Services
As your partner what services do we offer
At Gallus, we offer our partners the services they find the most useful, and with all of our consultants having 15 years plus of expierence, we know what works. 50+ clients in 10 industries can’t be wrong
We listen to what you actually need and don’t offer you something that you don’t. This way, we all win, and you get the outcome you were really after.
For the last ten years we have been working with clients on the South Island and helping them to complete on a national and international stage,
Get in touch with Gallus today, and lets talk about how we can help you on the next stage of your organisation’s journey
Clients Served
Industries
Strategy &Planning
We develop a comprehensive roadmap of your business, data and technology projects aligned with your business goals, ensuring your organisation is future-ready
- Conduct in-depth analysis of current IT infrastructure and business needs
- Create tailored strategies with actionable plans for seamless technology integration
A great business strategy is nothing without great execution, how will the rapidly evolving technology and data landscape support or challenge your business strategy- how will AI play a role in your organisations future? At Gallus we work with organisations to support them to build out their business strategy to identify what technology and data enablement options will best help them achieve their strategic goals. Our pragmatic options analysis and road map development process helps our clients to qualify the options, understand the high level cost benefits and execution risk to support them in developing a realistic and executable strategy plan.
We work with your team to understand you vision, mission and key strategic goals and outcomes. Our planning methodology then takes us through a collaborative series of workshops with your business and technology teams to identify the options to achieving your goals- we help identify the technology and data solutions that can enable these outcomes. Our team then works with you to assess and prioritise the options, undertake high level cost/ benefit analysis and risk assessments. We then construct a concise strategic enablement plan which focuses on the recommended option and the supporting investment, governance framework and execution road map to maximise speed to benefit. We then offer ongoing support as needed to review and refresh the plan as your organisation and your environment evolve.
Our process delivers a collaborative, well-challenged and concise enablement plan articulated in business language for board and executive audiences, which demonstrates how your technology and data investment will support the delivery of your strategy and when expected benefits and investment will be delivered.
Project Assurance
We provide comprehensive project evaluations to ensure optimal performance, alignment with objectives, and successful delivery.
- Conduct thorough assessments of project progress, risks, and resource allocation
- Deliver actionable recommendations to enhance project efficiency and effectiveness
We offer a range of project assurance options from project health checks, ongoing assessment and support to project teams, sponsors and steering committees to provide continuous assurance as well as undertaking post implementation reviews. We take a pragmatic approach assessing projects again accepted methodologies as well as using our years of experience and common sense to assess key lead and lag project indicators to help avoid costly delays or changes to scope. We offer a range of options to suit your needs and can work with you to design an assurance process that will fit your needs and budget.
While we can perform health checks and deep dives on areas such as detailed planning and cut over planning etc, our preferred approach to project assurance is to provide the role of a critical friend to work with steer co’s and project teams to provide ongoing review and support on project plans, budgeting, design, scope and risk management, change and communication. Providing regular, concise independent reporting of project status to project governance boards. We aim to work collegially with the project team ensuring there are no major surprises.
Given the proactive nature of our assurance services our clients often gain the benefit of early insights of emerging project issues along with our support and input to help remediate these early or avoid in the first place. Clients also have transparent regular consistent project performance reporting that is easy for sponsors and steering committees to understand and act on.
Our services often reduce issues and cost/ time overruns and provide steering committees with greater confidence that their projects will deliver the benefits they are seeking.
Change Management
We facilitate smooth organisational transitions during major projects, ensuring seamless adoption of new processes and technologies and increasing the speed at which you see benefits
- Develop tailored change strategies aligned with organisational culture and project goals
- Implement comprehensive communication plans and stakeholder engagement initiatives
Gallus offers a range of Change Management services aligned to recognised industry good practice with an overall focus of ensuring we help clients maximise a successful adoption of the change, enabling them to realise project benefits early. Our change management services include;
- Stakeholder impact and change readiness assessments
- Change management strategy and plan development and implementation
- Communication strategy and plan development and execution
- Training development, management and delivery
- Leading change support for sponsors and senior project stakeholders to enable them to successfully lead change
- Change management QA, coaching and mentoring
- Dedicated senior change experts to support your key projects and programmes.
Our role in change is to be the support crew to let your leaders lead the change. Our focus is working with you to identify the impacts on your key stakeholders and teams to ensure they receive the right support and training to be ready to adopt the change early and successfully enabling you to avoid issue of poor adoption or retraining. Successful adoption equals early benefit delivery which is our key focus, We also work with sponsors and other key stakeholders to deal with change resistance and to ensure change is well communicated and stakeholders remain engaged and informed. Our change management methodology works in parallel with our project management process, ensuring the people dimension is well managed in parallel with project budgets, plans and timelines.
