Project Management and Consultancy Services
HES undertook the Project Management Partner role for two large Collaborative Workplace Productivity Projects funded by the Commonwealth Department of Education Science and Training (DEST) in conjunction with lead universities, being the University of Newcastle and Charles Sturt University respectively. HES developed the successful submissions on behalf of each lead university in 2006, which resulted in grants of $6.1 million and $2.1 million over the next three years. There are 29 participating universities in a national procurement benchmarking programme and 17 in a Human Resources Electronic Information Management Project.
HES's highly skilled staff have undertaken a number of consultancies in the areas of Risk Assessment, Research Administration and Systems implementations, business process improvement, strategic planning and various other areas.
Cancer Institute of NSW
HES provided consultancy services for the Cancer Institute NSW (CINSW) centred on the implementation of the InfoEd Human Ethics module and procurement of the Clinical Trials and Grants/Contracts modules. HES has successfully partnered with the Cancer Institute to work hands on with all aspects of a large scale research management system implementation. HES has provided services in:
- Business case justification
- Procurement process support
- Requirements gathering and documentation
- Review and documentation of business processes and workflow, providing advice on areas for process improvement
- Management of data mapping, transformation and translation functions to facilitate data migration
- Mapping of processes to InfoEd functionality
- Detailed configuration of the InfoEd system to meet business process requirements
- Assistance with implementation of change management as a result of new technology and processes
- Development of User Acceptance Testing material
- Preparation of end user training material
- Overall project management support
HES staff have helped ensure continuity of the Cancer Institute InfoEd project by working in close partnership with both CINSW and InfoEd staff to realise a shared ideal - providing better administrative support to researchers.
