We prepare Australian organisations for successful transformation, system and operational change by diagnosing misalignment, identifying risk and maximising opportunity. Before a major business change, understand the impact of your people, processes, systems and outputs.
Assess whether your business is ready to successfully deliver a major project before committing time, cost and risk. Launch with a data-driven roadmap supported by business reporting dashboards.
Notitia's Business Readiness, Project Readiness and Change Readiness Assessments provide an insight into your people, processes, systems and outputs, led in person by our executive. Identify risks and opportunities, backed by performance reporting, dashboards and a business implementation roadmap, for data-driven decision making.
Clarity before major business decisions: validate assumptions, uncover new data, fill in gaps and plan for growth with evidence-based decisions that inform your strategic plan.
360 business insight: an assessment that provides a structured and comprehensive understanding of your business
Business data reporting tools & roadmap: a future-state plan, alongside data visualisation and reporting tools that measure performance & predict business outcomes.
The assessment examines your organisation from multiple perspectives to create a clear picture of current performance.
People: Understanding roles, responsibilities and decision-making structures, including how teams collaborate and how leadership gains visibility of performance.
Processes: Reviewing how work moves through the organisation, identifying inefficiencies, duplication and operational constraints.
Systems: Evaluating the platforms supporting operations, including reporting maturity, data integration and ability to support future growth.
Outputs: Assessing organisational results, including financial performance, operational metrics, reporting quality and decision-making effectiveness.
✓ Structured operational assessment broken into people, process, systems and output
✓ Performance visibility review
✓ Reporting ownership and accountability mapping
✓ Identification of data gaps and blind spots
✓ Executive summary findings document
✓ Formal debrief session with leadership
✓ A documented operational map and identified opportunities.
Using your data, we develop dashboards and reports that help leadership teams identify problems and understand operational impact across the organisation.
This phase explores key questions to identify any gaps:
✓ Do we have the right data to understand performance?
✓ Are our systems capable of supporting better reporting?
✓ Do our existing processes enable or limit results?
Scenario modelling and “what-if” analysis can then explore how potential changes may affect the business.
The result is a clearer view of how operational, system or process changes could influence overall performance.
With a clear understanding of business performance and data insights, the final phase focuses on determining how the opportunity should be addressed long term. This phase translates the findings into a structured roadmap for the business.
Key areas typically include:
✓ improving reporting and performance visibility
✓ strengthening systems and technology platforms
✓ realigning products or strategy
✓ addressing long-term risks such as technology, supply chain, skills or demand
You'll gain a practical roadmap that outlines how your organisation can evolve across people, processes and technology to support its future direction.
Our business readiness, project readiness and change readiness assessments examines your organisation from multiple perspectives to create a clear picture of current performance.
People: Understanding roles, responsibilities and decision-making structures, including how teams collaborate and how leadership gains visibility of performance.
Processes: Reviewing how work moves through the organisation, identifying inefficiencies, duplication and operational constraints.
Systems: Evaluating the platforms supporting operations, including reporting maturity, data integration and ability to support future growth.
Outputs: Assessing organisational results, including financial performance, operational metrics, reporting quality and decision-making effectiveness.
✓ Structured operational assessment broken into people, process, systems and output
✓ Performance visibility review
✓ Reporting ownership and accountability mapping
✓ Identification of data gaps and blind spots
✓ Executive summary findings document
✓ Formal debrief session with leadership
✓ A documented operational map and identified opportunities.
Using your data, we develop dashboards and reports that help leadership teams identify problems and understand operational impact across the organisation.
This phase explores key questions to identify any gaps:
✓ Do we have the right data to understand performance?
✓ Are our systems capable of supporting better reporting?
✓ Do our existing processes enable or limit results?
Scenario modelling and “what-if” analysis can then explore how potential changes may affect the business.
The result is a clearer view of how operational, system or process changes could influence overall performance.
With a clear understanding of business performance and data insights, we determine how risk mitigation and opportunities should be addressed long term. This phase translates findings and business data into a structured roadmap for the business.
Key areas typically include:
✓ improving reporting and performance visibility
✓ strengthening systems and technology platforms
✓ realigning products or strategy
✓ addressing long-term risks such as technology, supply chain, skills or demand
You'll gain a practical roadmap that outlines how your organisation can evolve across people, processes and technology to support its future direction.
Business & Project Readiness Assessment. Working with Notitia.
While the terms "business readiness" "project readiness" and "change readiness" are often used interchangeably, they serve slightly different purposes.
Business readiness assessment:
Focuses on the organisation as a whole. It evaluates operational performance, systems maturity, data visibility and organisational capability. This is typically conducted when leadership teams are evaluating strategic change or transformation opportunities. It will uncover how prepared an organisation is to deliver a major business or technology project successfully.
In our assessment we look at four key areas:
- people
- processes
- systems, and
- outputs.
