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Brief Bio - Sonja Bernhardt

Sonja Bernhardt serial technology entrepreneur, arguably Australiashighest profile women in IT.

CEO and Director of award winning ThoughtWare, developers ofgovernance, risk management and compliance software i.on my

Featured in the Australian Government publication "WomenEntrepreneurs - 18 Inspiring Tales of Small Business Success" (2007)

Founder ofWIT - Women in Technology

Co-Founder of AWISE Australian Women in IT and Science Entity

Innovator behind the sometimes controversial - but always ground-breaking and effective - campaigns to raise awareness andencourage girls and women into technology careersScreen GoddessIT Calendar 2007, IT's Million $ Babes Awards and Doing IT Aroundthe World.

Sonja is passionate about her industry and since 1997 has consistentlyencouraged others to either take up a career in technology or adopt

technology in their daily use through a multitude of career, role model,mentoring and board readiness programs that Sonja has been primarilyresponsible for designing and managing In addition she is the innovator ofsome high profile, high impact non traditional girl and women in technology activities.

Sonja holds three management and information technology related degrees:

Bachelor of Arts majoring in abstract algebra and psychology (University of Qld Australia- 1987)

Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (Qld University of Technology, Australia - 1989)

MBA (Masters of Business Administration) (Queensland University of Technology, Australia - 1992)

In addition she is a Certified Developer of Enterprise (CDE) and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.The first and currently only Australian inducted into theWomen in Technology International Hall of Fame (Silicon

Valley 2005).

Multiple recognised in Whos Who Publications;

Australian Women 2006-2008

in Queensland2007-2008 (Queensland is the state Sonja resides)

in Tasmania 2008 (Tasmania is the state of Sonjas birth)

In addition to WiT and AWISE Sonja has held and continues to hold a string of impressive board and executiveappointments held locally, nationally and internationally. To mention a few:

International Taskforce for Women appointed regional coordinator for the Global Women and Technology

Asia Pacific regional centre. Judge on the internationally respected Anita Borg Institute Social Impact Award Committee(2009).

Member of Australian Federal ICT Summit Advisory Group - this group reported directly to the AustralianMinister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

Member of the Business Higher Education Round Table (B-HERT) - science & technology careers taskforce

Foundation member ofGIDGITS (Girls Into Doing Great Information Technology Society) SteeringCommittee

Appointed to the prestigious Government ICT Ministerial Advisory Group, this group reported directly tothe Queensland State Minister and provided IT policy advice.
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Steering Committee member - "Skilling Cape Communities" technology training & education for indigenouscommunities

Overall Chair of the Australian Judging Panels for the Asia Pacific ICT Awards

Judge in the prestigious National Secrets of Australian IT Innovation Competition

She is known for her obvious enthusiasm, visionary leadership, intelligent rational thinking and business acumen.

The Australian IT industry and her peers recognise her as an action oriented results achieving role model whoconsistently delivers benefits through her innovation, leadership, pioneering achievement and collaborativecontribution to the development of the technology industries.

A mother of three - a son (1984) and two daughters (1982, 2003) - and grandmother of two. Sonja bases her lifeand all activities on a reality and reason based philosophy.

Learn more about Sonja on Wikipedia.

Photo courtesy of The Courier Mail photographer Adam Head.

1999-2004 ThoughtWare Australia Pty Ltd

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Sonja Bernhardt

Sonja Bernhardt presenting at WITI

(Silicon Valley, 2005)

Born

Sonja Bernhardt

1959 (age 5152)

Launceston, Tasmania
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Employer ThoughtWare Australia

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Leadership in Australian and

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representation of women in

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Title CEO

Religion None - Philosophy Objectivist

Spouse Robin Craig

ChildrenNaomi (1982), Tom (1984) and Kira

(2003)

Website

ThoughtWare

Sonja BernhardtOAM is anAustralianinformation technology industry identity and role model,[1] founder and InauguralPresident ofWiT (Women in Technology) in 1997[2] and co founder and Inaugural President ofAWISE(Australian Women in ITand Science Entity) in 2005,[3]two not for profit industry groups that run community based projects and programs specifically toencourage women and girls into technology careers. In addition, Bernhardt is responsible for a number of high impact (andusually controversial) initiatives to raise the profile of women in technology and break perceptions of technology careers as"nerdy" or "male", such as the 2007 Screen Goddess IT Calendar,IT's Million $ Babes Awards andDoing IT Around the World.
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[edit] Career

