Performance & Governance
Build a healthy enterprise performance and governance culture, deliver outcomes and improve transparency and trust.
Shape Your Agency's Future
Strong performance and governance practices drive value for organisations. It helps secure outcomes and improve transparency and trust. This is especially important for public sector agencies that are subject to intense public and political scrutiny, often have multiple stakeholders, and are under increasing pressure to meet growing citizen expectations.
Our experience has shown that robust enterprise performance practices are the cornerstone to delivering outcomes for the Commonwealth. A robust approach means you deliver better outcomes for government, clearly articulate the unique value of your agency and drive the right behaviours. We support agencies to design and implement enterprise performance and governance practices to build a healthy performance culture.
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Building a Healthy Performance Culture
How leaders can build a healthy performance culture to deliver greater agency impact. Four things you will discover by joining the webinar:
Performance Frameworks How to build a mature enterprise performance framework so that your agency is ready for ongoing ANAO performance statement audits
Transparent Culture How to foster an open and transparent culture so risks and resources are effectively allocated and managed
Corporate Plan How to ensure your agency’s corporate plan becomes the nexus of your performance culture
Reporting Impact How to use both data and evaluation activity to help monitor, review and report your agency’s impact to external stakeholders
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Leaders in Enterprise Performance & Governance
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Who's your Chief Data Minimisation Officer (CDMO)? A Thought Experiment...
Imagine this. You’re at a barbeque. And someone asks – So, who’s your CDMO? You say – Our what? What’s a CDMO? Your new BBQ mate says – Ah… CDMO stands for Chief Data Minimisation Officer. Doesn’t your company have one? You respond – Ah, no... So, what exactly does your CDMO do? With a bemused look, your BBQ friend replies – Well, they manage our data assets, review data inventories and ensure that any data, if it hits its use-by-date, gets destroyed, or temporarily stored in low-cost encrypted platforms.
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The Future Buyer: How AI Could Redefine Procurement
This article explores how AI could reshape the role of the procurement professional—not by replacing them, but by expanding their purpose. We consider three possible shifts: the evolution of procurement as a strategic function, the partnership between humans and machines, and the challenge of embedding ethics and trust in AI-enabled processes.
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From military leader to Defence consultant: A conversation with Synergy Group Melbourne Partner Mark Bainbridge
At Synergy Group, we’re known for delivering impactful solutions to government. Our 25-year legacy is underpinned by bringing in consultants with deep domain expertise. Mark Bainbridge, a Partner in our Melbourne office, is the perfect example of our people having a strong grasp on the sector in which they are working. Before stepping into consultancy, Mark spent his career in the Australian Army, climbing the ranks to become a distinguished military leader in the special forces.
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Dying on the Hill of (Privacy) Principles
It’s Thursday and you’re looking forward to an hour of kayaking on the weekend – and that’s after an estimated 17.6 hours of ferrying kids to part-time jobs, catchups and parties. Instead, you’re hit with ‘Propulsion Failure.’ This isn’t a euphemism, but rather a warning light telling you to glide your car to the curb. Cut to: Wednesday. You’ve forgone the kayaking, but the child ferrying continues apace. Many thanks to the parents-in-law for the loaner, but you’re still without a replacement car.
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Bringing It Home: What My Time in Europe Taught Me About Sport, Law, and What Comes Next for Australia
It’s a rare employer who supports their newly admitted solicitor to take a sabbatical overseas— to explore new professional opportunities, work on their own business, and return with fresh insights and renewed purpose. But that’s exactly what Bobbi Campbell and the team at Synergy Law did for me.
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Efficiency in Commonwealth Contracting? You bet!
Not only is the Commonwealth Government a big spender, but it has an almost incalculable number of suppliers and stakeholders across a diverse range of activities – from purchasing submarines and warships for the ADF, art for the National Gallery and underwriting massive infrastructure projects. The list could go on and on – considering the Federal Government awards about 70,000 contracts annually, valued at between $50 billion to $70 billion.
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