Empowering your organisation
business analysis
How we can help
Unlocking the full potential of your business
Millpond Business Analysts are dedicated to empowering your organisation and team through unravelling complexities, streamlining processes, and unlocking the full potential of your business.
Our approach is rooted in collaboration. We’ll work closely with your team to gain a comprehensive understanding of your goals, challenges, and aspirations. Armed with this knowledge, we work to evaluate a perceived need, and where necessary, identify or design solutions that align with your vision and culture, to achieve success for you!
Our team of analysts offer a wide range of experience covering many industries, project sizes and organisation types, and thrive on transforming challenges into opportunities.
Our business analysis services
Support business evolution
Requirements Gathering & Analysis
Lay a solid foundation for your projects with our meticulous requirements gathering process. We’ll collaborate with your team to ensure your business needs are thoroughly understood, documented, analysed and translated into clear and actionable specifications for successful project execution.
Process Improvement
Streamline your operations for maximum efficiency. Our Business Analysis experts identify bottlenecks, redundancies, and areas for improvement, enhancing efficiency, reducing costs and increasing overall productivity.
Data Analysis
Uncover trends, patterns and insights to guide strategic decisions – harnessing the power of your data. Our Business Analysis services include in-depth data analysis, providing valuable detail to empower informed decision-making. Make strategic choices based on a solid foundation of analytics and drive your business forward.
Stakeholder Engagement & Management
We all know effective communication plays a crucial role in everything we do. Let us foster meaningful connections with all stakeholders involved in your business. Our consultants facilitate effective communication and collaboration, ensuring that everyone is aligned with the organisational goals and they are invested in the success of your initiatives.
Options Evaluation
Options evaluation is such an important stage, as business requirements need to be met. We’ll assess the costs, benefits, and risks associated with different options. Through meticulous analysis, you’ll feel empowered to make informed decisions and be confident that the solution you choose will align with your unique needs.
Business Case Development
Justifying undertaking a particular project, programme or portfolio, is the purpose of a Business Case. Our team can assist in the development of comprehensive business cases to document all considered options while providing the rationale for the preferred option.
Why Millpond
Proven expertise. We love what we do
With over 150 years of collective project experience and a reputation for delivering outcomes, we’ve built a legacy that’s only growing.
Passionate about projects, our people are talented, skilled, and capable professionals, who provide the full range of project management services and training to increase your team’s skills and capabilities to help you achieve your business outcomes.
Some of Australasia’s largest and most successful organisations use Millpond because we offer:
Collective experience
150+ years of collective experience and a reputation for delivering outcomes
Safe pair of hands
Through our track record of delivering successful outcomes for our clients
Breadth of services
The breadth of our services helps to de-risk client projects
A people-centric culture
We are 100% New Zealand owned and recognised as global thought leaders
Focus was a key factor – we had a PM who could focus the majority of his time on the one project.
Joe Smedley, Head of Container Operations,
LPC
We knew Millpond had the capability and they are well connected in the global project management landscape. As a training and consultancy organisation, Millpond is always building knowledge, which is something they bring to the partnership with Foodstuffs SI.”
Matt Richardson, Head of PMO, Foodstuffs SI
It was really a consultative process, as Millpond asked the right questions, then they gave us the right solution.
Ian Lafferty, Director of Executive Programs,
University of Otago
Our Trainer was excellent. She had a manner and charm that is magnetic and her ability to facilitate class engagement is testament to her project management skills. Great course. One of the most engaging I’ve ever been on.
Bevan Johnson, Project Manager, Fonterra
Millpond managed a multi-vendor project team spread across the world, within very ambitious scopes and time frames. Millpond were great to work with, with their simple but methodical approach to project management.
Grant Longden, Digital Manager, FairWay.
Millpond delivered a completely bespoke training solution. They created a breadth of training content and gave us examples of what to expect during the training. The Millpond team are great – very patient and tolerant.
Cameron Shipman, Manager of Programme Project Delivery
Kāinga Ora
The online resources (material and questions) were very helpful for post-course study. The trainers know their stuff but more importantly, tailor it to the individual learning style and pace.
Nick Dollin, Project Manager, Trimble
It was great how Millpond modified the process to fit with the business and showed us how to use it. The shared ownership of the final process gave us confidence in an effective outcome.
Quenton Johnston, Process Manager, OceanaGold Macraes Operation
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case studies
Isaac Construction is a 450-person, Christchurch-based civil construction company that in recent years has quickly expanded.
Millpond was able to form a strong relationship with TCC stakeholders through the development of this completely bespoke training course.
Millpond provided Kathmandu with an experienced team with the right skills to upgrade their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution.
Millpond were instrumental in shaping the new Otago University MBA PCE offering
Foodstuffs needed a Project Manager to deliver two critical and complex projects.
A bespoke Capability Programme to establish and develop the critical capabilities required to meet future demands of BHP’s growth portfolio.
The Millpond team developed an entirely bespoke, one day PRINCE 2 training program that was delivered at two separate locations in July of 2020.
FairWay Resolution Ltd is New Zealand’s leading dispute resolution and conflict management organisation.
OceanaGold needed to define a set of structured yet flexible processes capable of implementing and managing the full spectrum of projects.
Tasked with managing the South Island’s largest port, Lyttelton Port Company facilitates the import