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Such as it is.
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. - Henry Ward Beecher

 

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1. BAL Consulting Pty Ltd – Contact Details top
Company ACN: 062 643 958    CEO Profile
Address: Suite 1908, 168 Kent Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia with partners in the major Australian State Capitals, the USA, UK, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, India, Israel, Hong Kong and Singapore since 1978.
Telephone: +61 414 250 437
Email: info@bal.com.au 
Web :
bal.com.au, bal.nu, balconsulting.com, aft.vg, atpost.com and 1con.com
2. Specialisation top
Our core business is bridging business with technology, professional services including investment analysis, customer-user-product requirements analysis, feasibility studies, data, application, network and enterprise architecture, pre-sales support, evaluations, and implementation support, in particular in the messaging, consulting postal services,  integration, wireless technologies, web application and database areas including development and project management, and provision of expert resources. Case Study

BAL's Intellectual Property focuses on messaging research, hybrid and inbound postal messaging and logistics now on sale, see our investor presentation. We always seek talent and welcome applications for association or partnership.

Registered ® Class 42 Trademark 978492 granted: services being intellectual property consultancy and computer consultancy services in relation to: telecommunications, messaging, postal services and logistics, wireless, internet, intranet and e-business.

Key services include:

·       Strategic Sales Support including presales, channel sales and complex sales support, market research and Business Case Development

·        Business Process Analysis

·        Business Recovery and Alignment

·        Coaching for Board and Executive

·        Strategic Technology Forecasting

·        Identification of Market Trends

·        Identification of New Revenue Opportunities

·        ROI, NPV, IRR, EVA and Knowledge Capital Analysis

·        Intellectual Property Management

·        R & D Commercialisation

·        New Business Development

·        Vendor and Outsourcing Performance Analysis

·        Business and Technology Risk Analysis, Mitigation and Planning

·        Enterprise architecture frameworks including FEAF, Zachman and Togaf

·        CMM: Capability Maturity Model assessment

·        SPICE: Software Process  Improvement and Capability dEtermination

·        Audit of ISO 9000-Series Quality, IEEE Software Engineering and MIL Standards

·        Strategic Reviews

·        Project Rescue and Restructuring

·        Arbitration, Mediation and Negotiation Support

·        Board and CEO Advisory Services

·        Mentoring

·        Lobbying

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. - Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defence

What are our specialised skills? The company specialises in postal consulting of postal services and logistics, wireless technology, E-Commerce, Internet, messaging and postal services consulting, professional services and project management. The group has extensive experience on networking having worked for years with the Telstra Network Technology Group. The group has specialists in database and applications including Oracle. We can provide skills for the whole life-cycle including project managing the implementation and deployment. Forty major customers since 1991.
Example of a major assignment: Telstra Big Pond Intranet, Web Hosting and Messaging have been project managed by the group. The contract resources for Big Pond Intranet messaging were arranged via the group. All the product marketing and development deliverables for these projects were provided, all Telstra parties including Product Management, development and operations, liaison with Infrastructure and WAN Services were handled by the group.  top

Intellectual Property

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

BAL specialises in patentable technology and trade secrets for postal services, messaging, e-commerce fulfillment and methods of payment. BAL professional services include evaluation of new Intellectual Property and Initial Public Offerings, financial modeling, market research into new Internet and wireless technology services and assistance in patenting new inventions, preparation of business plans and advise in finding partners. We advise on the Valuation of Knowledge Capital.

We encourage Idea Submission, promote the best ideas to investment readiness and may assist in capital raising, too. Our global network of advisors assists us in evaluating the potential.
 
Get e-valuations® - our new fixed price e-service for evaluating e-business concepts. Intellectual property on offer includes:

Overview of Hybrid Mail and Messaging IP
Introduction to @Fulfillment
Introduction to @Post

Introduction to myphone@directories
Messaging Anti-Spam Intellectual Property
Public Hybrid Mail and Messaging Research
Investor area of Hybrid Mail and Messaging
Overview of Electronic Commerce IP
Investor area of Electronic Commerce

We sell Intellectual Bandwidth always on tap for Indefeasible Rights of Use for up to 20 years.