Sonja Bernhardt (born 1959 inLaunceston, Tasmania[4] ) was employed as a consultant by Mincom Limited[5] prior to February1999 when she established her own software development firm ThoughtWare Australia. Bernhardt and ThoughtWare have wona string ofawards and recognition such as listings in multiple Australian Whos Who publications. [4][6][7] Bernhardt is notablythe first Australian inducted into the WITI (Women in Technology International) Hall of Fame (2005).[8][9]

Community projects

Bernhardt is active in the area of supportingwomen in IT especially addressing theunder-representation of women intechnology, and towards these goals both foundedWomen In Technology[2] in Queensland and co-founded AWISE,[3]a nationalAustralia umbrella group. Through AWISE[10]and WiT Bernhardt has been involved in many girl and women in technology

perception altering, awareness raising, mentoring and role model projects. For example, Go Girl - Go For ITand theBoardReadiness Program. Bernhardt herself has been featured as a female role model by both the Queensland Government[11] andAustralian Government.[12]

In addition Bernhardt is the innovator of voluntary community projects including the controversial2007 "Screen Goddess ITCalendar", which featured 20 female role models in poses inspired by famous movies, [13]ITs Million $ Babes Awardrecognising successful Australian female entrepreneurs,[14] andDoing IT Around the World, a diary and series of e-bookletsfeaturing the work and lives of 36 women in technology covering all continents around the world on August 11 (chosen as thedateHedy Lamarrwas awarded the spread spectrumpatent) 2008.[15]

Volunteer Positions

Bernhardt has held several positions in the women and technology and IT policy community [16], including:

2010 Technical committee invited member of the ACIITC (Aged Care IndustryInformation Technology Council)

2009 Foundation Member ofACIVA(Aged Care IT Vendors Association) 2008 Regional Coordinator for the Asia Pacific Centre for Women and

Technology (1 of 10 regional centres forming a global hub for Women andtechnology)

2007 Member ofAPEC Digital Forum committee (role is to seek solutions for

APEC economies re: Building a sustainable e-future 2007 Appointed to the UN supported International Taskforce for Women and

ICTs (vision is to promote communication and information exchange;increase sharing of research, knowledge, and resources; develop a series ofcollaborative activities; and promote recommendations for policy andprogramming globally)

2004-2005 Member of Federal ICT Summit Advisory Group[17] - this groupreported directly to the national Minister for Communications, Information

Technology and the Arts 2003-2005 Appointed to Australian Government's Business Higher Education

Round Table (B-HERT) - science & technology careers taskforce 1998-2004 Appointed[18] to the prestigious Queensland Government ICT

Ministerial Advisory Group Industry Development[19] this group reporteddirectly to the Minister and provided IT policy advice.

Awards

Bernhardt's volunteer work in IT especially increasing the career takeup and profile of women in technology has been recognisedby these awards:

WITI (Women in Technology International) Hall of Fame (2005)[8][9]

Optus ICT Achievement Award (2009)[20][21]
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Queensland Government "Our Women, Our State" Awards - Industry orBusiness Category (2009)[22]

Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to the IT industry (2011)[23][24]

Publications

Bernhardt's publications include:

IT Workers: Human Capital Issues in a Knowledge-Based Environment (2006:Information Age Publishing). Bernhardt co-authored a chapter of this booktitled "Employment Sharing for IT Micro and Small Business."

The Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology Bernhardt wrote achapter for this encyclopedia: Boards, IT Skills and Women - the AustralianContext.

Regular contributor toThe Education Technology Guide (published by theAustralian Media Group). Topics have covered gender and ICT, ICT on schoolboards and nanotechnology.

Regular speaker on ABC Local Radio (most regularly on 91.7 ABC Coast FM)

discussing a range of technology and women in technology issues. Technology Diva's Top Tech Tips for Your Business: an interview with the

Australian Businesswomen's Network (2009)

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Detailed Bio - Sonja Bernhardt

With over 19 years experience in the ICT industry and being the first

Australian inducted into the Hall of Fame for Women in TechnologyInternational (Silicon Valley December 2005), Sonja has three ICT andmanagement related degrees, including an MBA, is a Fellow of the AustralianInstitute of Management (AIM), a Certified Developer of Enterprise and wasa double award winner in the Achaeus Institute entrepreneurship program(2005).

She is a director of two companies:

Director and CEO of award winning ThoughtWare Australia Pty Ltd, a GoldCoast based technology company.

