Thinkless Advisory
It’s tough out there. You need to find your competitive advantage, but keeping on top of ever-evolving business needs can be difficult, disruptive and often unclear.
Where do you start? How long will it take? Who knows where to find the real value?
Thinkless does.
Know Better, Do better.
Turn your toughest challenges into unfair advantages
When you know the dynamics of business change is ever-evolving, the first step is the hardest. These dynamics not only affect single teams or even departments. Every link in your value chain needs to be accountable to not only being optimised for doing good business today, but keeping on top of doing better business tomorrow. It’s tough, but someone’s got to do it.
This is where Thinkless thrives. Our team has experience on some of Australia’s largest transformations, transitions, mergers, acquisitions and ventures. With Thinkless, you get the experts who not only confront the toughest tests, but enjoy the challenges that surface advantages where others find problems.
Regardless of the size, complexity or commercial situation, you aren’t going through business change because things are easy. You know you need the change, we know how to get you there.
Whether it’s a mandate from the boardroom or part of an executive strategy, decisions to transform organisational structures, operating models, business functions or commercial strategies are never taken lightly. By their very nature transformations at any level are complex, get complicated, and become extra tough when people are impacted.
You need the right data and evidence from every facet of your organisation to make the right decisions on scope, priorities, budgets and sequencing. By properly orchestrating your transformation, you’ll have the tools, frameworks and systems you need to respond, not react.
It’s time to make your transformation thinklessly streamlined.
Whether it be external forces such as responding to a competitor’s move, or internal imperatives such as addressing inefficient processes, when you need to evolve an area of your business it’s rarely simple and never easy.
As experts in pragmatic delivery, the team at Thinkless understand the intricacies of evolutionary change, bringing real-world insights to often ambiguous and uncertain business situations. You need low-hanging fruit whilst addressing the deeper complexities of change, which calls for trusted advisors who put the ease in expertise. You need people who get where you’re at, where you’re headed, and where transitional change can take you.
Thinkless is ready for your next transition.
When you go through an merger or acquisition, you are undergoing one of the toughest business challenges you’ll ever encounter. Taking disparate and diverse parts to make a new whole is complicated, can get messy, and if unmanaged become volatile.
How long will it take to realise the benefits of the merger or acquisition? How will you integrate your workforce? Your systems? Your portfolios? What operating model is optimal? What is the right board structure? How are executives going to drive an integrated, cohesive and coherent strategy?
You know a prosperous future lies ahead. You also know there are vulnerabilities and unknown-unknowns in between. You need trusted advisors who have been at the coal face, not in ivory towers. It’s time to look at your merger or acquisition with a real-world lens, with experts who thrive on accountable results, not buzz words and vague promises.
It’s time to make your merger or acquisition thinklessly cohesive.
You’ve got a great business or product idea that needs to be brought to life – literally. You think you know where to start, then realise the barriers and minefields getting in between your vision and what’s needed to make it a commercial reality. Regulations, customers, suppliers, operations, finances, technology, data, marketing are basic areas that can make or break even the greatest of ideas. Even for the smallest of ventures, there are pitfalls and blind spots throughout your value chains, which is why you need experts who have proven skin in the game – not just fringe consultants calling the shots from the sidelines.
Whether your venture is starting up from scratch, or scaling up with even the slightest momentum, Thinkless not only back you – we get you. By getting involved in your venture, Thinkless plays an active role, meaning you get unconditional access to the best IP, systems, people and technology. Alongside an ecosystem of partners and suppliers, we accelerate the commercial success of ventures in a variety of industries.
When it’s time to turn your big idea into the next big thing, it’s time for Thinkless Ventures. Let’s do this, together.
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Thinkless
You don’t need another consultant taking up time and space in your office. You need a team of the toughest domain experts who have been there and done that with some of Australia’s highest-performing leaders. Spanning numerous industries and business functions, we’re ready when you are.
