ICG Events

Dear ICG Members

In appreciation of another successful year, ICG invites you to the last Melbourne Member event of the year – an evening of laughter and good cheer – our ICG Christmas Party!

This event will feature:

• Champagne cocktails on arrival; and
• 3 course sit down dinner with fine wines in the exclusive Private Dining Room of the RACV City Club.

We will also announce:

• A short update on our local and global plans for 2017.

Please note that this event is for financial Members only.

To confirm your membership and attendance, please contact Sherree Schmidt at sherree.schmidt@internalconsulting.com

RSVP:

Please RSVP to memberservices.mel@internalconsulting.comby Friday, 11th November 2016, including any dietary requirements. Members are also welcome to attend the Christmas Party at any of the ICG HUBs.

We look forward to seeing you there!

THE MELBOURNE TEAM

To all ICG Accredited Professionals,

We would like to invite you to the upcoming ICG Member Meeting on Wednesday, 15th February 2017 at The Rialto (InterContinental), Melbourne.

Join your professional peers for a unique evening of professional development, networking and discussion of the latest trends and developments in the industry.

Friends and new Members are welcome to join us for a Briefing session starting at 5.30pm.

All Members and Accredited professionals are welcome to enjoy a welcome drink and light refreshments before the start of the Member event at 6.00pm.

Agenda to be finalised:

I. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (6:00-6:35pm)

• Q&A

II. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & IP (6.35-7.40pm)

• Professionals and Client in Focus: Organisation Development capability
• Publications: New publications and best sellers
• Methods: New products and best sellers
• Learning and Development: 
• Services: New ICG website

BREAK: DINNER AND NETWORKING

III. BUSINESS UPDATE AND LATEST ICG DEVELOPMENTS

• MEL HUB Update
• Global CEO Report: David Moloney

Most importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to meet with other like-minded consultants committed to professional development and networking over a light dinner and drinks.

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See you there!
The Melbourne Team

To all ICG Professionals,   

We invite you to the upcoming ICG Accredited Professional event on Tuesday, 23rd May 2017 at the Radisson Blu, Sydney.

Join your peers for a unique evening of professional development and discussion of the latest trends, as well as a full review of ICG Australia’s performance.

All Members are welcome to bring a friend to the event to get a great feel for the form of our meetings and our professional community and join us for an informal drink from 5.30pm before the start of the event at 6.00pm.

Agenda:

I. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT  (6:00 – 6:30pm) 

• Guest speaker: Lee Hatton,  EGM Direct Banking NAB & CEO UBank
• Topic: UBank’s Transformation Story
  – Defining the brand’s vision and purpose
  – Empowering a winning culture
  – Delivering outstanding results
• Q&A

The meeting will be run as usual under Chatham House Rules.

II. ICG PLATFORM COMPONENTS  (6:30pm – 7:35pm)

New Professionals:
– Global Thought Leaders (GTL’s)
– New Practice Leaders (Communication and Regulation) Amanda Crews & Jean-Paul Monc
Clients in Profile:
– 90 second update from the lead at each of our current clients
Publications:
– IT Publication, Business Vision Diagnostic
Methods:
– Risk Watershed Optimisation (RWO)
Learning & Development:
– Free (ICW) Internal Consultants Workbench tools Global release
– New training brochure
Services:
​- New Sydney HUB location
– ICG Membership Survey

III. BUSINESS UPDATE AND LATEST ICG DEVELOPMENTS

• SYD HUB Update
• Global CEO Report: David Moloney

IV. DINNER AND NETWORKING (7:50pm onwards)

You’ll have the opportunity to meet with other like-minded consultants committed to professional development and networking over a light dinner and drinks.

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See you there!

The Sydney Team

To all ICG Accredited Professionals,

We would like to invite you to the upcoming ICG Member Meeting on Wednesday, 14th June 2017 at The Rialto (InterContinental), Melbourne.

Join your professional peers for a unique evening of professional development, networking and discussion of the latest trends and developments in the industry.

Friends and new Members are welcome to join us for a Briefing session starting at 5.30pm.

All Members and Accredited professionals are welcome to enjoy a welcome drink and light refreshments before the start of the Member event at 6.00pm.

Highlights of the agenda include:

I. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (6:00-6:35pm)

Mini-expo showcase of ICG methodologies and services:

The first part of our ICG Member meeting focuses on showcasing the building of a Consult Tech platform of new ICG methodologies and services.  The mini-expo format will give you the opportunity to meet the ICG Professionals behind award-winning and highly results driven services.  The format will be FAST; 8 minute sessions rotating across four out of six exhibitors. During the eight minute rotations, you can view demonstrations, understand training opportunities available and identify the opportunities for the Consult Tech platform within your own network.

We aim to help you provide added value to your clients and contribute to building your ‘anti-fragile’ income beyond your daily rates. For you to choose which four exhibitors you would like to spend your time with and to get the most out of your introduction, please take the short time to read the outlines located further below.

II. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & IP (6.35-7.40pm)

• Professionals and Client in Focus: Organisation Development capability
• Publications: New publications and best sellers
• Methods: New products and best sellers
• Learning and Development: How to use the new Workbench (ICW) Tool and ICG gdrive
• Services: Infotech IT Library focus on CIO Business Vision

BREAK: DINNER AND NETWORKING

III. BUSINESS UPDATE AND LATEST ICG DEVELOPMENTS

• MEL HUB Business update – incl FY17 account plan
• MEL HUB Update
• Global CEO Report: David Moloney

Most importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to meet with other like-minded consultants committed to professional development and networking over a light dinner and drinks.

