Newton Consulting, Australia is part of Newton’s global group of companies.
Strategic delivery partners, invested in your success
Why Newton?
“Newton are like the SAS of consultancies. When a Newton business case lands on your desk you know that it’ll be delivered.” CEO, Government Delivery Agency
Newton Consulting, Australia is part of Newton’s global group of companies.
We are Strategic Delivery Partners, built for complexity and challenges of extraordinary scope and scale.
Newton Consulting, Australia is a strategic delivery partner of choice within the international defence industry. For over 20 years we have supported maritime, land, air, cyber and space programmes programs of national significance. We are are a committed Australian business operating as part of an international group of companies headquartered in the UK, where we have worked on every critical national maritime endeavour over the past two decades. We have the people, the capabilities, and the experience to tackle the Australian defence industry’s most complex challenges. Strategic delivery means shaping and translating recommendations into tangible outcomes. It bridges the gap between a strategy’s design and its implementation. Our ability to work on seemingly impossible challenges is what sets Newton apart. We are driven, comfortable when breaking new ground, and go as deep as it takes to unlock complexity. Each programme is bespoke, suitably blending Newton’s unique methodology, cutting-edge capabilities, and multidimensional approach. Our commercial fee model and our client partnership ethos have fuelled how we work with our clients. Our performance- based fee model demonstrates our confidence in our approach and commitment to outcomes, guaranteeing the impact of our work and its sustained effectiveness. To deliver meaningful impact that is guaranteed from the very outset of a programme requires a team with a rare blend of qualities, values and behaviours. These underpin our partnership approach which sees us work with — and more importantly, within — your teams at all levels as partners invested in your success.
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Delivering meaningful impact
Strategic value that makes a real and lasting difference in your world, achieved by cutting through the complexity and challenges in your way.
Meaningful impact amounts to more than financial results. It represents a broader definition of success, encompassing tangible and measurable outcomes while making a profound, lasting difference for organisations and the communities they serve, and changing people’s lives for the better. At Newton, we’re passionate about unlocking complexity and delivering the strategic value that will make a real difference to you now, and in the future.
Enhanced financial performance
$500+
million of benefits delivered across UK Front Line Command
Heightened Employee Engagement
Improved operational results
100s
26%
of engineering front line managers trained in critical management skills
reduction in days taken for heavy maintenance visits
Better end-user experience
Greater Resilience
$30bn
new transformation team members recruited and trained for a multinational defence ‘prime’ 100+
complex weapons stockpile modelled in Digital Twin, aligning enterprise around a single view of availability
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Defence sector capability Delivering meaningful impact requires drawing on a blend of capabilities in every programme to deliver a step change in performance for our clients that sustains and evolves.
Our propositions
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Programme mobilisation Many of the challenges Defence Programmes face are baked-in from the outset. By getting involved early on, we can transform the outcome. Our work in Programme Mobilisation can model and steer client decisions like strategic investment, ensuring the best return for the taxpayer and the optimal outcome for the nation. Programme recovery When the situation or threat changes, programmes need to respond and course-correct. Equally, if a major programme is in distress, Newton are often the only partner who can help. Our work has time and again helped to accelerate and recover programmes of national importance, delivering measurable schedule, quality and cost improvements. Productive enterprises Large institutions need to deliver more output and productive workforce within a constrained affordability envelope, Newton are the delivery partner of choice. We’re experts in complex organisational change which have been subject to repeated squeezes in the past. Our core methodology and relentless pursuit of opportunity lets us unlock complexity & address opportunity in a way that leaves our clients effective, resilient and better able to meet future challenges. Support availability Support is the lifeblood of security and prosperity. Without it, expensive assets and talented personnel are largely wasted. At short notice, it’s often the only major aspect that can be transformed. Newton are specialists in unlocking support across the Defence Enterprise, ensuring that the Authority, Delivery Agents and Industry can work together to meet Defence’s needs.
High performing Organisations
Workforce enablement
Manufacturing
Engineering
Supply Chain
Asset management
Digitally enabled performance
End-to-end visibility and optimisation
Operational strategy
AI informed decision support
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Our People
Newton Core
Delivering meaningful impact that is guaranteed from the outset of a programme requires a special set of qualities, values and behaviours.
The granularity of our approach fuels the development of programmes that deliver meaningful impact and value, and ensures that you have the right level of rigour and specificity to make your impact genuinely sustainable.
Our intensely collaborative approach means that we’ll do this side by side with your people, confronting hard truths together and galvanising change from within. Our Newton Core approach is fundamental to delivering what’s strategically important to you, making a meaningful difference today and helping you innovate for the future.
Newtons share a commitment to leaving a lasting and sustainable impact on your organisation. As a team, we continually seek, never guess, approaching each challenge with open minds and making decisions based on facts, not gut feel. And we love the journey as much as the destination, having fun and forging friendships along the way. We’re unsatisfied with the satisfactory — for us, near enough’s never good enough. We’ll always challenge ourselves to dig a little deeper and go a little further, blending an eagle eye with a hawk’s view, simultaneously keeping the bigger picture and its granular details in mind with equal weight and importance. Most important, we recognise that it takes a team to achieve meaningful impact — and that success only happens when we engage the hearts and minds of colleagues, partners, and clients. That’s why we’re dedicated to collaboration, co-design, and to taking people with us.
