Backed by decades of experience and exposure to numerous organisations and industries, we understand the key elements that make up a successful digital transformation. Our experience and specialised expertise across both business and technology disciplines enable 8Pillars to provide a balanced and detailed view on recommendations in achieving your business objectives and goals.

Focused on helping organisations improve their performance, our team of professionals can objectively analyse existing organisational problems and challenges, and provide pragmatic advice, recommendations and plans for improvement and growth.

We specialise in providing advice on how to best use technology solutions in achieving your business objectives, including improvements to supporting business, organisational and operational processes, digital cultural changes, innovation opportunities, strategic management and success measurement techniques.

Information Security and Cyber Security is a key business enabler in today’s digital economy.

Given the security volatility of emerging technologies through rapid evolution, and the holistic sharing of information across the globe and industries, the protection of your customers and organisations information is more crucial today than any other time in history.

Our trusted and experienced team will not only help ensure that the right and relevant security capabilities and controls are in place, but will also show you how certain security capabilities, solutions and services can help strengthen and grow your business in ways never imagined.

Covering all four (4) pillars: Identity Management; Threat Management; Data Security; and Security Operations; our team can take you through the relevance and importance of each pillar, including the key aspects and differences between Information Security and Cyber Security needs and services.

Our key strengths include:

• Best Practice Capability Models
• Business Architecture
• Technical Architecture
• Strategy & Roadmaps
• Regulatory Compliance
• Enterprise Security Frameworks and Methodologies
• Best Practice/Applicable Usage
• Security Posture and Competitive Analysis Assessment
• Multi-Channel Security Models and Capabilities
• Information Security Policy & Standards Assessments
• Innovation

In a competitive global economy, understanding your customer demographic is a key contributor to growing your business in today’s fast pace and demanding environment.

Data is crucial to the future success of your organisation and privacy is rapidly becoming a key concern for your customers and the community you operate in.

Today’s digital economy is changing at a rapid pace, as new ways to deliver information and engage with customers and stakeholders day to day provides endless opportunities. Unfortunately, many of these new solutions are testing the existing traditional boundaries on the use of data and how it is handled. Understanding in-country data regulations and privacy requirements is crucial to ensuring that you avoid any breaches that could jeopardise or slow down your businesses growth, and/or damage your relationship with customers and the community.

Interlinked with our Information Security expertise, as privacy is a key contributor to “Digital Trust”. 8Pillars consultancy also covers your needs for Privacy and Data. We will work with your organisation to understand your data needs and enable you to manage your data effectively and efficiently, whilst ensuring any privacy requirements are met and that your data is used to the best of its abilities.

Our key strengths include:

• Consultancy on Privacy Requirements and Obligations (e.g. APPs – Australian Privacy Principles)
• Reviewing Data Requirements
• Data Mapping Methods and Techniques
• Consultancy on In-Country Data Regulatory Requirements and Obligations
• Storage and Management of Data
• Protection of Data
• Consolidation and Re-Use of Data
• Big Data Services and Trends

We believe that Project Management is not an administrative task but requires passionate individuals to drive change through organisations.

Our Portfolio, Program and Project Managers are experienced delivering quality project solutions from inception through to implementation and are focused on developing strategic digital end-to-end solutions to drive business transformation.

Our key strengths include:

• Governance
• Project
• Program
• Portfolio
• Expert Opinions
• Reviews
• Maturity Capabilities

Successful digital transformations are underpinned by the right (“Fit For Purpose”) services and solutions to meet your business needs.

If new services and/or solutions need to be acquired, it is extremely important that the correct due diligence and supporting documentation is in place to avoid any situations that could come back and haunt you at a later stage.

Our team of professionals have extensive experience is dealing with vendors and ensuring that every detail is covered to ensure the product and/or service is right for your organisation. We understand the time and effort it takes to ensure you have the right solutions in place, not only to meet your business objectives, but also to ensure that they save you time and money in acquisition and any future maintenance.

We can assist at every stage of the process including; reviewing business needs/requirements; supplier evaluation and selection; negotiation and award of the contract; and induction; integration and measurement techniques.

Our key strengths include:

• Preparation and Execution of Tenders
• Request for Expression of Interest (REOI), Request for Proposal (RFP), Request for Quotation) RFQ
• Master Service Agreement (MSA) and Heads of Agreement
• Panel and Sourcing Arrangements
• Contract Negotiation
• Contract Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Vendor Management
• Procurement Compliance
• Regulatory Advice

Companies focused on digital transformation understand that such initiatives alter the very essence of a company, and to ensure its success, adoption of aligned disciplines and process are key.

Realignment of how employees operate, understand and see your business and their roles, how to promote and go to market, how to engage your customers, and how to use and adopt supporting technologies are key outcomes to measuring the success of change – this is where change management plays an integral role to ensure successful transformations and outcomes within your organisation.

Our key strengths include:

• Change Management Strategy
• Change Management Process, Principles and Techniques
• Readiness Assessments
• Communication Planning
• Stakeholder and Customer Engagement
• Coaching and Training Development
• Resistance Management
• Feedback and Corrective Strategy and Process
• Implementation and Review Strategy and Process
• Risk Management