Director ofAbout Achievement, world leaders in Peer Mentoring and CoachingPrograms.

Sonja brings value to an organisation through her action orientation, intelligent rational thinking, business acumenand experience in the Information and CommunicationTechnology sector. In addition her:

widely acknowledged energy and enthusiasm levels,

highly developed interpersonal and communication skills,

experience on high level boards and committees, and

extensive project and team work,
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result in a person who has a proven ability and willingness to operate effectively at all levels, and manage multiplework loads to consistently deliver results.

Sonja's background and experience reveal strong skills in the areas of coaching/mentoring, project methodologies,project management and director roles, strategic planning advice and organisational skills.

Summary Skills and Experience

Key Skills:

Action oriented

Highly developed communications skills

Strong relationship builder

Strategic and analytical skills

Human Resource Management knowledge & experience

Management- General, Professional Services and Project

Continual innovation is ideas and processes

An acknowledged inspirational leadership style

Demonstrated examples/outcomes:

Results are consistently delivered, proven examples of multi tasking

Open clear communication, honest and direct

Business relationships established and maintained

Intelligent thoughtful advice that considers possible impacts and implications

Taking both the big picture and the detail levels into account

Able to vision and input to future directions and design appropriate strategies

People and change management issues considered in situations

Seamlessly able to work from shop floor to executive and Ministerial levels

Innovative problem solving techniques utilised Productivity tools both developed and continuously enhanced

Naturally lends itself towards adding value to an organisation by being a positive motivated people mover,someone who initiates action and encourages/charms people into feeling motivated about theirenvironment and work.

Key Experience Includes:

Survey/Reviews - design survey instruments, conduct and analyse survey results (5 years),

Design, development and implementation of project methodologies and tool kits (10 years),

Project director and project management roles for:

Software Implementation and Upgrade Projects (12 years)

Software Development Projects (6 years)

IT&T Infrastructure Projects (6 years).

Download Sonja's work CV here.
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Sonja's Style

DISC Evaluation:

Immediately noticeable traits are a high level of :

enthusiasm

energy

motivation

drive

Further investigation reveals continual innovation in ideas and processes, exceptional organisational and planningskills and an action orientated approach.

Leadership style and Management techniques:

Sonja has an acknowledged inspirational leadership style. This has been validated not only by feedback but also via

behavioural profile testing.

Her leadership style naturally lends itself towards adding value to an organisation by being a positive motivatedpeople mover, someone who initiates action and encourages/charms people into feeling motivated about theirenvironment and work.

The key overriding factor to Sonja's management style is an everlasting supply of enthusiasm and energy thatfosters motivation and drive in those around her.

Sonja's management style is open clear communication, honest, direct and action oriented, with a focus oncontinuous process improvement.

Professional Achievements

Sonja's professional achievements include the following awards, qualifications, appointments and publications:

Awards:

Awards & Public Recognition for Sonja and ThoughtWare

Announced as a winner/finalist in:

One of 18 Australian business women featured in the Australian Federal Government 2007 publication"Women Entrepreneurs" (download Women Entrepreneurs for free: 5.2 MB pdf file)

Listed inAustralian Who's Who of Women in Business (2006& 2007) and the Marquis Who's Who in Scienceand Engineering2006-2007 (note: these are credentials qualified listings, not paid listings)

ThoughtWare was listed in the Top 50 of the InauguralAnthill Cool Company Awards (2006).

First Australian inducted into the Hall of Fame for Women in Technology International (Silicon Valley,December 2005)

Winner Best Financial Plan - Achaeus Financing Innovative Growth (FIG) Program (2005)

Winner Best Business Plan presentation - Achaeus Financing Innovative Growth (FIG) Program (2005)

Finalist - Women in Business - Technology Category (2006)

Finalist - International Women's Day Leadership Awards (2004)
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Finalist - Inaugural Queensland Pearcey Awards (2003)

Finalist in the National Work and Family Awards - First Steps Categories (August 2001)

Finalist in the National Work and Family Awards - Small Business Categories (August 2001)

Finalist - Zonta - Woman of Achievement Award (August 2001)

Finalist - Queensland University of Technology (QUT) - Outstanding Alumni Award (July 2001)

Finalist - Telstra - Business Women's Awards (Queensland) (1998)

and noted as one of Australia's top 15 women in ICT (1998)

Formal Qualifications:

Sonja holds three management and information technology related degrees:

Bachelor of Arts majoring in abstract algebra and psychology (UQ, 1987)

Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management (QUT, 1989)

MBA (Masters of Business Administration) (QUT, 1992)

Sonja is also an immediate past member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Board, Advisory Council and Executive Appointments:

Sonja's string of impressive industry involvement and appointments include the following:

Member of Federal ICT Summit Advisory Group- this group reports directly the Senator Helan Coonan thenational Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts

Appointed to the prestigious Queensland Government ICT Ministerial Advisory Group IndustryDevelopment this group reports directly to the Honorable Chris Cummins

Member of the Diversity on Boards Round Table that provides advice to the Queensland premier onboard appointment policy

Treasurer of theAustralian Mentoring Institute

Past President ofeWomen Global

Founding Chairperson ofAWISE(Australian Women in IT and Science Entity) Founder ofWomen in Technology (WIT), a very active (and high achieving) network for women in the

technology industries

Chair of Senior Stateswomen (ex WIT presidents and vice presidents)

Foundation member of GIDGITS (Girls Into Doing Great Information Technology Society) SteeringCommittee

Prestigious Judging Appointments - Current

Judge on the internationally respected Anita Borg Institute Social Impact Award Committee(2009)

Judge in the Secrets of Australian IT Competition

Judging panel chair of the Australian Institute of Project Management - Project Managers Awards

(Queensland) Judge in the Western Australian Web Awards

Board & Committee Appointments - Immediate Past

2003-2005 - Business Higher Education Round Table(B-HERT) - science & technology careers taskforce

1998-2004 - Board member of the Prestigious Queensland Government Communication and InformationAdvisory Board (CIAB), that provides advice directly to the Minister. Sonja has chaired or deputy chaired
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associated CIAB working groups (eBusiness, industry development, investment attraction, knowledgeportal and electronic service delivery)

2004 - Leader of the GCRITF (Gold Coast Regional IT Forum) Industry Image Group

2003 - Member of theAsia Pacific ICT Awards Board (Australia)

2003 - Foundation member of GIDGITS (Girls Into Doing Great Information Technology Society) SteeringCommittee

2003 - Advisory Group member - Rural & Remote IT program (technology & training for Year 10's)

2003 - Steering Committee member - "Skilling Cape Communities" technology training & education forindigenous communities in far north Queensland

2002 - Member of the Australian E-mentoring Reference Group

2001 - Member of the Federal Government auDA(australian dot au domain) Competition Advisory Panel

2000 - Member of theGold Coast Regional IT Forum - eWomen Committee

2000 - Deputy Chair of the Asia Pacific IT&T Awards - Advisory Council (Qld)

2000 - IT&T Careers Stuff Steering Committee (developed career kit for Queensland students)

1997 - 1999 Inaugural President of Women in Information Technology

1998 - Member of the Queensland IT&T Combined Forum

Judging Appointments - Immediate Past

2003 - Overall Chair of the Australian Judging Panels for the Asia Pacific ICT Awards

2003 - Australian representative on the International ICT Awards Judging Panel

2002 - One of a select group of judges in the prestigious2002 World Congress "Secrets of IT Innovation"Awards

2002 - Judge in the WIT Business Innovation and WIT Managers Awards

2001 - Judge in the WIT Managers and WIT Executive Awards

2000 - Judge in the Westpac/WIT Business Innovation Awards

2000 - Judge in the WIT Undergraduate Scholarships

To discover three reasons why you want Sonja on your board, click here.

CIAB

The CIAB is the Queensland Government Communication and Information AdvisoryBoard. Sonja has had theseappointments related to the CIAB:

In November 1998 Sonja was appointed a Board member of the CIAB. This is a prestigious appointment tothe board that provides advice directly to the Minister for Communication and Information. The role ofthe board is to develop and implement a strategic plan for Queensland's IT&T industry. This appointmentwas renewed in November 1999 and again in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

Chair of the Queensland E-Business Working Group. This was a working group of the CIAB. The group'sVision was: "To facilitate industry and Government reaching an agreement and support for a commondirection for E-Commerce for the State of Queensland."

Deputy Chair of the Queensland Industry Development & Investment Attraction Working Group . Thiswas a working group of the CIAB whose objective was to make recommendations to the State Government

about enhancing industry development and attracting IT&T industries to Queensland. Co-Chair of the Queensland Industry Portal Working Group. This was a working group of the CIAB whose

objective was to make a recommendation to the State Government about the design of a web portalshowcasing Queensland's IT&T Industry.

