Our Experience

SAGE NETWORK EXPERIENCE

Our approach is tried and tested. We know it has stood the test of time because we can see the impact years later.

Our portfolio of work includes both longer term projects that span strategy to execution — as well as shorter, but meaningful engagements where
clients brought us in to quickly address a pressing need.

AI Governance Frameworks

The Sage Network team are experts at implementing fit-for-purpose governance frameworks that reflect your organisational appetite, technical maturity and current best practices.
Designed and consulted on AI Governance and Ethics frameworks for Not-for-Profits, Regulatory Bodies and Medical Research. Designed transition to the cloud assessment frameworks for highly regulated sectors such as financial services.

Portfolio Design & Management

Designed project and change portfolio’s that reflect strategic goals in a way that ensured investment in achievable initiatives to deliver maximum return. Review current and proposed projects for prioritisation, achievability and realistic impact.
Worked with financial services, education institutions, not-for-profits establishing portfolios of projects and PMOs from ground up, developing and assessing business cases, working with business, technology and strategy areas to develop delivery plans that return value early and often and incrementally build capability.

Emerging Technology Assessment

Constantly monitoring emerging technologies to assess how an organisation can adapt and integrate technology to their best advantage. Undertook business and systems analysis to ensure investments in technology add true business value rather than add complexity.
Assessed organisational readiness and feasibility for adopting technologies such as the cloud, artificial intelligence, automation and business intelligence. Have delivered board endorsed technology road-maps for financial services, medium size enterprises and not-for-profits to deliver improvements in resilience, security, scalability and increase employee and customer satisfaction.

Risk
Management

Manage delivery of project goals within highly regulated industries.
In banking, insurance, wealth management, super, social services and defence undertake risk, legislation and regulatory assessments with business stakeholders to plan to put appropriate controls and mitigations in place. Prepare new technology or customer service cases for APRA reviews. Deliver Defence technology to Defence software procurement standards.

Procurement & Vendor Management

Run procurement exercises and design ongoing vendor management frameworks. Work with the business from requirements building, through to options analysis and procurement activities.
Develop all aspects of procurement process and delivery for real estate project management, software-as-a-service, partner outsourcing and consultancy tenders.

Organisational
Design

Consult with executives, board and staff to develop organisational redesigns that empowers departments or organisation to be future ready. Looking at current and future capabilities and experience to develop structures, transition plans and communications activities with the business.
Led organisation design activities ranging from whole of business through to senior executive teams and department redesign around functional capabilities in both commercial and not-for-profit spaces.

Change
Management

Prepare organisations for significant transformations by developing change management strategies that increase employee engagement and create clarity through times of ambiguity. Undertake change, training and communication planning from early strategy through to post-delivery. Develop change strategies that build trust between the executive, board and teams.
Significant experience in architecting strategy re-sets, adopting disruptive technologies, software implementations, organisational mergers, division divestments, and digital, cloud and analytics transformations.

Optimisation & Process Improvement

Bring a multi-stakeholder lens to process optimisation to ensure improvements in efficiency, customer satisfaction and accuracy. Either through identifying alternative technology, simplifying process design or challenging current ways.
Led optimisation projects to redesign for customer experience and sales funnels, financial services products, governance processes, project portfolios and risk management capabilities.

“What makes Sam very successful in delivering transformations is her genuine approach to supporting people through technology changes across the organisation.”

— CEO, YWCA AUSTRALIA