Our 4 Pillars
“Seeing the wave before anyone else”
Pillar 1
Strategy & Innovation Practice
Strategy
Helping organisations and business owners to navigate new business opportunities, new markets & industries, new products & services through validating, testing & analysing how organisation can outcompete either existing competitors or enter new
contested or uncontested markets.
Our Strategy practice combined with our innovation capabilities provides
the ideal formula to help our customers make more informed decisions.
FRC is all about seeing and preparing for either the opportunities or
challenges that are “around the corner” or “beyond the horizon”.
Innovation
FRC is a leading Innovation Practice that has developed & commercialised innovation accelerators, innovation labs, start-up community hubs and ecosystems and innovation incubators.
We have worked with leading innovation organisations such as Stone & Chalk the leading fintech accelerator, Lakeba Group & TechBeach a leading reverse incubator and technology development house and many large enterprise organisations, their boards and senior level executives.
We have also been responsible for conceiving, creating and commercialising the first Sports Incubator In Australia (Sydney Olympic Park Authority – SOPA) and we are also the founding partners & board representative for SEVENmile the first social enterprise innovation lab directly focused on growing and building a innovation ecosystem community on the Northern Beaches of Sydney Australia.
FRC Innovation work includes building & delivering over 200 plus innovation workshops for start-up entrepreneurs through to
Executive level & boards from leading global and Australian firms.
Some of the programs delivered include; problem clarity & problem/solution assumption workshops and innovation
tournaments, agile prototype development, design thinking & ideation workshops, concept and solution design and
validation testing, customer validation
Our programs aim to support and deliver the following from early start up businesses through to large enterprises
Our programs aim to support and deliver the following from early start up businesses through to large enterprises
To allow businesses and business executives to better prepare and facilitator design and manage new innovative products and services to outcompete its competitors or simply as a way to manage new competitor threats. This is most noticeable in industries and markets that are being impacted by rapid change or that are potentially under threat from competitors or disruptive forces.
Provide an agile, accelerated and structured framework process to help businesses and entrepreneurs commercialise their business ideas, concepts and innovative solutions.
Pillar 2
Commercial Market Development
- We assist them by directly engaging in either existing or new potential markets/industries. We achieve this through an agile and innovative approach around commercialisation and market development. We understand the practicality of testing, evaluating and analysing potential opportunities for organisations to protect, shift, grow or enter new market/industry segments.
- We assist them by directly engaging in either existing or new potential markets/industries. We achieve this through an agile and innovative approach around commercialisation and market development. We understand the practicality of testing, evaluating and analysing potential opportunities for organisations to protect, shift, grow or enter new market/industry segments.
- We assist them by directly engaging in either existing or new potential markets/industries. We achieve this through an agile and innovative approach around commercialisation and market development. We understand the practicality of testing, evaluating and analysing potential opportunities for organisations to protect, shift, grow or enter new market/industry segments.
- We assist them by directly engaging in either existing or new potential markets/industries. We achieve this through an agile and innovative approach around commercialisation and market development. We understand the practicality of testing, evaluating and analysing potential opportunities for organisations to protect, shift, grow or enter new market/industry segments.
- We help to de-risk the risk by providing greater insights and actionable intelligence
Technology Application Development
Our practice provides advice and build capabilities in areas such as:
- Data Analytics & Business Intelligence (BI)
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Digital Transformation – Cloud, DevOps, UI re-engineering, User Experience Design
- Mobile Application Development – enterprise mobility & enterprise mobile development,
- Product Engineering – New product development, product testing & QA, support & maintenance
- Enterprise Application Development (ADM) – customer application development, application testing, application support & maintenance and Re-engineering & Migration
- Testing as a Service – Performance and Security testing, functional automation, configuration management
- Salesforce.com application & integration
Pillar 3
Digitisation Transformation Practice
FRC is a global thought leader and business practitioner in the areas of:
- Managed Print Services (MPS) - Independent consulting services
- Document Imaging (including physical hardcopy migration),
- Document imaging & business workflow,
- Business Process Management (BPM),
- Content Management Services
- Digital Transformation
As an industry leader and educator FRC also maintain an active board presence through member representation on global industry associations such as the Managed Print Services Association.
This not only provides FRC to be better positioned to understand existing challenges, it also provides us greater insights to a increasingly and rapidly changing mobile and digital economy.
The ability to bridge, migrate and manage a digital transformation that includes the physical hardcopy processes of managing information and data to a more agile, immersive and customer orientated digital native is a growing imperative.
Pillar 4
Business Advisory Practice:
Our Business Advisory Practice covers the following area of core competency:
- Board and Executive Counsel (providing advice to boards and executive teams)
- Business mentoring & business coaching
- Sales & Marketing & Commercialisation development
- Technology development
- Change Management
- Business Networking Affiliation
- Capital Raising & Investment
- Capital Equipment Finance
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