Wairua Consulting works alongside organisations to mentor, facilitate, develop and realise real strategic and tactical advantage. We work with organisations ranging from long-established multinationals to start-ups. Our experience covers government agencies, local government, banking and finance, information technology, telecommunications, health care and education.

Why not let our expertise guide you through transformation and change? We help you to focus on maximising the effectiveness of people, processes and technology.

eDemocracy and eGovernment
Our experience in e-Democracy and e-Government makes us the ideal partner if you need to develop effective strategies to increase participation in civil society and democratic process, carry out consultation and engage stakeholders. We can help you develop and deploy strategic and policy initiatives that implement effective eDemocracy and Government.

Understanding your stakeholders
A key part of any strategic planning exercise is understanding your stakeholders. Download "Defining Your Stakeholders", Wairua Consulting's quick guide to defining and positioning stakeholders for organisations and projects (297K PDF).

Technology alignment and governance
As technology becomes more critical to business success, it is important to put in place clear governance structures. Aligning technology with business goals helps ensure that your investment in IT is effective.

Project management
Our proven track record and experience of projects across a number of industries means that Wairua Consulting can effectively manage your projects. Our expertise lies in connecting people, processes and technology and we're highly effective in applying practical risk and change management practices.

Although we are able to base our project management processes on experience in formal methodologies (Including PMBOK and Prince), we're only too well aware that every project is unique. We bring with us a grounding in best practice and the experience to be adaptable to every situation, organisation and culture.

Strategy and policy development

Maximise the effectiveness of people, processes and technology by taking a strategic view. Ensure that policy reflects advances in technology and demographics and that strategy inherently reflects a reality grounded in what your stakeholders want.

Wairua Consulting develops position papers that address areas such as community ICT, broadband, mental health and migrant and refugee issues so that decision makers can effectively gauge the strategic value and policy implications.

Effective use of ICT

We can help you to understand the significance of and value offered by broadband, community ICT facilities, such as telecentres, ICT demand aggregation strategies, e-Government, e-Democracy, ICT policy, public-private partnerships and multi-stakeholder partnerships:

Wairua Consulting developed the Digital City Strategy, a first for Waitakere City. By painting the big picture and linking various groups together, this strategy represents a multi-stakeholder approach to whole-of-community solutions that harness new ICTs for the benefit of all.

Wairua Consulting transforms processes to take advantage of new technologies. Technology is a tool and we aim to ensure that its use meets the needs of all of your stakeholders. Our expertise lies in aligning technology to strategy/policy. In government and community settings, we focus on ICT as an enabler for active participation in civic, democratic and economic life for individuals, communities and business.

"[Wairua Consulting's] 5-stage model has provided an excellent framework for discussion at Cape Gateway, to help us understand information flows and where our different constituent communities are in terms of ICT maturity. Most interesting has been the realisation that ICT maturity is not necessarily a linear process and that each maturity stage is not necessarily achieved formally."

Steve Vosloo, Centre for e-Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Transformation and change

Change is about altering existing systems or processes, transformation is about radically reinventing what you do and how you do it. Wairua Consulting understands that change is a constant in today's technology-driven economy and that transformation is often a requirement for organisations entering new markets or developing new products.

Change and transformation incur risk but this can be managed and mitigated by having someone alongside who understands the strategic issues and the organisational reality of change and transformation.

Migration and settlement

New Zealand has one of the highest proportion of citizens who were born overseas. This has significant implications for government policy, for social and health outcomes and for employers and communities. Our expertise contributes to effective settlement strategies locally and nationally as well as to service and policy development. We publish and present nationally and internationally and demonstrate support for the sector through projects such as the Aotearoa Ethnic Network.

SMEs and strategy

New Zealand is a nation of small and medium enterprises, over 95% of companies employ less than twenty people. The result of this is often a lack of focus on strategy and a management that is working in, not for, the business. Wairua Consulting can help you develop and articulate a core strategic vision and to build a business strategy around your key strengths and market opportunities.

We work with you to empower your organisation to a place where strategy is an inherent part of business life, not a folder on the shelf.

Our facilitation and workshops can get management and staff thinking about the best ways to win in your business and our strategic planning skills will help transform those ideas into a reality that is grounded in your business.

Technology innovation

We support organisations and entrepreneurs looking to create a point of difference, particularly in the technology sector. The key component technology entrepreneurs often lack is business capability. Our experience can help you identify gaps and acquire knowledge. We can help you turn ideas into successful projects and businesses. We can assist you in identifying funding sources to realise your ideas.

Health and Mental Health

We have been involved in projects in the health sector that range from the development and review of data quality frameworks, dealing with strategic issues of ethnicity reporting, researching the health needs of migrants and developing resources to support the positive mental health of new mothers.