Member of the Queensland Electronic Service Delivery Working Group. This is a working group of theCIAB whose objective is to make recommendations to the State Government about Electronic ServiceDelivery (ESD).
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Asia-Pacific ICT Awards

From 1998 to 2002 Sonja was a member of the Asia-Pacific ICT Board (Australia).

In 2000 Sonja served as Deputy Chair of the Asia-Pacific ICT Board (Queensland)

In 2001 and 2002 Sonja was appointed as an Australian representative on the International ICT AwardsPanel.

Women in Technology (WIT)

In May 1997 Sonja foundedWomen in Information Technology (WIT), a professional association that aims tosustain an active network of women in the Information Economy, facilitating ICT career development andpromoting enhanced industry management. In 2002 WIT became Women in Technology, extending its targetaudience to include women in the engineering and science sectors.

WIT has a Queensland member base of approximately 500 and a mailing list of over 1,200, and Sonja is leadingmeetings with like groups across Australia to form a national coalition of women in ICT groups.

As part of her active involvement in WIT, Sonja has designed, managed and implemented projects and activities

that address issues such as:

increasing board readiness among women

ICT careers awareness

mentoring

role modelling

Sonja served as the founding President from May 1997 to August 1999, and is now known as the Founder andInaugural President. In these roles Sonja is responsible for developing relationships with key government andindustry representatives, and for ambassadorial type activities.

Radio / Podcast

December 2006 podcast in Silicon Valley USA: Secrets of an Entrepreneur plus My life in IT.

Late 2005-Current - Resident "Geek Girl" on ABC Coast FM 91.7, 90.3 and 95.3 radio stations providing a weeklyspot highlighting technology issues. Ad hoc geek girl presentation on 613 ABD Brisbane.

2002 - Weekly radio spot, ABC 91.7 Coast FM, as technology & communications expert, on topics including:

ICT on the Gold Coast

the impact of science & technology

future technologies

augmented reality

nanotechnology

artificial intelligence

viruses, worms and trojan horses

spam, scams & urban legends

careers in ICT

mobile technologies, e.g. Bluetooth & WAP

ICT acronyms

movies and technology

history of the Internet
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Distributed computing

Microsoft history

Humorous technology quotes

women in technology

as well as providing timely, practical advice.

Sonja regularly provides general commentary and opinion articles in technology trade journals, and generalmedia publications (online and in print).

Professional Publications:

IT Workers: Human Capital Issues in a Knowledge-Based Environment(2006: Information Age Publishing). Sonjaco-authored a chapter of this book titled "Employment Sharing for IT Micro and Small Business."

The Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technologyis the only reference work thatprovides an all-encompassing perspective on the way gender and information technology impacteach other. Idea Group Publishing in early 2006. Sonja wrote a chapter for this encyclopedia:Boards, IT Skills and Women - the Australian Context.

Regular contributor to The education Technology Guide(published by the Australian MediaGroup). Topics have covered gender and ICT, ICT on school boards and nanotechnology.

HR Monthly magazine - March 2000: "The Failure of Integrated Systems" (arguing that specialistHR systems are probably now superior to those integrated with Payroll).

Author of an article on balancing IT and HRM input in HR systems selection and implementation projects in HRMonthlymagazine, March 1999.

Author of an article on workflow in HR Monthlymagazine, March 1998 (a magazine distributed to members of AHRI[the Australian Institute of Human Resource Management]).

Author of an article in theAsia Pacific Journal of Quality Management, Volume 4 Number 3, 1995: "Relationshipsbetween TQM, Marketing and Strategic Management".

Sonja has also written a number of eBooks.

See Public Activities for further details of Sonja's publications, conference and media presentations.

1999-2004 ThoughtWare Australia Pty Ltd

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Our Board

Sonja Bernhardt - CEO

BA (Maths/Psych), Grad Dip HRM, MBA, CDE, FAIM, FMWIT

Sonja Bernhardt is widely known and respected in the ICT industry and was the first Australian inducted into theWITI Hall of Fame in the USA. An expert in HR, project management and software implementations, she is thedriving force behind ThoughtWare's i.on my compliance, accreditation and human resources software. Sonja hasworked in senior positions in Mincom as well as consulting for numerous private and public organisations.cvs/sb.html

Learn more about Sonja here.

