APERGY SERVICES
Outsourced CEO Service
Apergy has consultants who have experience at senior positions like Chief Executive Officers and General Managers. Employing people like this on a permanent basis can be very expensive and out of reach for many businesses, nor do they need it on a full time basis. Start-up businesses often find it difficult - needing this level of expertise but not having the revenue flows to support hiring the people they need at this level. Apergy can assist by bringing in one of its appropriately experienced consultants that can supplement your management team on a part time or permanent basis, until your organisation is in a position to source its own senior level of management to take over. Apergy can even help you with the selection of these people so that you get the right fit for your organisation.
Whole of Business Consulting
Apergy offers consulting services across the full spectrum of business activity. Capitalising on its consultants experience in Chief Executive and General Management positions, Apergy can bring this experience to bear on your business no matter how big or small. This offers smaller businesses the opportunity to benefit from knowledge and experience that they would not normally have available to them. Apergy can use its experience to assist you in most areas of your business, simply contact us to find out how.
Interim Managers
Interim managers are typically hired for one to nine months and help organisations undergoing major change, trying to implement a critical strategy, a specific project to manage, or when looking to plug a critical management gap. An organisation may choose to obtain interim management because the role in question is not a permanent position or a permanent executive/manager cannot be found quickly enough. Whatever the reason, interim managers offer major benefits:
- Speed – they are available to start in days – with a minimum of recruitment and termination formalities.
- Experience – interim managers are overqualified for the work.
- Results – they are used to being judged by results so they know how to deliver.
- Knowledge transfer – interim managers will transfer a huge amount of skill, contacts and experience to your team which will remain long after they have left.
- Objectivity – while sensitive to the company's ethos, interim managers will not be constrained by company politics, personalities or protocols.
- Delivery – interim managers can not only act as counsel to the Board – they will roll up their sleeves and deliver the strategy, too.
- Focused – interim managers can be assigned a critical task and their performance measured against it.
Business Start-ups
Apergy has assisted a number of organisations in start from initial planning stages to coordinating the path into expansion. Apergy also can produce the start up documentation like business plans, information memorandums, strategic growth plans and financial forecasts. It has experience at working with the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board. This service can be combined with Apergy's Outsourced CEO Service which gives a new organisation the senior management it needs to get going and makes it available at an early stage in the business development to assue it is on the right path from its inception.
Government
Apergy’s consultants have a wealth of experience at working within and to government departments. The sensitivities and responsibilities that apply to government are understood and Apergy’s consultants are positioned to ensure these special needs are given the priority they demand. Apergy’s government services consulting expertise covers advising on and implementing organisational reform, improving existing government services, planning, outsourcing, modernising government projects, contracting and developing government people and their leadership capability to deliver.
Apergy consultants bring experience and expertise from industry, government, the armed services and a variety of other backgrounds, to enhance its government consulting capability. They will work with client staff at all levels, from the frontline to Ministers, knowing what will work and how to make it happen.
Defence
Apergy’s consultants have a wealth of experience at working within and in supplying services to Defence. It understands the needs of Defence and can provide consultants especially experienced in this field. Modern Defence contracting requirements are understood as is collaborative contracting and the special requirements therein. Apergy’s consultants are experienced at Defence tendering and in the development and assessment of tenders.
Recent challenges in the defence sector require governments and industry to collaborate more closely than ever. Apergy has relationships and knowledge across the defence sector, strong commercial experience and insight into the strategic drivers for both the government and industry. They have played intrinsic roles in a number of highly effective Defence partnering relationships.
Strategy Development
Some people refer to it as seeing "the big picture." Others talk of the ability to identify opportunities, to discover new directions, to redefine boundaries. However it is described, it all comes down to vision, and specific, practical plans to bring a vision into reality. At Apergy, we help CEOs create a clear picture of their external environment marketplace and competitors and define their strategic direction.
In times of uncertainty and volatile change, a clear corporate vision is even more important. Strategy and tactics need to be flexible so they can change with swings in geopolitics and the global economy, but the vision must be steadfast and unswerving. Apergy builds strategic models that continuously interact with the external environment and feed adaptations to evolve the plan to assure its relevance. This allows the organisation to think strategically and act tactically in accord with the strategic intent. Global competition, corporate restructuring and the impact of technology on products and services are forcing many organisations to review their strategies. However, strategy development is too often report-based and driven more by aspiration than by thorough analysis, resulting in a strategy that is both inappropriate and unachievable.
Apergy helps its clients to decide where and how to compete, ensuring that they target the most valuable markets and manage their businesses to maximise shareholder value.
Strategic Planning
Apergy works side by side with top management to clarify issues, refine ideas, and give them shape. Our strength comes from the ability to understand things from a broader perspective – to look at markets and trends, at competition and customers, at the organisation itself – and then use what we learn to ensure that the future direction can be successfully implemented.