The cause of most project issues and failures comes down to people yet project management often focuses on the task, time and money. Our change management processes put people at the centre of projects ensuing they are engaged, informed and included in the project process and given the training, tools and knowledge to adopt the change. We believe good change management disciplines help improve benefits realisation and the general satisfaction of staff and other stakeholders- this is the outcome we seek to ensure our customers obtain.
Project Delivery
We expertly guide projects from initial concept to successful delivery, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives and industry best practices.
- Develop detailed project plans, including scope definition, resource allocation, and timelines
- Provide hands-on project management, overseeing execution and managing stakeholder expectations
Successful Project and Programme Delivery is Gallus core competency and the back bone of our consultancy. We have a proven track record of delivering a range of complex, large scale programmes as well as delivery of small to medium projects across a range of organisations and industries. As with all of our services, we look to take a collaborative approach with your teams to ensure that key project outcomes are delivered. We can take on the overall delivery of a project, provide key resources or fulfil a coaching and advisory role- whatever makes sense to you and will deliver the best value.
We can be involved from the start or join the project when it makes sense- having us in from the start it often the most beneficial to help you set up for success, but we are also used to helping our clients with projects which may have hit some significant issues and need more than a guiding hand.
We work with you to agree on our role and approach- we can use our range of methodologies or yours or a mix- again, we are open to what makes sense. We can also work across a waterfall, agile, product or mixed implementation approach, as well as manage pure business projects. We provide open and transparent reporting to our sponsors and steer co’s and have a firm belief in a no surprises approach. So if you are looking for pragmatic outcomes focused project management with a firm eye on the prize with enough project control- we are your guys!
Working with Gallus will get you the outcome you are looking for, as outlined above we have a great track record in project delivery and we are committed to getting our clients their outcomes on time and to budget.
Business Analysis
We collaborate with organisations to identify, analyse, and document business requirements, ensuring alignment between technology solutions and operational needs.
- Conduct comprehensive stakeholder interviews and workshops to gather detailed requirements
- Develop clear, actionable requirement specifications and process improvement recommendations
Gallus offers a comprehensive range of Business Analysis services aligned to a range of current methodologies and industry good practice. Our BA practice remains focused on ensuring key user requirements, along with a user-friendly system approach, are maintained throughout the development and enhancement cycle. Our Business Analyst services include;
- Business Case development and support
- High level and detailed requirements/ user story facilitation
- Solution design
- Test strategy development and testing support
- BA mentoring and QA
- Business readiness assessments
- Training, communication and stakeholder management support
- Dedicated Senior and intermediate Business Analysts are also available to support your key projects and programmes.
- Our team also have experience of working across waterfall, product and agile based methodologies along with hybrid approaches.
Our BA team look to work with our clients in a flexible manner augmenting existing client approaches with our own methodologies, templates and workshop packs where it make sense. We are happy to embed our consultants into your project teams to upskill our clients or to take ownership for the BA element of projects, depending on what makes most sense for our clients. We work with you up front to agree the approach to ensure everyone has clarity. All of our BA work is QA’d by our senior staff to ensure it meets Gallus standard, this is included in our standard fees.
At the core of our BA approach is advocating for the end user ensuring the system is intuitive to use and optimised for user efficiency .
We believe our BA approach not only provides upskilling and knowledge transfer to our clients project teams but also leads to the delivery of more efficient, user focused systems for their wider business teams, customers and suppliers.
Data Analysis
We deliver comprehensive data analysis services, including reporting, data migration analysis, and insights generation to drive informed decision-making.
- Perform in-depth analysis of complex datasets to uncover meaningful patterns and trends
- Develop detailed data migration strategies and conduct thorough pre- and post-migration analysis
Gallus offers a comprehensive range of Data Services aligned to a range of current methodologies and industry good practice. We have adopted these practices and methodologies in a pragmatic way and we do not blindly follow a methodology but rather adapt it to our clients needs. Our Data services include:
- Data Analysis: Helping organizations interpret and analyse their data and data quality to extract insights that inform decision-making.
- Data Strategy: Developing strategies for data collection, storage, and usage that align with business goals.
- Data Governance: Advising on best practices for data quality, privacy, and compliance with regulations.
- Data Management: Advising on best practices for data and meta data management to ensure good quality data.
- Implementation: Assisting with the implementation of data management tools and technologies. This includes Data Migrations.
