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Latest NewsIs a shakeout of peak bodies looming?
Business viability is a major issue in the recession. However, industry institutions like peak bodies must also confront a challenging new reality where funding from government and businesses will tighten as the recession unfolds. Read Brian...
Creating 21st Century Industry Service Organisations
Modern businesses operate in an era where speed, scale, relationships across value chains, connectivity with consumers and adaptability are critical for success. They must be agile to thrive and have risen to the challenge with new business models,...
Overwhelming support to innovate and form Greenlife Industry Australia
Inovact Consulting is delighted to welcome the decision yesterday by businesses to establish Greenlife Industry Australia as the new national peak body for the industry. Members of Nursery and Garden Industry Australia (NGIA) came together in...
Huge step forward as NGIA commits to reinvention
Credit: Nursery and Garden Industry Australia In November 2018, the Australian Nursery and Garden Industry Associations, along with the national body Nursery and Garden Industry Australia (NGIA) unanimously committed to reinventing their...
Ground-breaking Launch for Gascoyne Primary Producers
Inovact Consulting welcomes the official launch this week of Gascoyne Primary Producers (GPP), the new peak body formed to represent the seafood, horticulture and pastoral industries of the Gascoyne region in Western Australia. As the project...
Is ag research in for a tinkering or an overhaul?
Inovact’s Managing Director Brian Ramsay was featured in an article recently published in FarmOnline National about what appetite exists for significant change in agricultural research and development. Brian said there was understandably much...
Big players urged to drag red meat representation into this century
Inovact's Managing Director Brian Ramsay was featured today in an article which suggests the big players in red meat must step up and re-invent their peak representative bodies. Brian says that it is now "disturbingly common" for most businesses to...
Industry organisations need to innovate too!
As primary industry businesses innovate rapidly and strive to be competitive on the global stage, somehow we have forgotten to demand that the associated industry services bodies are held to the same standard. Industry service bodies are the...
Leading Rural Transformation session: Outlook 2018
Inovact’s Managing Director Brian Ramsay is chairing a key session on innovation by industry service organisations at the 2018 ABARES Outlook conference. The session is called ‘Leading Rural Transformation’ and will be held on 6 March at...
Inovact welcomes formation of IDCC
Brian Ramsay from Inovact Consulting is delighted to be a part of forming the new peak body, International Development Contractors Community (IDCC). The IDCC represents independent consultants and private sector contractors working with the...