David Bishop Australia Lead Partner Partner in Newton’s Defence & Infrastructure team and leading Partner in Australia. David specialises in increasing performance and reducing cost in major defence and infrastructure projects. He has a background in project and structured finance.
Alex Pitman Australia Lead Director Alex is a member of the Infrastructure and Defence Board and a leading Director in Australia. He is also Cluster Lead for Supply Chain Proposition Development. Alex balances innovation with operational excellence to achieve sustainable improvement for programmes of national importance.
Kameswarie Nunna Director Deep specialist in digital innovation and implementation of AI solutions. By developing real value to the largest challenges in Defence - delivering meaningful and sustained impact. cutting-edge tools, Kameswarie brings
“Over the last two decades our core methodology has been at the heart of everything we do.”
Camilla Wigmore Partner Director in Newton’s Defence practice, specialising in organisational health and redesign. Former Managing Director on manufacturing business with responsibility for strategy, leadership and full P&L ownership.
Jacqui Sutton Defence Senior Advisor 30-year international career within engineering and manufacturing. Former Chief Customer Officer at Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace responsible for the global customer base, including airline operators, leasing companies and aircraft manufacturers. Now Senior Advisor to Newton.
Alice Lattey Business Manager Director in Newton’s Defence practise and a leading Director in Australia.
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Case study
Reducing Aircraft Maintenance Time Aircraft MRO
We partnered with a specialist airline operator in the process of carrying out critical fleet maintenance enabling them to increase availability, profitability and help secure the future of an existing contract.
Our Impact
Client challenge
26% Reduction in days taken to carry out heavy maintenance visits
Eight months
Completed diagnostic, identified opportunity to improve turnarounds by 38%, across maintenance, planning and supply chain
The client’s projected maintenance schedule was unachievable at current productivity levels, which would have led to lost availability and therefore flying revenue during a key contract negotiation period.
Delivered 4 workstreams to reduce maintenance time:
Optimised maintenance plan to ensure work orders are grouped efficiently, preventing lost days
Redesigned system of work to ensure sufficient enabled work, and tasking process to ensure engineers always able to be deployed productively
Complexities
Individuals working to the redesigned system of work 130+
$60m+
Acute global skills shortage in engineering workforce and unionised environment
Driving part availability through improved demand signal to supplier, stock and supplier management
Risk avoided due to productivity increase for heavy maintenance visits
Ensuring all managers have appropriate skills across technical, operations & people capabilities to manage and motivate their teams
Spares could only be sourced from one supplier due to contractual exclusivity clause
Handover of co-designed capability to client team to ensure sustainability of changes
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Case study
Enabling an integrated E2E supply chain Defence Prime
We worked to understand true demand across a range of part categories and developed appropriate procurement and supply chain approaches to best meet the needs of each.
Our Impact
16% Of demand re-routed to automated order channels guaranteeing meaningful impact and ROIa ROI
Client challenge
14 months
We worked across three key areas to transform the supply chain:
The client team manage the purchase of spare parts and repairs of high value items for in-service aircraft and needed support to improve performance.
We improved the teams’ forecasting and planning activity, using fleet maintenance data to provide a single view of aggregated demand. This enabled the teams to have better visibility of upcoming demand and prioritise activity accordingly. We segmented material with agreed appropriate procurement routes, and automated the procurement of commodity parts, with high value parts passing through a simplified process. We mapped the E2E process, agreed cross-functional owners and set up a clear governance structure with agreed terms of reference and success criteria to drive performance. This ensured supply chain and procurement teams are now aligned in incentives, KPIs and behaviours.
13%
Of 5-year benefit delivered $44m
Complexities
Reduction in order duplication
Our diagnostic unveiled several problems with the set-up of the existing supply chain:
Demand was unclear
Reduction in direct labour time on transactions 45%
Order levels were artificially high
One size-fits-all procurement – 43% of orders cost more to transact than they were worth materially
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Case study
Asset Management Simulation Weapons operating centre
We have partnered with the UK’s weapons operating centre to provide clarity on munitions availability and reducing risk through effective management of assets, maximising return on CapEx.
Our Impact
Client challenge
20% Increase in supplier performance due to improved asset monitoring.
12 months
Developed a discrete event simulation availability model covering 19 complex weapon systems, enabling evidence-based decisions for stockpiles Enabled secure hosting and access to digital twin model output - first ever custom web application deployed at Defence SECRET classification Designed an agreed enterprise way of working and approach through 100s of workshops across 6 types of organisations with different challenges
The client is responsible for multiple nationally critical multi-year refit and upgrade programmes to guarantee safety and performance of the UKs weapon system. After years of decline, an increased threat level has led to a need for an increased availability.
34%
Of programme savings across the complex weapons portfolio. $400m
Complexities
Increase in operational throughput.