- Consulting: We can provide a variety of different strategic and technical BI consulting services tailored to your needs.
- Training and Support: Offering training to teams on data analytics tools and techniques
We work with your team to
- Form relationships with functional and technical leaders, understand their current processes, and identify the data pain points
- We assist with Data Strategy development, Strategic Roadmapping, Business Analysis, Maturity Assessments, Information Architecture and Advisory
- We help you to create trusted, high-quality data supporting reliable decision making through helping you to establish Data Management, Data Migrations, Data Platforms, Master Data Management, Data Governance and Data Integration
- We help you to develop Insights that deliver a competitive advantage while minimising threats to your organisation through Data Science, Visualisations and Dashboards and Business Intelligence
- We can plan and execute Data Migrations for your projects
We help you to uncover the right insights to drive growth and proactive action through pragmatic data enablement, modern data platforms and BI-powered analytics.
Data-driven insights are essential for businesses to make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition. A well-implemented and supported data strategy, alongside modern data architecture will enable your business to leverage the right data to drive growth, improve efficiency, and innovate.
We can help you achieve your data modernisation goals with an approach that aligns your needs, capabilities, and budget. Whether you require a secure data platform, robust governance or real-time quality reporting, Gallus can help you to unlock the potential of your data.
Enterprise Architecture
We take a pragmatic approach that focuses on the principles, intent and high-level vision of EA with the aim to provide a road-map of the changes in people, process and technology required to execute strategy.
- We help you model your business at the right level of detail
- We help you to create a plan to be able to share that plan with everyone involved in managing technology related business change
Gallus offers a comprehensive range of Enterprise Architecture Services aligned to a range of current methodologies and industry good practice. We have adopted these practices and methodologies in a pragmatic way and we do not blindly follow a methodology but rather adapt it to our clients needs. Our EA services include:
- Creating a simple representation of your business and how it provides value to its customers through creating a Business Capability Framework.
- Developing g a view of how technology supports your business now and in the future through establishing an Application Portfolio Management process
- Identifying where technology can create customer value or improve internal processes through Business Capability Mapping.
- De-risking technology investments by understanding the changes to people, process and technology that are needed to deliver the expected results through heatmapping capabilities and technology.
- Creating visibility of the information that’s critical to your business success and knowing what needs to be managed as a strategic asset through the implementation of EA tools or other visual tools.
We work with your team to
- Form relationships with functional leaders, understand their current processes, and identify the pain points
- Map the business capabilities and segment capabilities to provide between “Competitive Advantage” and “Maintaining Parity”
- Prioritise capabilities to provide strategic direction
- Evaluate current and future state maturity for each capability (cross functional exercise) to determine near- and longer-term investment requirements. This can be a function of process definition, degree of automation, organiational reach, and the measurement of the business outcome.
- Create high level current state Technology Architecture for Capability Model (link Applications to Capabilities and Infrastructure to Applications)
- Identify improvement opportunities and identify technology gaps and redundancies (heatmap)
- Create high level future state Technology Architecture Options
- Cost/benefit analysis of future state technology architecture options
- Recommend future state architecture option
- Create technology roadmap for agreed option including timelines, business capabilities and outcomes and budget
Our process delivers a collaborative, well challenged and concise improvement plan articulated in business language for board and executive audiences which demonstrates how your technology investment will support the delivery of your strategy and when expected benefits and investment will be delivered.
PMO / Portfolio Management
We help organisations select the right mix of projects within an organisation’s investment envelope and then ensuring they are delivered
- Select the right mix of projects to assist in achieving organisational goals
- Create the required governance strcuture to ensure delivery success
All successful businesses are those that manage the execution of change well, projects are the vehicle that generally deliver change. Selecting the right mix of projects within an organisations investment envelope and then ensuring they are delivered well are two significant competencies all future focused businesses are striving to achieve. Gallus has significant experience in project governance from the set up and enhancement of enterprise-wide portfolio management processes to the set-up of supporting PMO functions. Our team have helped support and shape some of the most successful PMO functions in NZ.
Working alongside your executive team and project/ portfolio teams we provide a pragmatic set of establishment and improvement services as follows;
- Portfolio Management process/ function establishment and improvement
- PMO establishment and improvement
- Project governance establishment and review
- Sponsor and steer co training and coaching
- Portfolio management toolset selection and implementation support
- Benefits Management
Our services seek to help our client select the right balance of projects based on benefit, risk, achievability, strategic coverage and resource impact to make best use of their investment envelope. We also then work with them to ensure this portfolio of projects is delivered right ensuring return on investment is maximised.
