Advisory

Advisors you can rely on. Guidance you can trust.

At BellchambersBarrett, we think bigger and step further – delivering practical solutions that sustain your success. Our team combines deep expertise with a hands-on approach, ensuring our clients receive tailored and actionable advice.

Our Advisory Services

Strategic advisory

We help clients navigate complex environments by aligning strategy, technology, finance, and governance for sustainable outcomes.

  • Technology Advisory
  • Financial Advisory

Business transformation

We design and implement the foundation for efficient resource allocation, processes, and decision-making.

  • Operating Model
  • Program Delivery

AI strategy and
implementation support

We help government adopt AI Transparency and build capability critical for trust and harnessing the benefits.

  • AI Governance
  • Policy and Guidance
  • Capability Uplift and Training

Strategic advisory

Technology Advisory

We help agencies navigate complex and fast-moving technology landscapes by developing clear strategies, practical roadmaps, and governance frameworks that enable informed decision-making. Our approach focuses on efficiency, risk reduction, and sustainable strategic outcomes.

Technology and Data Strategy

  • Create strategies that transform organisations.
  • Translate visions into actionable roadmaps with initiative prioritisation and sequencing to enable digital transformation.
  • Develop tailored future-state options aligned with strategic objectives.
  • Develop compelling holistic investment proposals and business cases with robust planning, engagement and benefits analysis.

Governance

  • Establish governance frameworks to ensure decisions support strategic objectives, risk management, compliance, security, etc.
  • Define future-ready digital principles that align technology investments with organisational strategy.
  • Provide strategic oversight for technology platforms and integration to enable scalability and resilience.
  • Design or optimise processes to achieve organisational efficiency.

IT Modernisation

  • Design and guide the execution of IT strategies across all stages of the lifecycle, including design, test, build and migration.
  • Modernise legacy systems and rationalise applications to improve efficiency and resilience.
  • Assess organisational and technical readiness for emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and automation.

Key Experience

  • Cth Entity: End-to-end technology-enabled business transformation, from vision and target operating model through to process and system design, governance, UAT, change management, data migration, cutover and post-release transition to agile delivery.
  • Corporate Cth Entity: Technology advisory to modernise an end-oflife technology solution, including stakeholder engagement, process maps, future-state requirements and solution architecture.
  • Not-for-profit: Technology and data strategy and prioritised roadmap, grounded in a current-state assessment of the organisation.
  • Utility: ERP data migration strategy and oversight of execution for the consolidation from four systems into a single cloud ERP platform, including planning, governance, risk management and assurance.
  • Cth Entity: Assessment of cyber security framework maturity and uplift of core security policies to improve cyber resilience.
Capabilities:
  • Technology/data strategies
  • Actionable roadmaps
  • Enterprise & solution architecture
  • Governance frameworks
  • Process optimisation
  • Procurement support
Finance Advisory

We help our clients align finance and resourcing with operating models and digital capabilities to strengthen decision-making and build organisational capability. We apply a practical, data-driven approach for our clients, demonstrating our deep expertise to enable enhanced operational performance, strengthen financial outcomes and enable informed, data-driven decisions.

Finance Strategy

  • Create finance strategies that align investment and transformation decisions with organisational priorities and policy priorities.
  • Design effective pricing and cost recovery strategies to improve financial sustainability and ensure alignment with policy settings.
  • Assess and integrate workforce, data, technology and AI considerations into modern finance transformation strategies.
  • Develop fit-for-purpose artefacts to ensure effective knowledge transfer for enduring organisational capability uplift.

Financial Modelling, Costing and Commercial Analysis

  • Develop cost and pricing models to inform decision-making, enhance operational capabilities and strengthen financial resilience.
  • Review, develop and enhance activity-based costing models to enable cost allocation accuracy and improve operational sustainability.
  • Deliver cost-benefit modelling and analysis to assess value-for-money outcomes, investment viability, and strategic benefit realisation.

Transformation Enablement

  • Design strategic artefacts to enable effective governance, prioritisation and transformation delivery across the organisation (e.g. technology and workforce).
  • Assess and translate complex financial and operational data/information into actionable recommendations to enable effective transformation and transformation management.
  • Develop complex cost modelling for largescale transformation/organisational change.

Key Experience

  • Corporate Cth Entity: Development of a robust business case grounded in a compelling strategic narrative, detailed options analysis and supported by cost-benefit analysis to support a value-for-money investment decision.
  • Cth Entity: Support for the uplift of investment coordination and planning for IT-enabled projects and development of frameworks, artefacts and investment cases to evaluate IT investments.
  • Cth Entity: Development of an enduring agency Activity-Based Cost Model to support cost recovery and a revised pricing strategy.
  • Cth Entity: Analysis and recalculation of pay entitlements involving data quality assurance, analysis of industrial requirements and development of detailed costing workbooks to assess pay entitlements, with supporting approach and methodology documentation.
Capabilities:
  • Business/Investment Cases
  • Activity Based Costing
  • Cost Recovery Modelling
  • Financial Sustainability
  • Pricing and Cost Models
  • Strategic Finance Advisory
  • Benefits Modelling
  • Data visualisation
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Business transformation

Operating Model

We design fit-for-purpose operating models that align structures, roles, governance, and ways of working with strategic objectives. Our approach ensures organisations are configured to support effective decision-making, efficient delivery, and sustainable adoption of change.

Operating Model Design

  • Design fit-for-purpose operating models for new, evolving and established entities.
  • Review existing operating models to optimise structures, governance and ways of working.
  • Define accountabilities, decision rights and interfaces to improve delivery effectiveness.
  • Efficiency reviews to assess and improve operational performance.

