Our Services

Project sponsors provide financial and influence funding and support for projects.  To be successful, they need their investments to provide guaranteed returns. Our consultants implement powerful project management practices to reduce  surprises and increase the likelihood of projects being completed within established constraints. This in turn helps to reduce uncertainty for the sponsors.

For senior executives, projects are a means to an end. They help to deliver the strategic plan for the organization as well as supporting other objectives.  Our strong PM's are a critical success factor for any project, helping Senior Managers quantify risk and understand constraints, in order to meet their cost, scope and schedule baselines.

We recognize that often internal resources must divide time between projects.  Our Project Managers also support project resources, often applying a functional matrix model.  With appropriate project management skills being applied to their projects, the team ownership increases and communication improves.

DueNorth Consulting resources will increase the odds of your project's success, by applying proven project management techniques, templates and technical solutions to every project.

DueNorth Consulting provides a variety of services aimed at improving the comptrollership and governance function within its clients. Our focus is always risk-based - in other words, we recognize that the resources of our clients are not endless, and that there must be balance between cost and outcome.

Our services include:

 •   policy and procedure development

•   risk-based financial policy frameworks

•   risk-based prioritization matrices

•   corporate risk management frameworks

•   financial management frameworks

•   resource management (budgeting and forecasting) frameworks

•   development of an internal control framework

•   control self-assessment strategies

•   support for corporate reorganizations and realignment strategies

We tailor the end-product to our clients' budgets and business requirements. Our deliverables vary from reports and research studies to acting as the catalyst for change, implementing the solution on behalf of the client.

The common feature of all of our comptrollership and governance projects is that we apply our experience and contacts with other clients to provide a tailored "best-practices" solution.  Contact us for more information.

In every engagement, we define our success based on the knowledge that we have transferred to our clients, whether through one-on-one coaching services, the preparation of good documentation or through formal training.  Our target audiences range from Senior Executives to Operational staff.

Our services include:

•  the development of project-specific training strategies and plans

•   the development of training documentation

•  systems training (end-user and systems support units)

•   financial comptrollership training

•   resource management and financial training for non-financial executives

All projects, by their nature and definition, are undertaken to change the organization. It just makes sense.  Why would you or your organization decide to invest resources in doing something if you are satisfied with the way things are? This means that all projects, all of the time, are about changing an organization — adapting to the external environment, regulatory requirements, central agency changes or technological changes. 

At times, project teams are so focused on managing the project constraints and stakeholder expectations that they lose sight of the organizational impacts that project have, or will have, on the current environment and culture.  When that happens, the organization often does not leverage all of the benefits promised by the project.

Audit and Assurance Services

Our audit and assurance services enable good governance in our client environments by providing independent and objective assessments of risk management strategies and practices; management control frameworks and practices; and information used for decision-making and reporting.

We maintain a partnership with Mitchell & Holmes, Chartered Professional Accountants to provide assurance services where the audit opinion of a Public Accountant is required.

Our services include:

•   contribution agreement recipient audits

•   audit-readiness services

•   program audit

•   risk-based audit planning

•   documentation of the audit universe

•   compliance audits

•   audits of corporate services (i.e. material management, IT, procurement, financial management).

DueNorth Consulting can either conduct the engagement or provide resources to complement the client team.