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Business /Government Relations
and The Business Planning Process Major changes in markets, in marketing, and the overall competitive environment are challenging many of the ‘traditional’ policies and attitudes of business management. Business strategies have to respond to the realities of government policies in a changing societyif they are to remain viable in what is now a most competitive ‘open market’ environment. Adjusting to these new realities requires an open mind and a thorough understanding of the dimensions of the current economic and political situation. Corporate Interlink’s expertise and objectivity can develop the objective perspective needed by a business to be successful in its inter-actions with Government. In reviewing Government policy and regulatory initiatives to assess their implications for your business strategies and planning, it is essential that one is both timely and accurate. Timeliness and accuracy are ensured by continual scrutiny of a wide variety of information resources, published or unpublished, formal or informal. This ongoing scrutiny, as well as rapid response to client's requests, is a key feature of Corporate Interlink's services. As both management consultants and economists, our role is to guide our clients to, and through, the best business-economic assessment and the data that is available - to help solve their business problems. We seek, however, to go beyond simply ‘economics’ and use our experience and judgment to assess and anticipate the unquantifiable links connecting economic and political developments and management policy. In Australia, the Business /Government relations process has moved from Government policy and regulation drafted by influence and ‘politics’, to Government policy based on in-depth assessments and longer term economic judgments. Canberra is a city full of industry association secretariats pressing their industry’s view on Government. Additionally there are lobbyists / public relations consultants which specialise in advertising and event - based campaigns. Our consultancy role is to provide clients with objective, thorough, and timely analysis and advice on the realities of the processes of Parliamentary functions of Government and its bureaucracy. Our goal is to help business make sound decisions on how prospective Government policy and regulatory initiatives could impact on it and how these decisions could be either influenced and changed during their development or, after they have been made, how they can be accommodated into your planning and management processes - so that ‘problems become opportunities’. Even firms with extensive managerial structures often find it useful to seek outside advice. There is no substitute for objective, well-balanced, and timely analysis on the constantly developing legislative and regulatory environment. The new ‘rules of the game’ in Business / Government relations, when seeking to achieve the best result for business from Government initiatives, depend more on substance and less on seeking political ‘deals’ through supposed political influence. Political relationships only provide the broader context. What really matters are ideas, not ideology, soundly based and economically rational arguments, not influence-seeking and special pleading. Corporate Interlink and its associated consultancy, The Business Planning Group, offer the opportunity to combine the best in current management theory and practice consultancy advice, with an in-depth understanding of the Government policy and regulatory environment impacting on business.
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