Strategy

Words

Numbers

Partners

Strategy

Solve love helping our clients create a vision for success. We can offer a fresh pair of eyes and a bucket load of great ideas. Simon has successfully facilitated Strategic Planning sessions for a number of large organisations, with the outcomes forming roadmaps for Boards and Executive teams. Simon’s passion and enthusiasm to help his clients achieve great things comes through in the fun and engaging way he works.

Solve love to take a blue-sky approach and to help their clients see new ways of doing things. Anything is possible – you just need to understand what you are getting into and plan for the risks. Our approach is based on a proven risk management approach – what could go wrong, what would the probability, impact and consequences be and what are you going to do to mitigate them. Solve can help you develop a healthy approach to strategy development and risk management to make your organisation a creative, sustainable one.

Words

Both Lesley and Simon have a good way with words!! Solve have a great track record in helping our clients get their ideas down on paper whether it be in the form of a business case, a grant application or a policy document. Solve are able to quickly get to grips with their client’s business, understanding the story that needs to be told and presenting it in a way that is clear, concise and compelling to the reader.

Solve are experienced in the preparation of the Victorian Government’s Department of Treasury and Finance’s BERC (Budget and Expenditure Review Committee) submissions and are experienced in the development of Investment Logic Maps (ILM) – which help to define the proposed investment and build a stronger case. But whatever the format, Solve can help you to articulate the great things you want to achieve!

Numbers

Simon is the ideas and numbers man. He loves nothing more than taking an idea and converting it into a fully-fledged business plan. An analytical thinker and whizz with Excel, he is able to crunch the numbers while still taking a practical perspective about what the numbers mean and how they will be viewed by Boards and funders.

Having sat on Boards and reported to Boards, Simon has a good working knowledge of the metrics that help to measure the health and sustainability of your organisation. Simon is able to support the development of dashboards and other tools to help monitor the performance of a business. Using simple but effective tools he can help clients to keep their finger on the pulse of their organisations.

Partners

Appreciating that people are the key to the success of any business, Solve love to help their clients bring out the business in theirs! Both Simon and Lesley are equally at home on the shop floor as they are in the Boardroom and they love getting to know what makes their clients tick so they can work together to achieve great things.

Simon and Lesley have both held Senior leadership roles and have a wealth of experience in organisational development and change management. They have both been involved in setting up new teams, and reinvigorating established ones. They can do so in a calm and measured way, bringing teams along with them.

In supporting their clients, Solve are experienced at managing a wide range of stakeholders in order to achieve successful outcomes. With an open and collaborative approach, Solve are able to bring together the stakeholders to successfully tackle complex and challenging issues.