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Helping big business unlock the potential with tailored business solutions

I am working with Corporate organisations who have focus on core business strength and consistent top-line and bottom-line results, and returns to shareholders.

I see the CEOs and their teams revisiting the perennial issues of strategies and structure to develop a portfolio of priority initiatives that will deliver, all while the marketplace continues to watch expectantly. I am often helping somewhere with the delivery!

Here are some examples of my more recent working relationships that have all delivered results.

Iluka Resources
Big Business Resource - Margin Enhancement Project
Stepped into an established mentor / support role for South West Mining and Mine Planning teams. Required quick establishment of working relationships with people across the business in order to deliver results.

Alcoa World Alumina
Big Business Review - Regional Procurement Audit
Led an audit team review of internal controls across the Regional Procurement function in Australia . Required coordinated fieldwork, explanation of findings, stakeholder management, closing presentation delivery and preparation of executive report for senior management and to Board level.

Alcoa World Alumina
Big Business Review - Internal Control Self Assessment
Led a review of internal controls across Alcoa's Farmlands Operations in WA. Required review of prior year's results and management of test cycle prior to scheduled audit. An assessment on the impact of Sarbanes Oxley was required.

Woodside Petroleum
Big Business Review - Budget & Forecast Team Professional Day Facilitated Session
Developed and delivered a motivational and experiential Life & Work Balance session which set the scene for the annual team planning activity.

Foster's Group, through The Faculty Management Consultants
Big Business Resource - Procurement Function Integration Process
Developed and delivered a toolkit to enable the global procurement team to measure bottomline performance following the Southcorp acquisition in mid-2005.
Required quick establishment of working relationships with key people in other functional groups (Finance, Corporate Project Office) in order to deliver results. Also entailed management of the Scorecard Process and provision of 'first call' mentor / support role for Global Procurement Team.

corporate business solutions

Having grown up in the corporate world, Lisa is very familiar with the machinations of big business. She loves to dabble in select big business scenarios where she feels she can truly add value for a business manager.

big business resource

For big business managers that need to extend their organisational reach but not overextend themselves, a well skilled and well versed senior management resource available to you for a limited duration

You have direct access to a sharp commercial resource with senior management experience who is prepared to work in a hands-on help mode, and needs little oversight. This is rare! This 'body shop' offering is not typical in the consulting world.

Having been a customer who needed to pay consultants to deliver (in a former life!), I was accustomed to meeting with consulting hierarchy (a senior associate or managing partner) to nut out scope detail, and then working with their graduates (and inevitably in most cases – training them) in the detail to deliver my desired result. Often what I needed was an extension of myself, not someone that required oversight. That was hard to buy and those peer resources even harder to find!

End result, I still love to work hands on, and I'm happy to work as an extension of your role for you and with your team on your turf to deliver results. I can step effortlessly into functional roles, as well as a mentor / support role. My motto is to work to ensure 'no surprises' for my corporate employer - one of my early bosses etched that delivery requirement into my brain (thanks Dave)!!

Contact Lisa to explore the potential to use her as your own resource to extend your big business organisational reach.

big business review

A professional service option for big business managers that need to identify and resolve an issue or issues on the run, a well credentialed senior management resource stands ready to provide an assessment of an issue area and deliver resolution suggestions

Lisa is well credentialed, qualified and able to provide professional review of a problem area in your workplace and delivery of written recommended solutions - whether they be a quick-fix and/or lasting solutions. Contact Lisa to explore the potential to use businessbalance® for your big business issue reviews.

The big business areas I choose to work in include:

Area	Sub-Area
Vision & Mission and Strategic Plans	Team Vision & Mission Statements Team Project Charters Team value sets Team Strategies & Business Plans
Accounting & Finance	Financial Position Management Reporting Business Advice delivery Cost Reduction / Margin Enhancement /Scorecard programs Capital project evaluations & justifications
Governance / Internal Audit	Internal Control systems Internal Control Self Assessment management methodologies Internal Control test plans (self assessment) Application of Sarbanes-Oxley Risk Assessment for functional groups
Procurement	Contracts, spends and strategic positioning Proposed tenders, tender submissions and evaluation methodologies Contractor management & performance Capital project management & performance
Business Improvement Methodologies	Toyota Production System/Six Sigma/ Motorola tools & techniques to deliver a successful outcome Process mapping & documentation of risks and internal controls Project management skills