When businesses and industry service organisation (ISO) leaders confront the need for dramatically improved performance, they start hearing a lot about what can’t be done. A solutions mindset is to innovate and overcome hurdles, but when people speak with authority about what can’t be done it confines the scope for change. Savvy leaders will […]
Peak Body
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 Sydney to vote on a resolution to establish Greenlife Industry Australia, following the recommendations of the national re-invention project. […]
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 manager, Inovact Consulting is proud to have contributed to the formation of GPP and congratulates all the business and […]
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 curiosity in the R&D sector “about what problems specifically we are looking to solve.” “There are lots of examples of consultation and workshops in […]
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 reject joining an agricultural peak body, largely due to a critical failure to innovate and […]
Not All Peak Bodies Are Equal
Peak bodies across all Australian industries range from the lacklustre to the outstanding when it comes to performance. Unfortunately, the implication is that most peak bodies fall into the middle – they are mediocre. It is the underperforming bodies that are the source of wariness by businesses when it comes to weighing up the value […]
