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Consultancy

Curtin Business School's Consultancy Unit provides quality customised training, executive education and specialist consulting services in Australia and overseas. We draw on a pool of highly skilled professionals and practitioners within the division.

Executive education

Curtin Business School courses cover both emerging and established business areas. Courses are distinguished by their variety, applied approach, flexible structure and relevance to the corporate world and can be adapted for delivery in partnership with clients.

The division has long standing expertise in the provision of international education and unrivalled partnerships with education providers throughout the South East Asian region.

Consultancy services

CBS clients form a wide spectrum of business entities, in both the public and private sector. Our key strengths are in partnership relationships with clients and attention to maintaining the highest quality of program delivery and consulting outcomes. The range of consultancy services is extensive, with specialist services in the following areas:

Strategic planning utilising Group Decision Support Systems

When working with groups it is important to provide an efficient means of identifying and gathering different perspectives, surfacing concerns and issues and identifying possible solutions. The STRATCOM facility at the Graduate School of Business is equipped with GSS (Group Support Systems) technology and provides an effective and efficient means of soliciting, collating and organising multiple points of view. The facility is designed as a boardroom/meeting room with the added benefit of unobtrusive technology. The STRATCOM facility ensures that information-gathering sessions are focused and efficient.

With STRATCOM software it is possible to have privacy in the meeting, time out for individual thinking and decision making. It is just as possible to have facilitated discussion and debate. Instant reporting of the meeting, graphs and tables means that there need be no time lag between meeting and action, a vital factor in today's marketplace.

Procurement and contracting

Professor Guy Callender is the Foundation Professor and Chair of Strategic Procurement at Curtin Business School, a joint initiative of Curtin and the Western Australian Government and the first appointment of its type in Australia. Over the past 10 years, he has made a continuous contribution to the enhancement of academic knowledge and practice in the area of Strategic Procurement and Supply Chain Management.

Guy has been actively involved in research into procurement and supply chain management, the outcomes of which have been published in Australia, the USA and Europe. With a deep interest in the needs of practitioners, he has pioneered a number of innovative postgraduate programs. Guy has undertaken a range of long-term consultancy projects in the areas of supply chain management, international management and work-based learning within Australia the USA, Austria and Vanuatu. In addition he has extensive research and teaching experience in Southeast Asia.

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Tourism

The Curtin Sustainable Tourism Centre (CSTC) was established in September 2002. The CSTC has expertise in tourism development, including design, planning, management, indigenous issues and environmental and social concerns from a sustainability perspective.

The following are some of the major projects that are underway or have been completed by the Centre:

  • Assessment of the Economic Value of recreation and tourism in WA's National Parks, Marine Parks and other Forested and Natural Areas
  • Australian Tourism business accreditation
  • Sustainable Tourism Enterprises in Western Australia Study.

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Public Sector Management

Curtin Business School has a number of academics with significant career histories within the WA Public Sector.  Most have direct experience in delivering public sector reform strategies and others have researched and published on the subject.  These academics are involved in the provision of consultancy services and the design and delivery of high quality Professional Development Programs to the public sector, with recent examples including:

  • Department of the Premier and Cabinet
    (facilitation of the Public Sector Management Program, 2003 - ongoing)
  • Department of the Premier and Cabinet 
    (design and delivery of Leadership Skills workshops across the public sector, 2006 – ongoing)
  • Water Corporation
    (delivery of a two unit Management Essentials Program for new managers, 2008 - ongoing).

Corporate Governance

The Corporate Governance & Social Responsibility Research Unit conducts academic and contract research and consultancy in the area of governance and corporate social responsibility, with a particular focus on the development of leadership and management practice.

The unit incorporates issues of governance with not only financial accountability, but also environmental and community challenges increasingly being experienced by business and government.