 Services and Products  

We offer customer-user-product requirements analysis, feasibility studies, assessment of  productivity, knowledge and Intellectual Property, enterprise, data, network, application and system architecture, pre-sales support, evaluations, implementation support and project management for postal services, Internet services fulfilment and electronic commerce e-services including applications, databases, directory and messaging services. We practice formal enterprise architecture frameworks including FEAF, Zachman and Togaf. We provide Benchmarking, CMM: Capability Maturity Model assessment, SPICE: Software Process  Improvement and Capability dEtermination and support application of ISO 9000-series Quality Management Standards.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. - Andy Rooney

Technical Support Services: top

Training On-site, Phone & Email Support, Documentation & Newsletter as required

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.          Theodore Roosevelt

3. Business Structure top

When was our company established? In business since 1978.

Do you have interstate affiliates? most major Australian State Capitals, the USA, UK, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, India, Israel, Hong Kong and Singapore
Total number of customers: 40+ - possibly hundreds via the network
Size and activities: A network of more than 40 consultants, contractors, academics and other professionals.

R&D 40% Training 10% Marketing 15% Sales 10% 
Administration 5% Support 10% Consultants 10% 

% revenue generated from: Hardware:  0%;   Support:  0%;  Value Added Software:  0%  Professional Services and Consulting:  90%;  Training & Skills Transfer:  10%;  3rd Party Products:  0%
Which vendors/suppliers/developers do we have a marketing / technical / business relationship with? Which services or products in particular: It is against company policy to sell hardware or software or be financially involved with any vendor. BAL Consulting P/L is a pure professional services provider and has no shares or any other financial interest in any vendor. 

       

Helicopter View of Key Projects

Hindsight talks of consequences of what was done but is oblivious of any other
course that was not followed - Winston Churchill

 

Client          

Budget 

Users

Ratio Bus/ Technology

Role

Life-Cycle

Type

 

Telstra 1

 

$15m+

 

300+ 

50% Busi-ness &50% Technology

 

Leader

Full from concept to production

Business Support System

 

Telstra 2

 

$5m+

 

100+

 

80-20

 

Leader

Full from concept to production

New Product for Big Pond for Business

PriceWater-house PwC

 

$5m+

60

50-50

Project Director

Implement and Data Conversion

Stock Broker support and systems

 
KPMG

<1m  to $300m


100+

 
90-10

Manage-ment Consultant


Early

Bus Case, Invest Review

AMP Bank

$40m

Tens

30-70

Manager

Late

Infrastructure

TAFE NSW

$5m+ pa

100+

30-70

Program Manager

Full

Infrastructure

Energy Australia

$10m

50

50-50

Business

Architect

Mid-to-Late

Energy Trading

ShieldTel

Up to $80m

50

80-20

Director

Full

Broadband Investment

 

Unisys R&D

$2-to-5m multiple

 

100+

 

20-80

R&D Manager

Mid-to-Late

 

ICT R&D

Defence

$100m+ multiple

100+

20-80

Test & QA Manager

Full

R&D

RTA Drives

$100m

Tens

80-20

Mgmt Cons

Mid-to-Late

All

Westfield

$1m multiple

Tens

70-30

Mgmt Cons

Various - Review

Technology Advisory


       
        Vendor Management Experience

The difference between a used car salesman and an ICT vendor is that the used car salesman knows what he is selling - anon

Customer

Prime Contractor

Vendors

ShieldTel
 

APCN2

NEC, Siemens, Layer2, Cisco, Lucent, 45 regional carriers

KPMG

ICE ITC Practice

Telstra, Optus, Layer2, Leighton

Energy Australia

CSC

Katestone Scientific, OSIX, IBM and Oracle

Telstra Bigpond

Hewlett-Packard

Netscape, Cisco, Uniq and Compaq

AMP Bank

EDS

Logica, Ericsson, HP, Compaq and DEC

TAFE NSW

DEC

Microsoft, Novell

Telstra NTG

IBM GSA

Sun, Oracle, SAS Institute, Coopers & Lybrand & Cisco

ICCH

Price Waterhouse

DEC

BAL Research

Hybrid Mail and Messaging Research

More than 1,000 Postal Service & Messaging Vendors

NSW Government

8 Departments
3 Corporations

Accenture, Bentley, Figtree, Fujitsu, HP, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Mincom, SAP & Siebel

 

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