If you need to make significant changes to your finance functions or systems – whether it’s a fully realised Finance Transformation, a targeted Finance Transition, or the intricacies of a Merger & Acquisition for Finance – you can’t afford to cut any corners. With finance experts who have turned some of Australasia’s toughest finance initiatives into unfair advantages, we not only know why you need to change – we know how to get you there.
ESG needs to be integrated in one way, shape or form within your organisation. But what does that even mean? From comprehensive Environmental or Social Transformations, to more general ESG Transitions, right through to consolidated ESG strategies for M&A, you need to propagate value throughout your value chains with measurable, meaningful environmental and social results.
You need experts who have experience in a relatively new field that few have commercially encountered, let alone implemented. You need a team that the industry has looked to for guidance on making the E and S components of ESG commercially equitable years prior to mandates and legislation being enforced.
We believe in doing business better, by doing better business with ESG.
Technology can stand as a gateway – or barrier – to your relevance as a business. Whether it’s an all-encompassing enterprise-wide Technology Transformation, tactically upgrading internal systems through a Technology Transition, or dealing with potentially volatile Technology ecosystem in a Merger or Acquisition, you’re faced with a minefield of options, pitfalls and blindspots.
From connective workforce hardware to cloud infrastructure through to cyber resilience and IoT devices, you’ve got to juggle what’s best now, whilst anticipating what’s going to keep you relevant – or give your organisation a competitive advantage – into the future.
Although Technology is not a be-all / end-all, it’s a major lever in your strategy and operations. Don’t be left behind, the road ahead is tougher than ever to navigate.
When your organisation has gone down the path of Agile/Ways of Working, you already recognise the value of customer-centricity, collaboration, cross-functional teams and transparency. This inside-out approach to organisational change has equally opposing risks and rewards, which can bring volatility, vulnerabilities and breakthroughs. The challenge is where in your value chains do you look for those hidden or masked advantages? Everywhere.
The toughest part about Agile/Ways of Working initiatives is that regardless of the scope or scale, people are impacted. Where Agile/Ways of Working Transformations are heavy on culture and tend to entail Psychosocial Hazards, Transitions are not necessarily easier. And when it comes to Mergers & Acquisitions, one organisation’s version of Agile/Ways of Working can not only contrast with another – more often than not, they conflict each other.
It’s tough, but someone’s got to do it. Thinkless experts have been in the Agile/Ways of Working space for over 2 decades, and continue to drive real-world results across a range of industries, business functions and levels of commercial maturity.
Thinkless Tracker + Organisational Change
= Unlocked advantage for your domain.
We find the toughest challenges, easy
To uncover your advantage, we get down and dirty into your infrastructure, systems, resources and assets. Applying our data-driven and evidence-based principles in everything we do, Thinkless goes beyond just producing outputs to delivering the valuable outcomes you need for a sustained competitive advantage.
Honing your advantage begins with a comprehensive indicator check, which gives you clarity by indicating your agility, resilience and viability in the domains that you’re driving change in. Whether it’s a Pulse Check or a Health Check, your goals are evaluated against the baseline of your intended outcome, with ambiguity transformed into insights for next best decisions and actions.
Diagnostic Reviews combine data with facts and evidence to bring you what you need to surface. Advantages that are either hidden or clouded behind inefficiencies. Whether it’s a deep dive in your org design, operating model or portfolio of capex projects, or a comprehensive diagnosis of your executive strategy and value chains, your advantage comes through the Thinkless advantage. We go deeper than anyone else because we know the deeper you go, the tougher it can be. More data, more complexity, more variables. A nightmare for most; a utopia for our diagnostic experts. At Thinkless, it’s not just about the diagnosis, but how you can turn that into your own unfair advantage.
If you have a need to turn actionable insights from reviews into action, or action plans like RAPs or Climate Action Plans into action, you need to have access to the experts that know how to make action happen. It’s one thing to know better, it’s another to do better.
