NOVEMBER 2011

Volume: 9   Issue: 2

Welcome to the November 2011 edition of Strategon's Newsletter where you'll find the latest news on Strategon's work with some of Australia's leading companies and how we've played a key role in their continued growth and development. To find out how our team can further assist your company, contact us at info@strategon.com.au or follow us on Facebook or Twitter. The Strategon Team

STRATEGY Outsourced Financial Management Does your business need better financial management? Are you unable to justify employing a full time financial     management resource? Do you need advice on growing and measuring the value     of your business over time? If so, Strategon has the solution with Outsourced Financial     Management services. We provide the outsourced services of a: - Finance Director; - Chief Financial Officer; and/or - Financial Controller. The ideal client who can benefit from this outsourced service is one who cannot justify employing a full-time CFO or Financial Controller but has the requirement for high level financial control or indeed the provision of the full financial function for one or two days a week or once a fortnight, monthly or quarterly such as for the preparation and checking of the BAS return and other statutory requirements. Your business may have a bookkeeper who performs daily tasks such as data input, invoicing, payroll and debtors and creditors but requires an overseeing and monitoring role and someone to provide the higher level services such as budgeting and cash flow management, working capital funding, management reporting and corporate governance and company secretarial functions. Strategon offers the following services: - Strategic financial management including ongoing    measurement of business value - Business planning - Succession and growth planning - Financial control - Company secretarial and corporate governance - Treasury and funding - Accounting and bookkeeping - Cash flow management - Budgeting and performance measurement - Management reporting - Management and shareholder meeting facilitation - Services of ATO Registered BAS Agent - Year-end account preparation - Turnaround and insolvency financial management - Investment and sale ready strategies - Auditing, reconciliations and financial system quality control - Specialist services such as:    due diligence; feasibility studies; shareholders agreements;    funding proposals; information memorandums and    valuations - Access to our alliance partners for other specialist services    such as legal, HR, IT and tax accounting If you are interested in any of these services please contact Damian (damian.chown@strategon.com.au) for a no obligation complimentary meeting.     COMMERCIALISATION Backyard Innovation Awards Strategon client Voztec (www.voztec.com) has been shortlisted in The Backyard Innovations Category of the Australian Innovation Awards. These awards were open to both individuals and teams in a range of professional categories and one general public category. A panel of eminent judges short-listed five entries in each professional category as finalists to be featured in a dedicated section for The Australian Innovation Challenge published in The Weekend Australian, and online. The Backyard Innovation category covers inventions by the general public that are not yet on the market but are at an advanced stage, with a prototype. It includes inventions with the potential to make a difference to our lifestyles, environment, work and play, ranging from better domestic appliances to clever agricultural or construction technology. Good Luck Voztec.     CAPITAL   Export Market Development Grants Closing Don’t forget all applications for EMDG for the 2011 financial year must be lodged before 30 November. If you are considering making an application and have not yet done so, please contact Damian Chown of our Sydney Office on 02 9660 6641 urgently to arrange a time to lodge.       INTERNATIONAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT   Congratulations to TTG Transportation Technology, a finalist of the 2011 Premier's NSW Export Awards Good exporting is all about developing a profit from your export sales and good profitability flows from having a sound sustainable export business. TTG, a leader in energy efficiency software for rail is a finalist in the small business category.     PEOPLE   Alliance with Victorian TAFE Development Centre brings positive feedback Strategon has formed a relationship with this organisation, which supports the development of the Vocational Education sector workforce in both public and private Registered Training Organisations in Victoria, to deliver a range of programs for educators and senior managers in the sector. The programs are part of Strategon’s suite of Building Successful Enterprise Partnerships Programs for the VET sector, which have run successfully in SA, NSW, Queensland and now Victoria, over the past six years. The programs can be conducted in house for a Registered Training Organisation or as part of TDC’s public programs. Successful conduct of the Building Sustainable Partnerships with Industry and Creating an Entrepreneurial Culture programs in public mode in Melbourne and in house for Sunraysia TAFE in Mildura in 2011, has led to Strategon being asked to expand its offerings in the TDC Calendar for 2012. Facilitator, Wendy Taylor, Strategon’s Principal Consultant in Workforce Development, says ...” the in house version offers an Institute the opportunity to build a common platform of understanding of the changes needed in a contestable market, across business development, educators and administration and student support services staff. This allows the RTO to move forward on challenging business goals with some critical mass of committed staff.” Response from participants, to the in house version has been particularly positive. Similarly, the senior managers and business development personnel who attended the Entrepreneurial Culture program as a group from an Institute, benefitted strongly from joint work on development of their Institute’s change agenda. The full suite of programs Strategon offers for the VET sector includes: For educators: - Enterprise Learning Consultant Program - Building Sustainable Partnerships with Industry - Capacity Building for Enterprise Engagement - Marketing and Selling your Professional Education Services For Business Development personnel: - Marketing and Selling your Professional Education Services - Advanced Partnering Skills - VET Business Processes For Senior / Executive Managers: - VET Business Processes - Building an Entrepreneurial Culture - Educational Leadership of Change. For further information contact: - Peter Graves, Director, 0418 851 023 peter.graves@strategon.com.au - Wendy Taylor, Principal Consultant, 0407 603 534, wendy.taylor@strategon.com.au

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