The result of this process is a plan and approach that can help ensure that the company’s strategy can be turned into actions and accountabilities and evolve to meet the demands of a dynamic marketplace. Apergy helps its clients define strategic priorities, allocate resources and define their organisation to ensure they remain relevant. It develops strategic plans that are capable of adapting and keeping the organisation relevant and enable it to react to its external environments.
Strategic Implementation
Too often an organisation prepares a strategic plan and ends the strategy process there. Apergy completes the strategy process by assuring the nexus between Strategic development, planning and implementation. Successful execution demands a clear implementation plan supported by executive leadership. Assisted by Apergy the client team develops short and medium term strategic initiatives and a supporting program structure, including specific definition, resource allocation, timelines and performance measures.
Global competition, corporate restructuring and the impact of technology on products and services are forcing many organisations to review their strategies. However, strategy development is too often report-based and driven more by aspiration than by thorough analysis, resulting in a strategy that is inappropriate, unachievable and stagnant. Apergy implementation models are adaptive, maintain awareness of the organisations contexts and keep the strategies and therefore the organisation relevant.
Leadership & Management Training
Leadership underpins all successful organisations. The quality of an organisation can be measured by the quality of its leaders. Apergy’s consultants are experienced leaders in their own right, and because leadership is a personal issue, they work closely with leaders to refine their skills and deal with issues facing them. Training a group or an individual can be arranged. Apergy’s experience suggests that learning to be an effective leader is a life long journey and recommends regular leadership training session to support this development. Apergy can tailor leadership training to suit leaders from the strategic to the tactical level depending upon your needs.
In today’s world the best leaders still need sound management skills to keep them on top. Apergy can deliver management training that is based on modern best practices but cuts through the fads and focuses on the real skills needed to manage the effort of an organisation. Apergy can also work with management teams to help them become more efficient as a group. Whether dealing with short-range tactical challenges, long-term strategic issues or sorting through options and clarifying direction, we know that valuable time and resources are often wasted when the management team is not functioning correctly. Often the best recourse in this situation is to use one of Apergy’s consultants to bring the team together.
Leader Mentoring
In a competitive, changing environment, employees and leaders may feel they know how to accomplish their job. The opportunity to accelerate results in the face of tenacious competitors, dynamic times and discerning customers requires more than the ordinary. By isolating specific behaviours and implementing a structured approach to change through coaching, extraordinary results are achieved. The best way to develop as a leader is to have an accomplished leader available, who can offer the benefit of their experience and offer the kind of discreet advice not normally available within the organisation.
Problem Solving
In the dynamic business environment an organisation will often face a problem it cannot deal with. Here, a fresh perspective is usually the only way to get through it. Apergy has developed its own processes to help an organisation solve difficult problems. Apergy’s consultants have the ability to work with key personnel and crystallise the issue and then develop practical methodologies to lead to a solution.
The basic concept of any problem solving method is to use a number of structured steps to arrive accurately at the true source of the problem in order to eliminate it. 80-90% of all problems can be eliminated by training and implementing basic problem solving methods for the frontline (operators, craftspeople, and first line supervision). The remaining 10-20% of the problems that are harder to solve should go through more structured problem solving where more people are involved. The second level of problem solving requires facilitator support. Apergy can provide experienced facilitators for this support.
Decision Making and Implementation
From time to time, all organisations across all industries face difficult and complex questions - from deciding strategic direction in a tough economy, to making the best use of limited resources. The benefits of making the right decision can be enormous and the potential downside implications equally large and not easily corrected.
Apergy brings a rigorous analytical approach to resolve this decision-making complexity. Our techniques ensure the various factors affecting a decision are brought together, possible options are properly developed and analysed to determine the most suitable. Once a course of action has been developed its implementation needs to be planned, communicated and understood by all the parties involved in making the decision and effecting its implementation.
Contract Mobilisation
Apergy has experience at mobilising large Government contracts. This experience covers all aspects of mobilisation and is based on several successful mobilisations. Apergy consultants can assist you plan and execute your mobilisation.
Small Business Solutions
Small business faces very different challenges. Apergy offers significant benefits to Small Businesses by bringing to them many of the tools and experiences in use in larger organisations. Apergy takes the best and most appropriate of these and tailors solutions to meet the specific needs of each individual Small Business.
Locum Management
Not all businesses can afford the luxury of extra management to cover the business when key personnel go on leave or are absent for other reasons. Apergy can assist keeping the business running by putting in consultants with sound general management skills to keep the business running effectively without changing its operation. Whilst in place the consultant will develop a report for you on your business to give you an external perspective on your business.
