Our Services
Our services are designed to help you achieve more with less, ensuring maximum value and efficiency.
Our Business Case Services
Digital & ICT Business Cases
Benefits‑led First, Second and Combined Pass business cases for technology‑enabled change. Our co-design approach ensures strong analysis and evidence to support confident investment decisions.
New Policy Proposals (NPPs)
We define the problem, assess policy options, and quantify costs and benefits. We align proposals with government priorities to support strong Budget submissions and successful implementation.
Lean Business Cases
A short, sharp business case for lower-risk, lower-cost proposals. Designed to support faster, evidence-based decisions without unnecessary analysis or documentation.
Regulatory Business Cases
Business cases supporting CAPEX and OPEX investment decisions over a regulatory period, forming part of regulatory submissions to justify expenditure and demonstrate value for money.
Business Case Refresh
A refreshed business case to support ongoing tranche funding decisions. Provides updated scope, costs, risks, and benefits to confirm the initiative continues to deliver value. Designed to support confident delivery without unnecessary rework.
Business Case Support
Supplementary support and training to address capability gaps across costing and financial modelling, case for change, program vision and outcomes, and benefits development and realisation planning.
Why Aclivity?
- Aclivity produces business cases with clear structure, visuals, and logic. We integrate policy, financial, economic, digital, and delivery analysis into a single coherent investment story.
- Co-design brings stakeholders with us, builds shared ownership, and surfaces risks early. The result is stronger, fully supported proposals.
- We take a benefits-led approach that demonstrates measurable public value, aligns with government priorities, and strengthens the case for investment.
- Aclivity business cases are assurance-ready, aligned to Gateway, Digital Assurance, and Investment Oversight Framework requirements. This reduces rework, delays, and approval risk.
- Our structured approach reduces rework, shortens approval cycles, and gives decision makers the evidence they need the first time.
- We support our clients through assurance reviews, central agency engagement, and the approval process, ensuring the case stays strong from drafting to decision.
Our Business Optimisation Services
Process Mapping and Analysis
Applying industry process models to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies of current processes.
Business Process Reengineering
Applying Lean Six Sigma thinking to streamline processes, reduce waste, and improve quality.
Activity Based Costing
Understanding and modelling of service delivery costs to determine the current costs of delivery and identify areas to minimise them.
Organisational Redesign
Restructuring how the agency is organised to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and meet budget constraints.
Why Aclivity?
- Aclivity adopts a process led approach to cost optimisation to determine inefficiencies in process and identify areas to generate value and reduce costs.
- Our people specialise in federal and state government operations and offer sector specific insights to identify areas for cost minimisation and improve service delivery.
- We bring an innovative mindset with respect to cost containment to drive sustainable structural change to reduce cost at the program and/or agency level.
- Adopting an alternative way to address budget imbalance such as potential revenue generation to offset delivery costs.
- Our approach seeks to identify reuse opportunities such as applying existing solutions across different agencies to drive economies of scale and deliver services more efficiently and effectively.
- Our people are Lean Six Sigma qualified, apply global process reference models such as APQC, and utilise contemporary process modelling tools such as Holocentric, ARIS, and Visio.
Our Benefits Management Services
Benefits Maturity Assessment
Provides a portfolio-level perspective on the maturity of Benefits Management practices in part of, or across the whole portfolio.
Benefits Framework Development
Establishes a structured and consistent portfolio-level approach, supported by practical guidance that enables effective benefits-led investment management.
Benefits Realisation Planning
Ensures all key benefits artefacts are developed and integrated into a Benefits Realisation Plan that meets internal frameworks and the whole-of-government Benefits Management Policy.
Benefits Realisation Support
Sets up structured reporting and monitoring for in-flight initiatives so business areas can track progress and formally confirm benefits realisation.
Benefits Health Check
Delivers an independent review that assesses the effectiveness and maturity of Benefits Management practices within a project or program.
Benefits Coaching
Builds the understanding and skills to apply benefits-led thinking with confidence through a range of structured coaching and engagement options.
Why Aclivity?
- As co-authors of DTA's Digital and ICT Benefits Management Policy, we understand the challenges associated with developing compelling New Policy Proposals that clear the hurdles for funding. We work with our clients to meet or exceed these compliance requirements.
- Aclivity prides itself on its deep subject matter expertise in benefits management, delivering engagements at the project, program, portfolio, and whole-of-government levels.
- Through our extensive experience with government, we understand the complexities that agencies must deal with in developing benefit strategies that not only consider traditional efficiency benefits but also deliver business value, and economic and social outcomes.
- Our people are qualified in, and leverage, global reference models such as Managing Benefits™ and PRINCE2® Program and Project Management.
- Our experience, grounded in real-world application of benefits management practices, is based on proven and emerging practices and implementation thought leadership, and has been tested and refined through extensive consultation with state, federal, and international jurisdictions.
- Rated 5 out of 5 by clients for likelihood to recommend, reflecting trust and satisfaction with our delivery and collaboration.
Our Program Office Services
Portfolio Management
Aligning projects and programs with organisational strategy, balancing and prioritising the portfolio to maximise value, and tracking and reporting on portfolio performance.
PMO Establishment
The planning, design, and setup of initiative PMOs and associated functions including planning and execution, governance, change management, risk and issue management, stakeholder management, and benefits realisation.
PMO as a service
Providing an end-to-end program management solution to assist initiatives establish, operate, and optimise PMO functions. Key features of the service includes monitoring and measuring progress against plans and delivering reports.
Why Aclivity?
- Our unique reference model and supporting toolkit combines all essential Portfolio and Program Management Office (PMO) artefacts.
- We offer advisors experienced and certified in leading practice methodologies including PRINCE2®, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®), Managing Benefits™, and Prosci®.
- We have assisted organisations with the management and coordination of projects and programs through expert advice, the application of leading practices and our specialised toolset.
- We have assisted in the establishment of PMO and associated functions, incorporating the design and implementation of governance models and provided PMO support capability as needed.
- Our "PMO on a page" view simplifies documentation and dissemination of key PMO attributes, ensuring project and program managers have a clear and concise roadmap to follow.
Our Program Assurance Services
Embedded assurance as a service
Providing an end-to-end internal assurance solution to assist projects assess confidence, review key activities, confirm milestones, and monitor risks and issues with active participation in governance forums.
Gateway assurance
Assurance that is designed around specific phases of the program and accordingly focuses on the relevant aspects. It assists the SROs in making informed decisions on the progress of the programs.
Delivery Confidence Assessments (DCAs)
Independent assurance to ensure that programs are on track and likely to meet outcomes in accordance with whole-of-government policy requirements.
Health checks
Short and sharp assurance reviews that provide an organisation with a snapshot of the status of a program or project. They can be utilised as a response to specific issues, such as material changes to programs.
Post Implementation Reviews
Independent assessments of programs at their completion to validate outcomes, document the lessons learned and sign off on benefits realised.
Why Aclivity?
- Assurance is in our DNA having delivered over 100 independent Gateway reviews across all levels of government.
- Our assurance services are delivered by experienced practitioners who have delivered large scale ICT programs in government.
- We provide independent assurance services to the private sector to meet regulatory compliance and provide confidence to executive boards.
- We are committed to providing frank and fearless advice to enable program teams to make informed decisions and improve delivery confidence.