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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

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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Some of our recent articles of interest

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How can governments effectively assess and manage climate risk to ensure a sustainable future?

  • Client: Department of Treasury (Western Australia)
Sapere provided expert advice on the design of a Climate Risk Framework for the WA government, exploring options for a staged approach, and aligning with international standards for climate risk disclosure, to support Western Australia's climate resilience efforts.
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Financial management

What if every public sector officer could master financial management?

  • Client: Department of Treasury (Western Australia)
The Financial Management Act 2006 forms the backbone of financial management for the WA Government, yet many public sector officers lacked familiarity with its provisions. In response, the WA Treasury asked Sapere to develop a comprehensive training program to improve practice and behaviour.
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Utility pricing – to block or not to block

Rather than provide a volume discount, some utilities charge a higher rate for greater use. This approach, known as an inclining or rising block tariff, is often advocated as being a fair way to encourage conservation. But is this really the case? This article investigates.
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How low-density housing is making us poorer

Enabling a higher density of businesses and houses can bring many benefits to cities. It makes us as individuals, and as a society, richer – and not only in monetary terms. More choices of where to live, and less land per home, means lower house prices.
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Growing social housing—Building Financial Capacity of Housing Agencies program evaluation

  • Client: Department of Treasury and Finance (Victoria)
The Victorian Treasury offered A$1.1 billion in low-cost, long-term low-interest loans and state guarantees to community housing agencies. Our evaluation of this program managed the complexity of complementary social housing funding and financing programs in our analysis.
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Expanding Victoria’s Real Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) System

  • Client: Victorian Department of Health
SafeScript is the Victorian Government’s RTPM system. It enables prescribing registered medical practitioners, nurse practitioners and dispensing pharmacists to access accurate and up-to-date information regarding a patient’s medication history with respect to specific high-risk medicines in real time.
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The economic benefits of a circular economy in Auckland

  • Client: Sustainable Business Network
This report provides a view on the potential economic benefits of a more circular economy for Auckland. It has been commissioned by the Sustainable Business Network to inform its report on the circular economy opportunity for Auckland.
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The emissions footprint of broadband in New Zealand

  • Client: Chorus
This paper provides a first assessment of the emissions footprint of the current New Zealand fibre network, with a focus on internet provision to households and small to medium-sized businesses.
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