Business Reviews
Often in business it is difficult to ‘see the woods for the trees’. Even a healthy business can benefit from another opinion from time to time. Apergy can provide an external review and a fresh perspective of you business to help keep you on track. Of course if there is a specific issue you would like reviewed Apergy will provide a consultant to meet your needs.
Risk Management
Apergy provides consultants to bring your business into compliance with the Australian Standard ASNZ 4360 - Risk Management. This Standard may be applied to a very wide range of activities, decisions or operations of any public, private or community enterprise, group or individual. This Standard specifies the elements of the risk management process. It is generic and independent of any specific industry or economic sector and Apergy will adapt it to suit you. The design and implementation of the risk management system will be influenced by the varying needs of your organisation, its particular objectives, its products and services, and the processes and specific practices employed. In a world which is becoming even more volatile, the risk management function can become a valuable differentiator and business partner.
Disaster & Emergency Planning
Apergy has a number of Defence trained planners with the skills necessary to identify the specifics necessary to assure effective disaster and emergency planning. Thorough and adaptive plans provide the flexibility to meet emerging situations and adapt to meet the specifics of the unknown. Regular reviews by Apergy keep these plans relevant and ready for execution.
Disaster & Emergency Management
Once an organisation is faced with a disaster or emergency it may not necessarily have the leadership or management team to deal with it. In a disaster or emergency the core business of the organisation needs to be protected. This is rightfully the purview of the regular management team. Apergy can provide augments to the organisation’s management team to supplement their handling of the situation or to take control of it and let the regular management team get it with its core business. Of course if Apergy has been part of the disaster and emergency planning then these options will already be developed.
Security Reviews, Planning and Management
Apergy has a number of Defence trained planners with the skills necessary to identify the specifics necessary to assure effective security planning and management. Thorough and adaptive plans provide the flexibility to emerging situations and adapt to meet the specifics of the unknown. Regular reviews by Apergy keep these plans relevant and ready for execution. Security reviews also ensure that the physical and non-physical aspects of the organisation are appropriately protected and providing the deterrents and defences necessary to assure protection of its assets.
Project Planning and Project Management
Successful organisations depend on the delivery of projects and programs – either as part of their delivery business or to achieve a greater vision. Getting program and project management wrong often means poor performance, wasted investment and unrealised ambition. Many organisations struggle to get it right. Getting it right relies on recognising that no one business is the same. It is not simply a matter of more process or methodology – you have to tune your approach to the organisation and its ambition.
Apergy has a number of Master Project Directors at its disposal, who can be used to assist you will the early stages of developing your project, work with one that is having problems or simply review your program or projects.
Meeting Facilitation
Apergy can facilitate a meeting, conference or training session for you. Contact Apergy to discuss the details.
Negotiation Planning & Preparation
Good negotiated outcomes do not happen by chance - they take careful planning and preparation. Apergy can bring its experience to you to assist in planning and preparing your next negotiation. Being thoroughly prepared for a negotiation makes all the difference in defining and then achieving your required result. Imagine going in to your next negotiation with the confidence of a well throughout plan behind you – being confident of a good result or knowing when to withdraw, and having prepared strategies for contingencies that may arise during the negotiation. Apergy can prepare you.
Business Expansion
Expanding your business can appear a daunting task. You know your business and you know when it is time to begin an expansion. There are many pitfalls and additional risks in expanding your business and it is prudent to get it right the first time. Equally you cannot take your eye of the ball in running your existing business. IN many cases the existing business is funding the expansion - so it has to continue to perform. Apergy can assist in many ways to effectively expand and will work with you to help you plan and execute your expansion.
Business Turnaround
Every Business has its ups and downs. Often when a business is not performing those involved in the business have their hands full with the day to day running of the business and cannot see a way to get the business back on track. Apergy can bring an independent and clear head to look at the issues and help you plan and put in place a course of action to get your business back on track. Apergy can put in place profit improvement programs and other mechanisms to get the business back on track.
Business Plans
Every serious business needs a business plan. Some simply need a plan to keep their bank happy; others use it as a medium to drive their business; some want something in between. Whatever your purpose Apergy can produce the plan to suit your needs. Simple business plans can be put in place reasonably quickly. More complex plans take experience and commitment to develop so that they do not end up like many business plans – on the shelf gathering dust. Apergy can facilitate the development of a business plan that can be the blue print for running your business. Using its unique business planning processes it can develop a plan that will be reactive to change and remain relevant and get your business where you want it to be.
Business Documentation & Procedures
Apergy maintains a comprehensive schedule of policies, documents and procedures that have wide applicability. A complete set of policies and procedures including Employee manuals etc can be produced for your business to keep you compliant. Apergy can provide an off the shelf solution or tailor one to suit the needs of your organisation.