Sustained period of experience loss coupled with challenging scope additions, leaving teams unable to deliver their output plan No visibility of baseline throughput making prioritising resources and efforts difficult Some refit programmes included over 300 individual processes for each of the 19 weapons. Too complicated for any individual to understand the full scope
Training developed and rolled out ‘at shoulder’ to ensure it was effective and drove the change in behaviours across 100+ FTE
Future phases of this programme explore additional uses of machine learning and is in MODs pipeline of special projects.
Spend avoided which would not have helped solve the challenge. $300m
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Case study
Driving value through the supply chain
We helped to secure the longevity of a naval maritime construction business by increasing cost certainty around its provision of vessels to the Navy, through supply chain efficiency and cultural improvement.
Our Impact
Client challenge
30% manufacturing throughput increase.
benefit delivered under MOD scrutiny at greater than 20:1 ROI. $2bn+
Operational planning and business process re-engineering – improved material availability, sequencing of work, and labour force utilisation. Digital innovation – alongside the client’s IT department we introduced digital innovations, including a live “work-to” list and a new dashboard to allow managers to track performance metrics and identify issues. Procurement process improvements – supported the renegotiation of more than 60 contracts with key suppliers. Using a “should cost” model, and by providing training to negotiators, our consultants have delivered huge savings. Supplier side services – reduced problems caused by sub-optimal quality or late delivery of components. We helped the client to introduce a more forensic approach to supplier risk, which allows managers to prioritise interventions, and keep the overall build on track. Organisational review – built and implemented a quarterly organisational health survey; redesigning 23 teams to strengthen accountability. Reworked teams communicate better and the organisational structure is optimised to get the best out of the improved operational model.
The client faced pressures to show tangible improvements in cost and schedule certainty across its overspent build programmes to both meet its commitments, but also to make the strongest possible case for continued work into the future. In response, the client set a massively ambitious 20% improvement goal across the enterprise under the umbrella of a large and complex portfolio of transformation.
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improvement in pace of design. 60%
new weekly 1:1s in engineering teams, improving workforce engagement and leadership visibility
Complexities
Overspend in build programmes was set against a backdrop of intense political scrutiny. With an organisation of over 10,000 employees and $3bn annual turnover, the enterprise improvement goal was one of the largest, and arguably the most important, national defence programmes A core challenge was delivering sustainable change in a complex, safety critical, and highly regulated organisation.
Training and development – improved management capabilities where gaps were identified.
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Invested in the impact
As the only consultancy of our kind and scale committed to putting 100% of our implementation fees at risk on every programme, we are invested with you with a clear goal to deliver sustainably positive, strategic impact which surpasses all expectations.
From the outset we work together to create clear, transparent targets
Delivery progress is tracked, measuring the impact through to evidenced performance improvement
All our clients are measurably better off from having partnered with us
A performance-based fee model that guarantees the sustained effectiveness of our work and the absolute commitment of our teams to unlocking your unique complexity and delivering meaningful, lasting impact.
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Built for Complexity
We are unusual in our love of complexity. We’re the ones to call when the task is daunting, and the pressure to deliver is intense. This has taken us to all environments in Defence and allowed us to deliver impact across a variety of client contexts. Complexity is also conducive of scrupulous supplier requirements. Our responsibility is great and our dedication to safety, ethics, and compliance is unwavering.
We deliver change in the right way, with the right controls, working in a shared team with our clients, and utilising our expertise. We are dynamic to the needs of each challenge and are a flexible to supplier requirements as dictated to us.
Our Policies and Accreditation Accredited to ISO9001 -
Our IT We have cloud infrastructure in Australia, with security controls to prevent sharing of confidential and sensitive information between Australia and UK. Our first preference is to work on client laptops ITAR export controls We are guided by the client on ITAR applicability within their scope We will be guided on the specific requirements of us We have ITAR experience through one previous programme. We understand the fundamental questions around ITAR. Will ITAR apply to the scope of work? What authorisation will the client use to share ITAR information with Newton? Will we need to sign an NDA? How will client ensure ITAR information in documents shared with Newton is clearly flagged and identified to us? What are the client’s ITAR processes and policies to ensure we can comply with them? Who do we speak to for more information?
Contracting with us We are adaptable to Boeing’s supplier application process. We do not have any prerequisites to contract with Boeing This includes contracting on client terms and conditions (subject to our review). We are an Australian entity, with an Australian Business Number and Australian Company Number We have resources in Australia We know the visa process to deploy further resources from our wider group We have Workers’ Compensation and Professional Indemnity insurance We can complete data security questionnaires and checks, if required We can verify our directors and ultimate beneficial owners’ information
International quality management standard Accredited to ISO14001 – International environmental management systems standard Accredited to ISO27001 – International information security standard
Our People Our Australian Security Clearance is underway Two thirds of group employees hold at least security level clearance in the UK We can request Waivers and Australian mutual recognition
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Newton Consulting International Pty Limited
Australian Company Number CAN 678 397 870 Australian Business Number ABN 68 678 397 870
Registered address Suite 6 Level 2, 9-31 Lexington Drive, Bella Vista, New South Wales 2153 newtonimpact.com.au
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