In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell

Devil's Definition of a Consultant:   shows up even though never called; wants to get paid for an answer you already knew; to a question you never asked; and does not know anything about your business.

Content

Our Firm

Mission

Philosophy

Methodology

Strategic Sales Support

Valuation of Knowledge Capital

Board and Executive Advisory

Business Exit Strategy & Valuation

Services

Free Consultation and Pro Bono

IT&T Planning and Selection

Wireless, E-commerce and Internet, Intranet, Extranet I²E Consulting

Systems Integration and Project Management

Intellectual Property

Publications

Clients

Investors

Key Projects

Vendors

Our Firm top

On the three ways to ruin:

At BAL, we strive to lead in the invention, research and development of the industry's most advanced information and communications technologies, specialising in postal services, logistics and messaging Intellectual Property. We are 100% self-funded and debt free; all our consulting profits are invested in our R&D of Hybrid and Inbound Mail, Delivery Point Logistics and in general Postal Services Innovation. We translate these advanced technologies into value for our customers through our professional services and consulting. Our differentiator as a consultancy is our unique ability to bridge business with technology and to offer Business Exit Advice & Valuation services including Knowledge Capital Appraisal and comprehensive Valuation. See our consulting Case Study.

BAL Consulting P/L has its roots as an Australian technology management consultancy specialising in bridging business with technology and in particular for telecommunications, postal consulting of postal services, messaging, e-business, wireless, and Internet Consulting. The company has developed extensive Intellectual Property in hybrid and inbound postal mail and messaging, logistics and messaging research, now on sale, see our investor presentation. Our focus is on innovation and intellectual property. We are constantly searching for future winners.

BAL's head office is in Sydney, Australia with associates in the major Australian State Capitals, the USA, UK, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, India, Israel, Hong Kong and Singapore since 1978. We always seek talent and welcome applications for association or partnership.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? - Frank Scully

BAL Consulting's mission is to provide timely, cost-effective, and practical business solutions of high quality and added value that meet our clients' business requirements.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement. - Charles M. Schulz (Snoopy)

We are a group of principal consultants each with specialised skills. Each of our consultants has managed his or her own consulting business successfully.

Our philosophy is to offer our services only in areas in which the consulting group has outstanding intellectual assets, practical and proven experience in providing business solutions.

Our philosophy is against having a generalist outlook and trying to be all things to all men.

We specialise in the provision of professional services for postal services, logistics, telecommunications research and consulting, e-business, e-commerce and e-services, messaging & collaboration, data warehousing, middleware, application, database and network design, implementation and support as IT&T enablers to implement strategic planning and business process re-engineering.

We are a service only company, and guarantee our clients against having any interest in product vendors; BAL Consulting does not accept vendor assignments and does not have any financial interest in any vendor.

All our consultants have a degree and/or are certified professionals with a minimum of ten years of experience; we do not contract 'trainees' at our Clients expense.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'  -  John F. Kennedy

Methodology top

Though this be madness, yet there is method in it - William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. - John Russell

Strategic Sales Support top

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant - Alan Greenspan,

Valuation of Knowledge Capital top

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. - Seneca, Epistles

Knowledge Capital® Assessment
Knowledge Capital Resources
Productivity and Knowledge Capital Measures
Ben Livson's Valuation of Startups
Presentation on Knowledge Valuation
Valuation of Startups

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell

Board and Executive Advisory top

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. - Charles M. Schulz

• Business Case Development

• Business Process Analysis

• Business Recovery and Alignment

• Coaching: Board, Corporate 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

• Strategic Reviews

• Restructuring

• Arbitration, Mediation and Negotiation Support

• Board and CEO Advisory Services

• Mentoring

• Lobbying

• Futurology

We have identified "How to Exit?" as the most critical and neglected business problem in our 25 years of consulting. Exit is too often associated with failure of being forced to sell or liquidate as opposed to a well planned realisation of value. Many business plans excel in how to build a business up to break-even to raise the initial capital whilst many CEOs excel in short term profitability and in growing the business by acquisition or other investment which often leads to high levels of debt whereas low levels of debt are disparaged as non-performing "lazy" capital.

Few CEOs & Boards have a proper exit strategy except to obtain further investment (debt) by vaguely promising a trade sale or listing in a few years ... high levels of debt and the ever changing market dynamics result in  shareholders in many businesses in the end loosing all or most of their investment. We specialise in Exit Consulting:

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. - Robert Service

We offer services for:

Telecommunications and Information Technology Planning and Selection  top

The scars of others should teach us caution. - Saint Jerome, Letter

We provide Feasibility Studies and Product Marketing Support in IT&T, in particular of Internet/Intranet/Extranet/Electronic Commerce/e-services. As an example, we provided the original architecture and  project management for parts of Telstra Big Pond for Business: Intranet web hosting, messaging and directory services. Our services include:

• Business planning
• Preparing companies for sale
• Support for M&A and MBO investment
• Preparation of Tender documents
• Analysis and Design of Telecommunications Services
• Evaluation, Benchmarking and Selection of hardware, databases, software and communications as integrated system solutions
• Valuation of companies and business opportunities including start-up and venture capital projects
• Projections and Forecasting

Are you looking to improve bridging your business with technology? At BAL we are here to help you make best use of technology. That’s why we are offering you a free consultation and audit of your existing systems and processes in order to help you take control of your technology and use it to empower your organisation.

BAL takes pride in its Pro Bono work for non-profit organisations such as IEEE and ACM. Also, we have helped many talented post graduate students.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. - Will Rogers

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. - Joaquin Setanti

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.  - Rod Serling

• System Requirement Specification
• Interface Control Documents
• Project, Configuration Management, Quality and Test Plans
• Risk Assessment, Issues Management, Project Reviews and IT&T Management
• Enterprise architecture frameworks including FEAF, Zachman and Togaf
• Architectures: Business, Enterprise, Solution & Technical
• Architectural Blueprints and Roadmaps for Enterprise
• Vendor Management
• Project Rescue
• CMM: Capability Maturity Model assessment in partnership with
  Software Engineering Consultants Inc. SECI
• ITIL: IT Infrastructure Library
• SPICE: Software Process  Improvement and Capability dEtermination
• Audit of ISO 9000-Series
  
   

            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
 

BAL Consulting P/L™ Intellectual Property is for sale, see our investor presentation. Investors primarily targeted are:

1. Consulting and professional services firms valuing the purchase of a telecommunications IT&T specialist consultancy in Sydney.
2. Parties valuing our Intellectual Property in Postal Services and Logistics including hybrid postal messaging.

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

The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)