Doing better comes through effectively operationalising the intent of the actionable insights or action plans. What outcomes are you looking to achieve? Who benefits? How is this evidenced operationally? What are the red flags and where are blindspots in your value chains? Your imperative to operationalise well-intentioned strategies starts with a team of experts who have experienced the operationalising a range of strategies in some of Australasia’s toughest business changes. When you operationalise with Thinkless, you are going from knowing better, to doing better business. What are you waiting for?
Let's find your advantage, together
Finding your advantage calls for accountability, commitment and most importantly collaboration. You need to be guided on the tough calls, the quick wins, and the road ahead, all whilst keeping the momentum to perform and govern. Your advantage is in there somewhere, so let’s find it – together.
You don’t need any more jargon, vanity stats or reams of non-contextualised data. Thinkless respects your situation and needs are unique and more often than not tough to deal with. Our guidance is always clearly intelligent for useful application, which can be implemented in any department or across any strategy within your organisation. You don’t need a translator or an interpreter, you just need bottom line clarity. Thinkless gets this loud and clear.
When you have recommendations to put you on your path to change, having the right intelligence is only the first step. You are looking at a landscape of choices: new tools, new technology, new systems and structures, new talent. To help you make the leap from status quo to real-world advantage, you need to have the exact information, in the right format, at the right time. Thinkless have a No BS policy, with zero fluff or grey areas. We make sure you get exactly what you need – every time. That’s our HD promise – turning High Definition insights into action.
As an organisation that recognises knowledge is power, you already use information and data to provide general direction and guidance for decisions and actions. But information and data alone won’t cut it. You need to have the specifics that matter. The specifics that set goals, set the metrics and drive the progressive indicators of performance and protective indicators of governance. Thinkless treats specificity more than just a word. It’s a mindset that leads to accountability and comprehensive transparency. It’s what you need when you’re facing your toughest challenges, or realising the actual benefits of complex business change. To help you make those tough calls, help you choose the best path, help you justify the course of action, Thinkless has the specifics you need to not only know better, but do better business.
The best advantages give everyone an edge
Your new advantage doesn’t affect only one team or function. Whether change is big or small, it can have far-reaching risks and rewards throughout your whole ecosystem. You need to know that every single link in even the most complex of value chains are covered. You need the confidence that you’re working with experts who understand how real-world challenges translate into bottom line results. You need the Thinkless advantage.
When you take on major strategic change, you run the risk of new barriers and volatility. This can disrupt your operations, fragment strategies and complicate governance, which can put the board members personally at risk.
These tough environments are where Thinkless excels at uncovering hidden advantages, which increase value to your shareholders, lower your risk as a board member, and drive your organisation to where it deserves to be.
When your executive leadership team drive the strategy of your organisation forward, change is the only constant. As different executive functions play their part in change initiatives, all areas of the enterprise get impacted in various shapes and forms. Your commercial performance imperatives as an executive are often conflicted by your obligations for governance and welfare. It’s a tough gig, which needs a team of trusted experts who have been in the toughest commercial situations. Thinkless advisors understand the conflicting priorities and demands that define you as an high-performing executive, as an executive leadership team member, and as a leader who drives outcomes. If you’re ready to shift from reactive change to responsive strategy, it’s time to make the executive decision to do better. Know better, do better with Thinkless.
Your people are the key to the success of your new change – will they be the barrier you need to overcome, or be part of your unfair advantage? You don’t want to burden your workforce with unfamiliar processes and increased requirements, or go the other way and remove controls that are there to protect their ways of working. Thinkless works with you to develop the right culture that embraces the benefits of business change, and perpetuate the DNA of your organisation. Business change doesn’t need to be tough on your workforce – it needs tough experts who understand the boundaries between culture breakdown and breakthrough. If you want a culture that embraces the benefits of business change, Thinkless experts are ready when you are.
The Thinkless Tracker
Delivering certainty
Rating and proving your advantage by measuring your:
Agility
Your proficiency in managing complexity
Resilience
Your adeptness in transforming uncertainty
Viability
Your ability to turn competition into advantage
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