By analysing how teams work, how systems support operations, and how results are measured, organisations gain a clear understanding of their current operating environment before committing significant time and investment to change.
This type of assessment helps organisations confirm what is working well, identify gaps and ensure the foundations are in place before launching large initiatives.
When should an organisation conduct a business readiness assessment?
A business readiness assessment is particularly valuable when organisations are considering projects such as ERP implementation, data and digital transformation programs, major system upgrades, operational restructuring, large capital investments, expansion into new markets, scaling operations and future-proof planning.
At these moments, leadership teams often ask:
- Are we ready to undertake this project?
- Do we fully understand how the business currently operates?
- Will our systems support the change we want to implement?
- What risks could disrupt the project?
A business readiness assessment provides structured answers to these questions.
Project readiness assessments focus on a specific initiative. It evaluates whether the organisation is prepared to successfully implement a particular proiect, such as an ERP implementation or major technology program.
While a project readiness assessment addresses different decision points to a business or change readiness assessment, we refer to them together as a single assessment because in many cases organisations need all perspectives to make informed decisions.
A project readiness assessment is a structured evaluation that determines whether an organisation is fully prepared to successfully deliver a specific project—before significant time, cost, or risk is committed.
It goes beyond planning to answer a critical question: “Will this project actually work in our business?”
A strong project readiness assessment examines four key areas:
People – Are the right skills, roles and decision-makers in place?
Processes – Do current workflows support the project, or create friction?
Systems & data – Are the existing platforms, integrations and data fit for purpose?
Outputs & performance – Do you have clear visibility of what success looks like and how it will be measured?
The outcome is typically a clear, evidence-based view of risks, gaps and constraints, along with practical recommendations to address them before implementation begins.
Why it matters:
A project readiness assessment helps you:
- Identify risks early (before they become expensive problems)
- Avoid investing in solutions that don’t align with how your business actually operates.
- Align stakeholders, priorities and expectations.
- Build a clear, data-driven roadmap for delivery.
How this differs from typical readiness assessments:
Most readiness assessments focus on change sentiment, how people feel about upcoming change.
A project readiness assessment focuses on operational reality, whether your business can actually deliver and sustain the project.
A change readiness assessment is a structured evaluation of how prepared an organisation’s people and culture are to successfully adopt and sustain a specific change.
A change readiness assessment is a structured evaluation used to determine how prepared an organisation—and its people—are to adopt and adapt to a specific change.It focuses on understanding whether employees, leaders and teams are aware, willing and able to support the change before it is implemented.
Typically, a change readiness assessment examines:
Awareness – Do people understand what the change is and why it’s happening?
Alignment – Are leaders and stakeholders aligned on the direction and priorities?
Capability – Do teams have the skills, training and resources required?
Adoption risk – Where might resistance, confusion or disengagement occur?
The output is usually a snapshot of organisational sentiment and change capability, highlighting areas that may impact adoption and engagement.Why it matters: Even well-designed projects can fail if people don’t adopt them.
A change readiness assessment helps organisations:
Identify resistance before rolloutImprove communication and engagement strategies.
Prepare teams with the right training and support.
Increase the likelihood of successful adoption.
How this differs from a project readiness assessment.
A change readiness assessment focuses on people and adoption, how individuals and teams feel about and respond to change.
A project readiness assessment focuses on operational delivery—whether the business, systems and processes are actually ready to support the change.
These three assessments are related, but they are not the same.
A business readiness assessment looks at the organisation as a whole. It helps you understand whether your business is operating in a way that can support growth, transformation or major investment. It examines how your people, processes, systems and outputs are working together, and where gaps, inefficiencies or risks may already exist.
A project readiness assessment looks at one specific initiative. It helps determine whether your organisation is ready to successfully deliver a particular project before significant time, money and effort are committed. This includes reviewing dependencies, resourcing, systems, data, risks and the broader operating environment around that project.
A change readiness assessment focuses on people and adoption. It assesses whether teams, leaders and stakeholders understand the change, are aligned around it, and are prepared to adopt it. This is usually centred on communication, training, capability, leadership support and resistance to change.
Notitia takes a connected view across business, project and change readiness, because in practice, they are all interdependent.
Our approach starts by understanding how your organisation actually operates—across people, processes, systems and data—before testing how a specific project will perform within that environment, and how it will be adopted by your teams.
This means you’re not just assessing whether a project looks good on paper, its about:
- Understanding whether it will work in your real operating environment.
- Identifying risks across delivery, performance and adoption before they become costly.
Rather than focusing only on sentiment or surface-level planning, we ground readiness in evidence, operational insight and real data.
Working with Australian-owned data and analytics company Notitia:
you can expect:
1. A clearer understanding of how your business is performing, where inefficiencies exist and what is limiting growth or performance.
