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Corporate Projects

In this left hand column, you will find a selection of project summaries from the corporate consulting portfolio of Kevin Hindle and other members of the Mentor Entrepreneurship Group. Though MENTREG was founded as recently as 2012 to network the talents of the world’s premier research-based innovation and entrepreneurship consultants,...

ARUP

Founded by one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs, ARUP has grown to be a global firm of consulting engineers, designers, planners, architects and specialist consultants. They built the Sydney Opera House. ARUP helps people build dreams. MEG has helped ARUP Australia build entrepreneurial capacity. MEG consultant, Kevin Hindle and colleagues...

ING

ING is the biggest financial company in the world yet it decreed that, unless its innovative Icehouse project received half its financing from local Australian capital it would not be built. Traditional firms were loathe to attempt to value the project because it was so innovative in the Australian context...

Australian Association Of Philanthropy

A Multi-Component Research Project Examining Patterns, Trends And Aggregate Value Of The Non-Profit Sector Of The Australian Economy. Philanthropy is a little-studied phenomenon in Australia. This project will be the basis of an on-going data base on the “third sector” of the Australian economy. A combination of quantitative and qualitative research...

Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia

Attitudinal research directed at better communication of careers information (went on to implement the recommendations).  Study won a special Golden Target Award from the Public Relations Institute of Australia as the best marketing research underpinning a Public Relations campaign....

Institution of Engineers, Australia

Comprehensive strategic design of a new venture designed to provide continuing education and training to Australia’s Engineering Workforce.  Included marketing research, organisational and operational design, product range design and creation of a flexible, computerised managerial accounting and forecasting system....

Apple Computer Australia Pty Ltd

An analysis of the marketing implications for Apple Computer of users’ perceptions of the Information Technology Industry and the nature of Information Technology departmental organisation in Australian Enterprises....

Elders Rural Finance & Fosters Brewing Limited

The business, Wirrilla Pty Ltd, is the biggest single exporter of fresh Asparagus to the Japanese market but was so ‘debt wrecked’ that Elders had all but accepted the need to ‘fire-sell’ it for a massive loss.  The project proceeded from a thorough capital re-structuring through a market-based strategic management...

Rental And Finance Limited

This consultancy involved the development, computerised financial modelling and selling of a sophisticated and unique financial instrument for a large financial institution....