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Bob Cavanagh

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(See also Facilitation - detailed experience)

  • SPARC
    - developed core material for a strategic and business planning guideline manual for NZ sports organisations - 5 days
  • SPARC
    - in a team of two researched and reported on events, products and sponsorship commercialisation opportunities for Gymnastics NZ - 18 days.
  • Identity Services
    - developed the core of the business case for fees review for national identity documents - 15 days.
  • Historic Places Trust
    - advice on designing of an effectiveness and efficiency review - 2 days.
  • State Services Commission
    - designed the crown entity monitoring process for SSC in regard to the Leadership Development Centre (formerly MDC) - 2 days.
  • Inland Revenue
    - assisting the IR enterprise technical architecture project team prepare their final report - 10 days.
  • Management Development Centre
    - developed scenarios and rationale for allocation of levies and user pays services across government departments for new Leadership Development Centre - 2 days.
  • Ministry of Education
    - review of how multiple government agencies worked together to resolve a high-profile critical incident, and develop a draft framework for future cooperation - 5 days.
  • ACC
    - high-level feasibility study into development of a new service based on direct employer subsidy - 3 days.
  • Quotable Value New Zealand
    - data integrity review including high-level process maps, key requirements of different divisions of QV and root cause analysis of problems - 10 days.
  • Quotable Value New Zealand
    - project management of the QV end of bringing ANZ from a terminal to web-based access to QV systems - 5 days.
  • Management Development Centre
    - wrote draft business plan for a revamped MDC as part of new government senior leadership and management development strategies - 8 days.
  • Phae Group (on behalf of a university and a major polytechnic)
    - assisted with interviews and analysis in a feasibility study into collaborative e-learning nitiatives among NZ tertiary institutions - 2 days.
  • Quotable Value New Zealand
    - developed high-level process maps, identified key requirements of different divisions of QV and identified main causes of data integrity problems together with their impact - 10 days.
  • Woodnet Works Ltd
    - two months with the directors of a new internet-based venture including the development of a business plan and the selection of joint venture partners.
  • AXA New Zealand
    - worked closely with the new GM Sales to design and implement a reporting framework for a weekly and monthly performance management balanced scorecard.
  • Tranz Rail Limited
    - strategic purchasing project - worked for six months in team of two to rationalise supplier agreements across a range of service areas particularly those that are purchased by multiple business groups and locations.
    - contracts were agreed and processes reviewed to support their implementation, providing on-going savings of many millions of dollars.
  • AMP
    - co-developed and ran a quality improvement training programme to support a new initiative involving a new team of 30 staff.
  • ICI
    - Worked across all divisions of ICI as the part-time role Quality Improvement Coordinator, trained in approaches of W. Edwards Deming.
 
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