Business Optimisation, Cyber Security and Digital Transformation, Strategic Sourcing, and Capability Development
Akela prides itself on the quality of its senior leadership and team members who are leading experts in their fields.
Our blended approach provides you seasoned business leaders, leading-edge digital technologists, commercial, and supply chain specialists, to create the right outcomes in achieving your strategic business requirements.
Our industry experts come from real world environments and know how organisations work. Combining this knowledge and experience, Akela is uniquely placed to provide you with leading edge strategies and capabilities to deliver tangible business outcomes based on your specific needs.
Our Services and Capabilities
Our capability and service offerings represent how our organisation is structured, the services we deliver, and the business outcomes we aim to achieve for our clients.
The pinnacle of Akela’s strength is our ability to integrate business and technology expertise to solve complex problems. We strategically plan our delivery, blending services from our multiple business areas to deliver the best outcome to you.
There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution to your needs. That’s why we are platform and vendor-agnostic. We tailor the right approach for you and your organisation, and provide you with the following options:
A complete end-to-end solution
Modularised services allowing you to select the best solutions for your business operations
Blending our services to provide a multi-disciplined team approach
Outsource ‘as-a-Service’ type arrangement
Client Outcomes
Akela prides itself on the quality of its senior leadership and team members who are leading experts in their fields.
Our blended approach provides you seasoned business leaders, leading-edge digital technologists, commercial, and supply chain specialists, to create the right outcomes in achieving your strategic business requirements.
Our industry experts come from real world environments and know how organisations work. Combining this knowledge and experience, Akela is uniquely placed to provide you with leading edge strategies and capabilities to deliver tangible business outcomes based on your specific needs.
Akela Group
Practices: Represented by the inner circle. These are our individual practice areas. Each containing unique expertise, products, and practices.
Services: Represented by the middle circle. These are core services offered by each practice area.
Akela Group
Practices
Represented by the inner circle. These are our individual practice areas. Each containing unique expertise, products, and practices.
Services
Represented by the middle circle. These are core services offered by each practice area.
Scroll on each of the quadrants of our service wheel below to find out more.
Business Optimisation
Business and Government organisations alike need to continuously monitor their business operations against performance, economic conditions, budgets, expenditures, staffing levels and expertise, technology innovation, and changing customer requirements, to optimise business outputs through efficiency dividends.
Capability and Innovation
We believe strongly in pushing the boundaries of contemporary thinking, products, and services and work closely with visionaries to this to our clients. Our research and development team are continuously working hard to develop or refine ideas, processes, and technologies to ensure we provide leading edge capabilities to you.
Strategic Sourcing
Akela’s strategic sourcing follows a systematic method of acquiring goods and services from suppliers based on your organisation’s strategic objectives, and typically includes a tailored total cost management and value chain analysis. Akela applies different sourcing strategies to help you acquire fit for purpose products or services, and analyse aspects such as spend value, risk, and supply market characteristics. As a key component of supply chain management, Akela’s process represents a shift from conventional tactical level purchases to buy strategically and collaboratively. Akela works with you to establish well-planned service acquisitions that considers enterprise level spending trends and future state requirements.
Cyber Security and Digital Transformation
Akela works closely with you to integrate the right digital technologies across various aspects of your orgnisation to fundamentally change how it conducts its business operations and delivers increased value to your customers or stakeholders. Akela also integrates relevant cyber security capabilities and practices that are designed to protect your digital technologies, data, and critical infrastructure to mitigate cyber-attacks that cause damage, manipulation, unauthorised access, or data theft. As your organisation embraces digital technologies, cyber security becomes more critical.
Who We Are
Founded in 2020, Akela Group (Akela) is an Australian-based strategic advisory and managed services company that is designed to support C-Suite executives through:
Business optimisation, business continuity, and organisational change
Digital transformation, cyber security, and risk management
Commercial services, procurement and contract management, and strategic vendor management
Providing capability development, uplift, and innovation across your organisation
Solution Options
There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution to fit your needs. We tailor the right approach for you and provide the following options:
A complete end-to-end solution
Modularised services to select the best solutions for your business operations
Blending our services to provide a multi-disciplined team approach
“Akela were engaged to lead the design and implementation of the ServiceNow IT service management platform across the Agency’s Cyber Security and Corporate IT Branch. The platform also needed to be positioned to incorporate other business units over the following 2 years.
The Akela team worked closely with all stakeholders to ensure accurate requirements were captured, developed rapid proof of concepts, and confirmatory testing done at each stage.
Akela were highly successful in achieving the required end state, placing the Agency in an excellent position to expand the platform enterprise-wide, as well as integrating key strategic vendors and service delivery partners.”
Mr Tony Kitzelmann – Chief Information Security Officer. Australian Digital Health Agency – Digital Transformation
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“Akela was engaged to conduct an enterprise-wide supply chain maturity assessment of KTC Group to identify capability gaps, and appropriate remediation actions to reduce our supply chain costs, improve gross margins performance, improve operational and order fulfilment performance, increase order volume capacities, and improve customer satisfaction outcomes across our Asia Pacific, Mid East and Gulf States, North America, and European Regions.
By using a highly skilled small team, Akela achieved the impossible by designing and implementing a world class enterprise-wide business optimisation and transformation program targeted at remediating our critical pain points.
The Akela team focused on just the important issues, enabling them to successfully deliver the program well within the timeframe that we had set. The success of the program has positioned KTC Group to achieve its strategic goal of growing to a $500 million per year company within 5 years”.
Mr Chan Hiang Kiat – Chief Executive Officer. KTC Group – Business Optimisation
$100M global technology and retail goods distributor company.
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“The Akela team developed and conducted one of the best exercises that I have been involved in. The scenario of starting with a cyber incident with one of the aviation organisations, then over time the realisation that it was escalating to a Sector level, and then to a national level crisis management activity – we have not considered that before – but it is something that we need to address internally – and as a Sector. I really enjoyed the serial injects as well – the reports and products that your team developed looked so realistic”.
Mr Marino Retnasingham – QANTAS Chief Information Security Officer. Australian Aviation Cyber Council – Cyber Security Crisis Management Exercise
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“Akela developed and implemented a 5-year procurement strategy for the Division that needed to consider detailed planning and the life cycles of diverse technologies and logistics services, all with the overarching objective of bolstering Australia’s national security capabilities.
The strategy supported senior leadership in being able to determine the cost, quality and service delivery outcomes for each of their small, medium, and major procurements and contractual arrangements with all our suppliers.
The implementation of the strategy also provided the Department with a better understanding of its supplier ecosystem and which supplier relationships needed attention and strengthening.
Akela enabled the Department to develop a holistic view of its supply chain ecosystem, procurement, and contractual obligations, and can make better informed evidence-based strategic decisions on contractual and service delivery matters”.
Mr Rohan Wilson – Director Enforcement Technologies and Logistics Division. Department of Home Affairs – Strategic 5 Year Procurement Strategy and Implementation
