Thanks for the message!

I’m sure there are plenty of boutique consulting firms in Sydney. Here is a list of the ones that I know of:

1. Dowling
2. Incite Consulting
3. Infact Consulting
4. Nexus Consulting
5. Odin Consulting
6. Port Jackson Partners
7. SMT Consulting
8. White Room Associates

I hope that helps.

Cheers,

Tom

I have a engineering background and right now working as a portfolio analyst in a small financial services firm. I would like to move into consulting. Could you please please provide me with a list of boutique consulting firms in sydney.

After discussing your question with my good mate Para I have the following thoughts:

You could use the Porter’s Five Forces and Value Chain Analysis, but as always, the usefulness depends on what the non-profit does. This is true of for-profit businesses as well. Many non-profits operate businesses - like fair trade coffee suppliers and if they were analysing whether to enter a new market, then you could use Porter’s 5 Forces. Also, a microfinance business could used P5 forces to assess a market. Say, for example, an international NGO was deciding on whether to start a microfinance operation in Bangladesh (a highly saturated microfinance market with low barriers to entry) or China (a nearly empty microfinance market, which has significant demand but very high barriers to entry) - they could use P5 to assess them.

As for the Value Chain Analysis, this might also be useful in trying to decide how to deliver the maximum social impact. What activities does the NGO engage in? Are they able to conduct their activities more efficiently than other NGOs who carry out similar work? Are they carrying out niche work that is not being attended to by other NGOs? Can the NGO create a greater social impact by dropping activities that are better performed by others and focussing on its core competencies? These are but some of the questions that you might want to ask yourself.

Hope this helps,

Tom

Thanks