Services
Policy
Australian Venture Consultants provides policy analytical and development services to support national and jurisdictional governments in the development and implementation of policy, as well as sector peak bodies, corporations, community organisations and NGOs in the development and prosecution of advocacy for policy change.
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Across all legal, economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects of policy, Australian Venture Consultants applies an evidence-based approach to assessing, developing and supporting the prosecution of policy positions. Deep long-standing international networks in the policy profession, combined with acute political awareness, ensures that Australian Venture Consultants’ clients have access to world-best-practice when considering policy options.
Australian Venture Consultants has a successful track record in policy and advocacy support in sectors as diverse as minerals, energy, agriculture, fisheries and construction industries, natural resources and environmental regulation, royalties and taxation, training and education, innovation, regional development and First Nations economic development.
Strategy
Whether at a sector, organisation or business unit level, strategic planning is a core competency of Australian Venture Consultants.
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Australian Venture Consultants adopts a research and analytical intensive approach to strategic planning, that ensures strategic initiatives are grounded in optimal evidence of likely impact and risk. This ensures that when implemented, strategies can be effectively monitored and adjusted with confidence and comfort that risk mitigation measures will achieve what they are intended to achieve.
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Australian Venture Consultants’ strategy development process is also highly consultative, ensuring that the evidence-base includes tacit knowledge held by key stakeholders and the strategy’s development is inclusive, underpinning ownership of the strategy by those that will be implementing, supporting and affected by it.
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Australian Venture Consultants has developed:
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Sector development strategies - sponsored by governments and industry in various sectors including critical minerals, energy, aquaculture, agriculture, as well as regional infrastructure and development and First Nations economic development.
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Corporate strategies - for small, medium and large enterprises operating in sectors as diverse as ICT, mining and mining services, fisheries and aquaculture, agribusiness, food beverage manufacturing, natural resource management, education and training, ports and multi-modal logistics, energy, tourism and the First Nations sector.
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Organisational strategies - for national, state and local government agencies and instrumentalities, scientific research organisations and collaborations and industry peak bodies.
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Business unit strategies - for academic faculty and government initiatives including strategic research, development and extension plans, professional development programs and commercialisation of intellectual property.
Projects and ventures
Australian Venture Consultants has over a quarter of a century of experience in preparing feasibility studies and venture business plans. Australian Venture Consultants’ deeply analytical approach to clear problem and solution definition, market and competition analysis, capital project planning, operational planning, marketing and sales plans and project and venture financial analysis has seen its work fundamental in investment decision-making within boards and c-suite executive in multinational corporations, SMEs and start-ups, the highest levels of government and NGOs.
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Australian Venture Consultants has prepared feasibility studies and business plans for projects as diverse as shipbuilding, space and defence infrastructure; multi modal logistics and industrial precincts; waste management facilities; energy systems; regional infrastructure; aquaculture and fisheries, livestock and horticultural primary production; downstream food and beverage manufacturing facilities; and training, higher education and research infrastructure and programs.
Australian Venture Consultants also has experience in structuring and establishing governance frameworks for ventures and project managing implementation.
Strategic science and innovation
Australian Venture Consultants has established a strong reputation for working with key stakeholders across industry, NGOs, government and the academy to establish multi-sector, mission oriented formalised research collaborations and to assess and advise on the performance of existing collaborations.
Australian Venture Consultants has prepared strategic research and innovation plans, business and operational plans, governance structuring and resource attraction. Australian Venture Consultants has undertaken initiatives in this regard that have attracted $0.25 billion in new research funds and better coordinated and directed existing funding toward outcomes.
Sectors in which Australian Venture Consultants has undertaken such work includes minerals, marine science, terrestrial biodiversity, carbon sequestration, agriculture, fisheries, space and astronomy, infectious disease, desalination and diversity and inclusion.
Goverance
Drawing on over 25 years of facilitating the development and implementation of policy, strategy and projects and the over 30 years of governance experience of Australian Venture Consultants’ Principal, Russell Barnett, Australian Venture Consultants has earned a reputation for assessing complex governance contexts and issues and developing best practice governance solutions.
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Australian Venture Consultants has undertaken such work across numerous government and NGO organisational and advisory boards, corporate boards and in joint venture and project contexts.