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See you there!
The Melbourne Team

ICG Mini-expo – EXHIBITORS details

Table 1: ICG Robotic Process Automation (RPA) – Eric Jacobsen

We are in the age of Digital Transformation. Organizations must drive increasing value to their customers while lowering costs to remain competitive. Automation is the key to not only to improving customer loyalty, but also lowering the “cost to serve” and reducing risk. Automation enables transformation. Powered by Reveal Group, ICG’s Robotic Process Automation (RPA) provides an alternative sourcing option to human labour & outsourcing. Our digital workforce solution integrates with any system or application in the same way as a human. This frees up humans from repetitive work so they can deliver higher-value contributions across the organization.

Talk to Eric on how to help your clients save costs, eliminate errors and enhance their customer’s experience.

Table 2: ICG Amazon Readiness Assessment (ARA)- Jonathan Reeve

Retail is going through a period of disruptive change, and Amazon’s launch of physical retail operations in Australia is set to cause a further shift. Are you ready for Amazon? is a one-day workshop that draws on the latest thinking and weaves in practical learning from case studies to give you the tools to see your business in new ways and develop market-leading strategies to stay ahead. The Amazon Readiness Assessment is a diagnostic tool to benchmark your current strategic readiness for Amazon’s entry to your market which identifies high priority opportunities and threats.

Talk to Jonathan on how to help your clients (in retails, consumer goods and logistics companies) explore the disruption of traditional retail by online shopping and stay ahead of the game.

Table 3: ICG Skop.es app – Luke Farley

Skop.es is the first and only toolset dedicated to driving IT project outcomes.  Organisations depend on IT and Systems, typically running 3+ core systems. Churn rates average around 4-5 years, but 50% → 75% of projects fail to meet their objectives. Skop.es supports the capture of clearly defined outcomes and drives their achievement. It breaths life into governance and addresses the Critical Success Factors that undermine projects.

Key process support includes: Clear and detailed scoping, business case creation, IT system comparison & selection, stakeholder engagement, user acceptance and benefits maximization.

Talk to Luke about setting up a ‘client advocacy’ line of business that is a natural next step following digital transformation and IT strategy setting. With work areas including in project oversight, governance, vendor management and driving business benefits.

Table 4: ICG New Cyber security practice – Michael Trovato

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation says cyber risk remains the No. 1 concern for business today. Since 2013, over 7 billion data records have been lost or stolen and only 4% were encrypted. The recent WannaCry malware has again dramatically exposed the vulnerabilities that many organisations have to cyber security.  In Australia, on average, a cyber-attack costs an organisation US $4.3 million per incident. However, this cost increases significantly when factoring in flow-on effects such as business disruption, information loss or theft, revenue loss, regulatory impacts or the impact on brand and reputation.

Talk with Mike about cyber security and technology risk governance, management, and transformation services to boards, risk committees, and executive management and how we help key stakeholders understand the obligations and outcomes of effective cyber security.

Table 5: Applied design thinking operating framework – Kelvin Dart

A practical and lean approach to getting from the journey of ideation to prototyping decision making and execution phase. We have created a framework, tested and proven, using the best of current known frameworks including Google Venture Design Sprints, Safe Agile and Lean UX methods to ensure you identify 1) the problem you wanting to solve, 2) when the customer wants it solved by, 3) the business opportunity and 4) feasibility to execute.

Talk to Kelvin for new and easy ways of staying in contact with clients and help them identify where their priorities should really lie.

Table 6: Success in Selling Best Affiliate Forward Briefs – Chris Karopoulos

Chris is renowned across the ICG Global Network for his success in selling Best Affiliate Forward Briefs to clients. BAF’s lie at the heart of the ICG offering. Learn from the best how to sell BAF’s.

To all ICG Accredited Professionals,

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have tonight had to cancel this event.  The new date is still TBA and once we have confirmed we will update the event notice.

We do apologise should this have caused you any  inconvenience and hope you will be able to join us at the event on the new date.  

We would like to invite you to the upcoming ICG Accredited Professional Meeting on TBA2017 at The Rialto (InterContinental), Melbourne.

Join your professional peers for a unique evening of professional development, networking and discussion of the latest trends and developments in the industry.

Friends and new Members are welcome to join us for a Briefing session starting at 5.30pm.

All Members and Accredited professionals are welcome to enjoy a welcome drink and light refreshments before the start of the Member event at 6.00pm.

Agenda:

I. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (6:00-6:25pm)

• Guest Speaker: Graeme Willis – Non Executive Director RACV and Victorian Teacher Mutual Bank, HSW Managing Partner
• Title: “When Good Banks Break Bad – Impacts and Implications”. Graeme will share his career experience at three major institutions.
• Q&A

The meeting will be run as usual under Chatham House Rules

II. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & IP (6.25-7.35pm)

• Professionals and Clients in Focus
• Publications & Methods
• Learning and Development
• Services

BREAK: DINNER AND NETWORKING

III. BUSINESS UPDATE AND LATEST ICG DEVELOPMENTS

• MEL HUB Leadership Update
• Global CEO Report:

Most importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to meet with other like-minded consultants committed to professional development and networking over a light dinner and drinks.

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See you there!
The Melbourne Team