GOVERNMENT
Delivering Continuous Improvement
Designed and embedded a practical performance management approach that helped council leaders focus on the right measures, improving operational insight and performance outcomes.
SUMMARY
A new approach to portfolio management
With the stewardship of over $100M of infrastructure projects and a strong commitment to deliver value for its community, a South Australian Council engaged Ground Effects to strengthen how it understood and managed performance.
Working with leaders and teams across the organisation, we identified the activities and processes most critical to effective delivery and mapped how they operated in practice. We then developed a tailored performance framework that connected these critical processes with meaningful measures and the organisational data needed to track them.
The result was a clearer view of operational performance, giving leaders better insight into core activities, where attention was needed and where opportunities existed to improve performance and value delivery.

GM Strategic Projects and Assets
"The workshops themselves helped my Managers to understand their business better, and I feel like we are looking at the right information through Ground Effects tailored approach. It has been a valuable engagement for us.”
SUMMARY
A new approach to portfolio management
With the stewardship of over $100M of infrastructure projects and a strong commitment to deliver value for its community, a South Australian Council engaged Ground Effects to strengthen how it understood and managed performance.
Working with leaders and teams across the organisation, we identified the activities and processes most critical to effective delivery and mapped how they operated in practice. We then developed a tailored performance framework that connected these critical processes with meaningful measures and the organisational data needed to track them.
The result was a clearer view of operational performance, giving leaders better insight into core activities, where attention was needed and where opportunities existed to improve performance and value delivery.
"The workshops themselves helped my Managers to understand their business better, and I feel like we are looking at the right information through Ground Effects tailored approach. It has been a valuable engagement for us.”
GM Strategic Projects and Assets

CLIENT
South Australian Local Council
CAPABILITY AREA
System and Process Design, Operational Performance