2. Business reporting and dashboards that provide a snapshot into current performance and how potential changes may affect the business.
3. Data-driven evidence that informs a practical roadmap that outlines how your organisation can evolve across people, processes and technology to support its future direction.
How we do it:
We work closely, 1:1 with our clients' teams to understand how the business operates across people, processes, systems and data. Our directors develop a structured view of what changes are required before investing in new systems or transformation initiatives.
This involves engaging with stakeholders, analysing available data and mapping how different parts of the organisation connect.
Our approach is collaborative, ensuring that insights are grounded in real operational context and aligned to the organisation’s goals.
We empower leadership teams to make better decisions by improving visibility of performance across the business.
By bringing together data from different systems and aligning it with operational and financial outcomes, the team provides a clearer, evidence-based view of how the organisation is performing.
This enables leaders to evaluate strategic options with greater confidence.
Notitia has supported organisations across healthcare, government, private, FMCG and manufacturing, working on initiatives that involve data transformation, reporting, system implementation and operational improvement.
This cross-industry experience provides broader context when assessing performance, allowing the team to identify patterns, risks and opportunities that may not be visible within a single industry.
This includes helping leadership teams gain clearer visibility of performance, identify inefficiencies and prepare for major investments such as ERP and analytics platforms.
The work spans both advisory and delivery, which provides a practical understanding of what is required for projects to succeed.
Notitia is a data and digital transformation consulting firm with expertise in data, analytics, human-led design and web development. We focus on deeply understanding the business before recommending change.
Rather than starting with a predefined solution or technology, our approach is to analyse current performance, identify constraints and establish a clear baseline. This ensures that any recommendations are directly linked to measurable outcomes, rather than being driven by tools or frameworks.
Notitia supports both technology advisory and delivery. This means readiness assessments are informed by real implementation experience across data platforms, reporting solutions and system integrations. As a result, recommendations are practical and aligned to what can actually be delivered within the organisation.
As a boutique firm we ensure that our clients recieve 1:1 leadership and access to our directors.
The next strategic move should be based on a clear understanding of how the business is currently performing across all key areas.
When leadership teams have visibility into performance, constraints and opportunities, they can evaluate options such as growth, restructuring or investment with greater confidence.
Without this clarity, decisions are often reactive, driven by external pressure, system limitations or incomplete data rather than a clear view of the business.
Before making a major strategic change, leaders should ask:
- Do we have a clear and accurate view of current performance?
- Are our systems and processes enabling or limiting outcomes?
- Do we understand the root causes of the issues we are trying to solve?
- Do we have the data required to measure success?
These questions help ensure that decisions are based on evidence rather than assumption
When data cannot be trusted, decisions are often based on instinct rather than evidence.
A structured assessment (such as a business readiness assessment or project readiness assessment) helps validate data sources, improve reporting and establish a reliable view of performance so leaders can make confident, informed decisions. In many organisations, different teams rely on different versions of the truth.
This is particularly common where operational, financial and supply chain data are not aligned, making it difficult to reach consensus on performance.
Working with teams experienced in data integration and analytics helps resolve these inconsistencies and establish a single source of truth.
Notitia’s team brings together a combination of deep technical capability and practical operational experience, which is critical when working in environments where data, systems and real-world constraints intersect.
At a leadership level, the team is actively involved in delivery.
Notitia Founder and Managing Director, Alex Avery, works closely with clients to translate complex technical concepts into clear, usable outcomes for business and clinical stakeholders. Alex is passionate about applying analytics for societal benefits, having worked across Australian and global startups, Big 4 consulting and academia. Specialising in data strategy, analytics and human-centred design, Alex is known for helping organisations across government, healthcare, commercial and not-for-profit, turn complex data into practical, people-focused solutions. His approach is to bridge the gap between strategy and implementation, ensuring that data initiatives are grounded in how organisations actually operate.
Notitia Director, Pierre du Preez brings over 30 years' experience across finance, ERP and analytics, with a strong focus on understanding how businesses perform at an operational level. His work centres on helping leadership teams see how people, processes, systems and data interact before committing to major change. This is particularly important in complex environments such as FMCG, manufacturing and healthcare, where decisions have flow-on impacts across supply chains, workforce planning and service delivery.
Senior analytics consultants Arturo Ortega and Guilherme Matte focus on building reliable data foundations — from data engineering and pipeline optimisation through to dashboard development — ensuring that insights are not only accurate but also scalable and maintainable.
Analytics leadership and project management within the team is also strengthened by Louise Ayrewho brings an engineering and data science background into analytics delivery, with experience across industries including rail, automotive and energy systems. She focuses on translating complex datasets into structured reporting and dashboards, ensuring insights are reliable, clearly communicated and usable across different stakeholder groups.
On the design and development side, team leads Carolina Perez-Dilsizian and Livia Gu contribute to how those insights are experienced, applying human-centred design and modern web development practices to ensure that data is accessible, intuitive and usable for different user groups.
