For Boards, Chairs, CEOs and executive teams

A Board-ready digital strategy pack and a decision pathway, within 60 days of start.

Costed options in Board language, the trade-offs laid out, and a clear pathway to the decision your Board has to make.

Emergent is a vendor-neutral, technology-agnostic management consultancy. We have worked with many top vendors across the technology stack. We do not sell software and we take no commission.

Inside the pack
A clear read of where your technology stands today
Costed options, with the trade-offs laid out in Board language
A roadmap with the decision points marked
A governance model with decision rights named
The decision pathway: what the Board is being asked, and when
Anthony Butler, Founder and Managing Director.Read the transcript

From the founder

Technology should let the organisation run on your judgement, and serve the people it exists for.

Run effectively, at scale
Technology that lets the organisation run well and efficiently as it grows, rather than adding people to hold it together.
Great outcomes for the people you serve
The point of the systems is the people who use your products and services. Efficiency is how you afford to serve them well.
The potential is real, and it is now
What technology can do for an organisation has changed more in the last few years than in the twenty before. Most organisations are running on the old ceiling.
Executives need the organisation to run on their judgement, not their presence
It is possible. Not by heroics, and not by another system nobody uses, but by aligning people, processes and technology on purpose.

What it costs to leave it another year

Decisions

Every quarter the Board waits for numbers it can trust is a quarter of decisions made on instinct.

People

Your best people spend their week working around systems instead of doing the job you hired them for.

Growth

Each new site or service adds cost faster than it adds margin, because nothing is repeatable yet.

After the 60 days

What comes next depends on what the Board decides.

The pack sets out the options and the pathway. Which path you take, and whether we are part of it, is a decision for the Board once the evidence is in front of it. Everything we do after that has a named timeframe and a named owner on every project.

Industries we work in

Every offer is built to apply across all of them.

Aged care, disability, community services and healthcare
Construction and engineering
Education and early childhood
Professional services
Retail and hospitality
Logistics and transport
Manufacturing
Mining, oil, gas and utilities
Banking and financial services

Across these industries, we have supported clients with a wide range of strategies and technologies, from digital strategies and roadmaps through to the selection, implementation, integration and review of ERP and finance, HR and payroll, client management, and data and reporting systems.

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How working with us starts

1

Tell us what you are dealing with

A short form, about three minutes. A senior consultant reads every one.

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2

A Strategy Call, 30 or 45 minutes

If it looks like a fit, you receive a booking link and choose a 30 or 45 minute slot with a senior consultant. We listen first. No solutioning, no pitch, and we will say plainly if we are not the right fit.

3

A fixed-timeframe project

A named outcome, a named timeframe, defined inclusions and exclusions, and one senior owner accountable to you.

4

LevelUp™ after the project

Flexible access to advanced skills to keep improving the technology and strengthening the organisation.

Use these whether or not we ever work together

Practical tools built from our engagements. Each takes less than an hour and works in any organisation.

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The Board's digital investment questions

The questions directors should be able to answer before funding a technology program. Use them at your next Board or committee meeting.

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Decision rights worksheet

Map which decisions sit with you, which you share, and which you have quietly been carrying for others.

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Vendor contract red flags

The clauses that cost organisations most after signing, and what to ask before you do.

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Go-live readiness checklist

The decisions that move a go-live date, and when each has to be made.

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Why good software doesn't meet expectations

A self-scored read of each core system, resolving to keep, fix or replace, and what is holding it back.

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Ready for an organisation that runs on your judgement?

A Strategy Call with a senior consultant, 30 or 45 minutes, whichever suits the discussion. No pitch, no software, and we will tell you if we are not the right fit.

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