Organisation Design

  • Define organisational structures, roles, and responsibilities.
  • Organisation function design to achieve strategic objectives.
  • Implement continuous improvement.
  • Performance reviews to identify gaps and provide actionable recommendations.
  • Assess culture and ways of working to support organisational alignment and change readiness.

Workforce Planning

  • Develop strategic workforce plans aligned to future capability and delivery needs.
  • Assess workforce capacity, capability and critical skill gaps.
  • Identify workforce risks and opportunities to support sustainable delivery.
  • Develop practical workforce optimisation initiatives and implementation pathways.

Key Experience

  • Cth Entity: Design future-state operating model, including org structure, roles, governance, decision rights and implementation roadmap to support improved delivery performance.
  • Not-for-profit: Designed future state sustainable operating models for not-for-profit organisation, strengthening capability and improving organisational efficiency.
  • Cth Entity: Assessed workforce capacity, capability, and critical skill gaps within a People and Culture function, developing a pathways to reduce risks and strengthen delivery capability.
  • State Dept: Identified workforce, psychosocial, and service delivery risks within high-risk government settings to improve sustainability and operational efficiency.
  • Not-for-profit: Developed aged care workforce plans aligned to future capability needs and sustainable service delivery requirements.
Capabilities:
  • Operating model and Organisation design
  • Governance definition
  • Ways of working / culture review
  • Workforce planning
  • Performance improvement
Program Delivery

We support the delivery of complex programs by combining strong delivery discipline with change management and capability uplift. This enables organisations to implement complex initiatives efficiently and successfully to realise benefits over time.

Program / Project Delivery

  • Oversee large-scale transformations and ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
  • Establish program and project management frameworks, risk controls, and reporting mechanisms.
  • PMO optimisation to governance and project oversight.
  • Health checks to assess performance against benchmarks and best practices.
  • Agile delivery frameworks to implement scalable and flexible approaches for project execution.

Change Management

  • Provide analysis to understand change impacts and inform planning and approach.
  • Develop change strategies that support successful adoption of new ways of working.
  • Design stakeholder engagement approaches tailored to impacted groups.
  • Equip leaders with the tools, messaging and confidence to lead change.
  • Support/deliver training to ensure teams have the skills to adjust to the new ways of working.

Capability Uplift

  • Assess current delivery capability and identify priority uplift opportunities.
  • Embed frameworks, tools and templates to build sustainable capability.
  • Develop practical guidance and training to support consistent delivery practices.
  • Support teams to adopt improved ways of working and sustain benefits over time.
  • Embed teams to drive continuous knowledge uplift and sustained capability.

Key Experience

  • Cth Entity: Program management of nine AI proof-of-concepts across three distinct business areas, including prioritisation, delivery coordination, governance and stakeholder engagement.
  • Not-for-profit: Change Management support for CRM implementation for a large NFP supporting the Canberra Region. Provide change impact analysis, planning and approach, delivery and engagement.
  • Cth Entity: IT program assurance to assess delivery confidence, governance, risks, dependencies and implementation readiness, providing practical recommendations to strengthen program delivery.
  • Cth Entity: Change Management function for 15 projects within a Cyber Security division.
  • Cth Entity: Set up the Project Management function for a branch, delivering critical projects. Built all the reporting tools, templates, and trained staff in continuing best practice project management capability.
Capabilities:
  • Program management frameworks and tools
  • PMO design and delivery
  • Risk, dependency and issue management
  • Change management integration
  • Delivery capability uplift
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AI strategy and implementation support

We help our clients ensure AI is deployed and adopted securely, transparently, and in alignment with stakeholder expectations to build and maintain trust. We focus on designing responsible AI adoption through clear governance, workforce uplift, and embedded ethical practices.

AI Governance

  • Design and implement governance structures to manage AI risk and support the ethical use of AI.
  • Establish accountability mechanisms for AI decision-making and leadership oversight.
  • Conduct risk assessments to identify and mitigate ethical, security, and operational risks.
  • Provide guidance on ethical and operational considerations for AI use and adoption.

Policy and Guidance

  • Develop comprehensive AI policies and processes to support ethical use and governance principles.
  • Create clear documentation and reporting processes for AI use and decision logic.
  • Align policies with ethical standards, compliance requirements, and emerging regulatory frameworks.
  • Develop internal and public-facing materials to support responsible AI practices.

Capability Uplift & Workforce Training

  • Deliver targeted training and awareness programs to build AI literacy across the organisation.
  • Equip leaders and staff with the tools and guidance to manage AI responsibly and effectively.
  • Embed continuous improvement practices to sustain capability growth over time.

Key Experience

  • Cth Entity: Developed an enterprise AI Strategy to guide safe, effective and value-driven adoption of AI, including strategic priorities, adoption pathways, capability uplift initiatives.
  • Cth Entity: Design and establishment of enterprise AI governance, processes and operating model changes to accommodate emerging AI capabilities, including governance framework, use case triage, decision pathways, adoption showcases and capability uplift.
  • Cth Entity: Program management of nine AI proof-of-concepts across three distinct business areas, including prioritisation, delivery coordination, governance, stakeholder engagement and reporting to assess feasibility, value and adoption readiness.
  • Cth Entity: Delivery of a class leading, secure platform for AI Safety testing to provide whole of government advice. Managed the design and planning through to release, coordinating stakeholders, governance, testing, risk management and operational transition.
Capabilities:
  • AI strategy development
  • AI governance frameworks
  • Ethical and risk assessment
  • AI policy and guidance development
  • Use-case assessment processes
  • Workforce capability uplift and training
  • Readiness and adoption assessment
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