and Sustaining Key Relationships for Procurement Success

Explore various relationships Procurement Officer should be aware of, why they are important, and how to successfully develop and maintain them.

WebinarConsulting

Applying Probity and Integrity Principles in an Evolving Landscape

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.

WebinarConsulting

How to eat an elephant – front line strategies for effective regulatory enforcement 

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

InsightConsultingLegal

Embracing ESG boosts efficiency and innovation and enables agencies to lead by example 

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.

InsightCommercialConsulting

Safe and Responsible Artificial Intelligence

Why does it matter and how to ensure it?

InsightConsulting

Serving Up a Cohesive and Effective Public Service

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.

InsightConsulting

Legislation to Implementation

From legislation to implementation, Anthony Honeyman delves into the strategies for assuring success.

InsightConsulting

Operational Policy and Practice Optimisation

NDIS Safeguards and Quality Commission Operational Policy and Practice Optimisation Project.

Case studyConsulting

Naval Shipbuilding Identity Assurance

Proximity sets a new standard in project implementation working with Auscheck.

Case studyConsulting

Supporting the transformation of the Department of Education to facilitate safer Victorian schools

Case studyConsulting

Strategic Communications and Change Management services to Defence

Case studyConsulting

Establishing a sound bedrock to support Victoria’s improved health infrastructure

Case studyConsulting

Evaluation: A nice to have or a must have?

Best practice evaluation includes many elements, yet few manage to do it well consistently and use the insights for future design.

WebinarCommercialConsulting

Hypo-ethical 4.0: An examination of ethical problems across government + Closing remarks

Dealing with ethical challenges in government can be tricky, but it’s manageable.

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Cyber risk and information security in procurement: Be informed not afraid

Discover how to integrate security into sourcing for improved procurement, contracting, and supply chain practices. 

WebinarCommercialConsulting

Why most change efforts fail and three things you can do to make them succeed

Most change efforts – and many projects – fail due to a lack of successful change management.

WebinarConsulting

Improving federal spending: Agile approaches to procurement

An introduction to how agile methodologies can reshape the federal procurement landscape, driving efficiency while maintaining integrity. 

WebinarCommercialConsulting

Contemporary project management: Keeping pace with an adaptive approach

In today’s fast-paced, high-velocity environment, traditional project management methods may no longer be enough.

WebinarCommercialConsulting

Beyond Utopia: Strategic communications done right

In this session, we look at the role of strategic communication in bridging the gap between government and their disconnected constituents.

WebinarConsulting

Development of a partnership and donations policy framework for the Great Barrier Reef Aquarium

Case studyConsulting

Helping to protect one of our greatest assets – CSIRO

Case studyConsulting

Review of CASA’s regulatory enforcement function to help it soar

Case studyConsulting

Reputation matters: exploring the relationship between strategy, risk and reputation

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Environmental, social and corporate governance: in the government context

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Different projects, same fundamentals: lessons learned around successful project delivery

WebinarCommercialConsulting

The impact of cognitive biases on procurement: how to minimise errors and achieve better procurement outcomes

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Hypo-ethical IV: A panel examination of ethical problems across government

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Effective stakeholder engagement for decision-makers

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Australian sovereign industrial capability II

WebinarCommercialConsulting

Maintaining and preserving your integrity in grants and procurement programs

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Going public with outside views: ideas for the APS from those who have seen both sides

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Sovereign capability and supply chains

WebinarCommercialConsulting

A conversation with Ron Fisher hosted by Greg Divall

PodcastCommercialConsulting

A conversation with Elizabeth Langdon

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

The new high-performance organisation: resetting your organisation post-pandemic

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Hypo-ethical III: ethical problems across government

A panel examination of ethical problems across government.

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Contract management: different perspectives

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

How lawyers & non-lawyers communicate

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Beyond good cop, bad cop: Negotiation strategies and techniques

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

Effective grants administration in uncertain times

WebinarConsultingLegal

Hypo-ethical II (worst.day.ever)

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

How the changing environment is impacting government contracts

WebinarCommercialConsultingLegal

“The dog ate my authenticator!” WHS when working from home

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?

WebinarConsultingLegal

Former CEO of Australia’s Defence Materiel Organisation, joins Proximity!

PodcastCommercialConsulting

DSS National Centre Business Case

Case studyConsulting

Top federal bureaucrat makes the switch to Proximity

PodcastCommercialConsultingLegal

Leading Australian bureaucrat puts retirement on hold to join Proximity

PodcastCommercialConsultingLegal

ATO ICT Contract Models Project

Case studyCommercialConsulting

ATO ‘Big Data’ Strategic Sourcing Project

Case studyCommercialConsultingLegal

Internet Gateway Reduction Project

Case studyCommercialConsultingLegal

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