The Circumstances
The NSW Department of Climate Change, Environment, Energy & Water (DCCEEW) is a large government department, which has approximately 6,700 FTE, spread across various entities.
SpencerMaurice was commissioned by DCCEEW to undertake a rapid functional review of all of the agencies and entities within the Department, to identify opportunities to reduce duplication of function, and improve efficiencies and organisational performance.
The following entities were included in the review:
- Biodiversity, Conservation and Science Group (BCS)
- National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS)
- Heritage NSW
- Water Group
- Energy, Climate Change and Sustainability Group (ECCS)
- Corporate Services Group
- Office of the Secretary
- Energy Corporation of NSW (EnergyCo)
- Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT)
- Environmental Trust
- Environment Protection Authority (EPA)
- Lord Howe Island Board (LHIB)
- Taronga Zoo
- Jenolan Caves Trust
The review examined all functions within DCCEEW, including:
- All Corporate and enabling services functions.
- Strategy and Policy functions.
- Delivery and implementation functions.
Our Approach
- Extensive program of stakeholder consultations
- Organisational assessment and operating model redesign
- Co-design approach to options development
Outcomes Delivered
- An extensive program of stakeholder and workforce consultations, delivered primarily remotely, using online collaboration tools.
- A mapping of current functional structure, with SWOT analysis.
- Identification of areas of overlap or duplication of function.
- Identification of opportunities to generate efficiencies.
- Identification of functional gaps.
- Comparative benchmarking analysis of operating models for similar entities.
- Design and facilitation of co-design workshops .
- Development of a proposed revised operating model for corporate services
- A high-level implementation roadmap
- A substantial report
