Strategy & Business Cases

Strategic Case Planning

Developing a strategy establishes the right direction for your organisation and its partners/stakeholders, and helps everyone focus their efforts on getting there.

Sapere provides an objective view of complex issues, providing analytical and other support to make better choices about where, when and how to invest effort and resources.

Our consultants are experienced in the development of Better Business Cases, providing objective analysis in a consistent format to decision-makers.

This allows for better comparability and transparency and enables the government to make smart investment decisions that maximise public value.

What we do

Developing good strategy
  • Analysis of business goals and objectives, to align current practice and performance SWOT and PEST(LE) analysis
  • Environmental scans and evidence reviews
  • Develop and application of prioritisation frameworks
  • Proactive engagement of stakeholders to consider their needs, wants, expertise, stake in the organisation and desired outcomes
  • Develop outcome and monitoring frameworks.
Investment proposals
  • Facilitate Investment Logic Mapping, to develop and document the logic underpinning a potential investment
  • Undertake economic appraisal of potential investment options, using quantitative methods and qualitative methods such as multi-criteria and cost-benefit analysis
  • Develop financial models to demonstrate the financial impact of investment proposals
  • Benefits management planning and modelling.

 

Examples of our work in strategy and business cases

Examples of our work

Governance Framework and Regulatory Improvement

Design and delivery advisory for a program to reduce risk for a maritime regulator. Program design was based on development and agreement of a shared risk model between the regulator, port and industry stakeholders.

Implementation of the Victorian Business Acceleration Fund

Assisting the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance with the delivery of the Victorian Business Acceleration Fund which comprises nearly 100 individual projects aimed at reducing the cost of business and encouraging economic growth.

Major Government Infrastructure Program

Program design for a major, multi-year departmental change program, including development and implementation of required program controls.

Local Government Grants Program Governance Review

Review and recommended improvements to governance through the full lifecycle of grant program design, project selection and allocation through to delivery and benefits realisation.

Major Government Infrastructure Program

Program design for a major, multi-year departmental change program, including development and implementation of required program controls.

Sapere Good Governance Guide

Based on years of project and program assessment, assurance and delivery, the Sapere Good Governance Guide helps establish the right governance and decision making for major initiatives as a way of maximising success and avoiding common challenges that can lead to project failure.

Good Governance Guide
We provide clients with a sound evidential basis to support decision-making in a variety of contexts, conducting sophisticated analysis and modelling support.

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