This combination of roles means Notitia is not limited to a single discipline. The team works across:
- Data analytics ensuring data is integrated, trusted and fit for purpose
- System and platform understanding, including cloud environments and tools such as Qlik Sense SaaS
- Operational performance and reporting, helping organisations understand how they are actually performing
- Digital product and interface development, ensuring outputs are usable by real people in real workflows.
Importantly, this is delivered in a way that reflects how organisations operate day to day.
Rather than treating data as a standalone technical exercise, Notitia’s team works alongside leadership, operational teams and end users to understand context — whether that’s hospital theatre scheduling, supply chain constraints in FMCG, or reporting requirements in government environments.
This is why the team is suited to complex environments. They are not only capable of building the technical solution, but also of understanding the operational implications, aligning with strategic intent, and ensuring that what is delivered can be adopted and used in practice.
It’s this ability to connect data, systems and operations, while keeping a clear focus on the end user, that underpins Notitia’s work across sectors.
Notitia's expert team is well equipped to help you to understand how to improve manufacturing effieciency through our business readiness assessment, reporting and roadmap.
How does a business readiness assessment help me to understand how to improve profitbility?
Understanding where a manufacturing business is underperforming requires visibility across production, supply chain, cost of goods and operational efficiency.
Common issues include inconsistent data, disconnected systems and limited visibility into true production costs.
Many organisations struggle to accurately measure profitability due to fragmented data or inconsistent reporting.
Establishing a clear baseline of performance is the first step in identifying where inefficiencies exist and where improvements can be made.
Expansion decisions should be based on a clear understanding of production capacity, operational efficiency, demand stability and profitability.
In many manufacturing businesses, growth is constrained not by demand, but by inefficiencies in production, supply chain or data visibility.
Assessing these factors first helps ensure expansion decisions are sustainable and commercially sound.
Organisations that improve reporting and data visibility typically see:
- clearer understanding of operational performance
- faster and more confident decision-making
- reduced reliance on manual reporting and spreadsheets
- improved alignment across teams.
Notitia has worked across public and private sector including FMCG, manufacturing, healthcare, not for profit and food distribution. We help leadership teams move from fragmented data to a single, reliable view of performance, enabling more effective operational and strategic decisions.
Notitia has worked across a wide range of industries and complex organisations where data is distributed across multiple systems and stakeholders. Read more about our clients and case studies here.
For example, Foodbank Victoria partnered with Notitia to improve how data is used across its operations. By improving data visibility and reporting, leadership teams gained clearer insight into operational performance, supporting planning and decision-making across a large-scale food distribution network. This demonstrates how structured analysis and improved reporting can create clarity even in complex environments. In environments like Foodbank Victoria, where operations span logistics, supply chain, partnerships and community services, having a clear and reliable view of data is critical. Notitia’s work focused on making that data more accessible and meaningful, allowing different parts of the organisation to work from a consistent understanding of performance.
Similarly, Fyna Foods Australia worked with Notitia to address limited operational visibility caused by siloed systems and manual reporting. Fyna was able to consolidate data into a single source of truth, giving teams across the business — from leadership to factory floor — access to real-time insights. This improved inventory management, production planning and cost analysis, while reducing the time spent preparing reports and enabling faster, data-driven decisions.
This approach has also been applied across healthcare and government clients. For example, West Gippsland Healthcare Group and Gippsland Health Alliance improved clinical data quality and reporting through cloud-based analytics, while South Western Sydney PHNtransformed its data environment to support hundreds of commissioned services with better visibility and collaboration.
Similarly, large-scale infrastructure programs such as Laing O'Rourke's work with Victoria's North East Link State Authority (NELSA) required real-time insights across complex project environments. It demonstrated how this approach scales across both operational and project-based organisations.
By simplifying and aligning data across these environments, organisations are better positioned to plan, prioritise and respond to change.
Our assessment follows a three-phase approach:
Phase one
5-Day or 15-Day Business Analysis$10K / $40K + GST
Phase two
Business Performance Reporting & Dashboards$50K + GST
Phase threeStructured Business Roadmap$10K + GST
Any key gaps in data, reporting, processes or systems can limit success.
Common signs a business may not be ready include:
- limited visibility of operational performance
- unreliable data across systems- unclear reporting ownership and accountability
- difficulty understanding profitability, efficiency or resource allocation.
A structured business analysis or readiness assessment helps organisations evaluate whether the foundations are in place before committing to significant investment.
This includes assessing how data flows across the organisation, whether systems support accurate reporting, and whether leadership teams have a clear and consistent view of performance.
We have designed our business readiness assessment to provide a clear, structured understanding of how your business operates today, where the gaps and risks exist, and whether the organisation is truly ready to move forward with transformation or major investment.