Or read Sonja's entry in theWITI Hall of Fameor onWikipedia.

Robin Craig - Director

BSc (Hons 1), PhD

Robin Craig is Research Director of Genesearch Pty Ltd, Australia's oldest continuously and privately heldbiotechnology company, started in 1980. Robin provides programming, financial and strategic services andadvice.

Chris Curtis - CTOB.App.Sc Computing

Outstanding Alumni Award (QUT, 1997)

Chris Curtis co-founded Lattice Software Pty Ltd in the 1980s, becoming Software Development Manager (HRSystems) forMincom when it acquired Lattice. Subsequently he has been Software Engineering Manager andlater General Manager of Hong Kong Jockey Club's Australian Research and Development Operations and ChiefTechnology Officer, Australian Managing Director and member of the international management board of globalsecurity vendor,Eracom Technologies.

Currently Mr Curtis is the Managing Director of Long Reach Technologies, which provides IT consulting andservices (under the brand My IT Manager) to a number of clients across various industry sectors including retail,accounting, law, recruitment, manufacturing, education and software development.

Ron Jackson - Advisor to the BoardMBA, BBUS, FCPA, ACIS

Ron Jackson has been a successful management consultant and senior executive in a wide range of industries. Hehas worked in human resources, marketing, business development, strategy and finance. Ron spent six yearswith Hay Management Consultants, ending as a Director, and has been an independent consultant for over adecade with major clients including Telstra, BHP Billiton, Bank SA, RACV and ABB. He has worked on mediumterm executive assignments on behalf of several prominent investment banks and acted for various companies asCEO, CFO and Corporate Services Director.
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Our Company

ThoughtWare Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 88 086 471 338) was established as a business in 1991 and incorporated in

1999. ThoughtWare specialises in human resources services, project management, software development andqualitative research and surveys.

Cornerstone solutions are a unique, innovative range of compliance and competency solutions targeting the childcare, school and aged care sectors.

ThoughtWare also provides software to government, educational institutions, corporates and SMEs, as well as thebiotechnology and scientific sectors.

For further information download our brochure(pdf, 272 kb).

ThoughtWare's products & services are Government Information Technology Conditions v5accredited (GITCNumber Q-2447).

Our Values:

Reality: What is, is, and there is nothing else. Quality decisions need true understanding of the facts, notwishful thinking.

Reason: Deriving rational principles from specific examples (induction) and applying good principles tospecific goals (deduction).

Honesty: Consistency with reality in word and deed.

Integrity: Consistency with principles based on reason and reality.

Justice: Treating people fairly; we do not discriminate based on nonessentials such as race or sex, but wedo discriminate based on character and performance.

Independence: Each of us is responsible for our own success or failure, by the use of our individual mind.

Productiveness: Commitment to getting the job done well, on time and within budget, via rationalprocesses.

Pride and Self-Esteem: We perform our work in a way such that we can be justly proud of what weachieve. We seek excellence in what we do because nothing less will do.

Trade: We promote value for value interactions both within the teams we manage and with customers, asonly when everyone is treated fairly and with respect can effective teamwork and outcomes result.

View our company banner here.

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not anact, but a habit." Aristotle
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Project Management

ThoughtWare staff and consultants bring years of experience and a rational, productive approach to projectmanagement of medium to large IT projects and implementations.

We offer not only project management services but also project management coaching.

Experience + Method123 + PMBOK + Prince2 =

ThoughtMethod

A project management methodology that is guaranteed

to bring you productive results.

At ThoughtWare we have taken our combined years of project management experience, mixed that with ProjectManagement Templates1 and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), anddeveloped our unique project management methodology - ThoughtMethod.

Download your freeProject Management Guide Book!

Need more?Investigate Templates for Project Managers and at a higher level,Project Management Methodologyworkflow

software.

Project Management Software

Through ThoughtMethodeach project phase and activity is supported by a comprehensive set of tools andtemplates which enable us to bring to you productive and rational project management services.

Initiation

Stage

Planning

Stage

Execution

Stage

Closure

Stage

For a sample of our templates and processes for each stage, click in the relevant box above.
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We are able to substantially reduce the time taken to undertake your project and ensure that it is completed in amanner that maximises circumstances for benefits realization. We also bring with us a set of managementprocesses to monitor and control the production of deliverables within your project efficiently and effectively.

Whether small, medium or large projects, ThoughtMethodprovides a proven approach to achieving success.Through applying our uniqueproject investigatorwe are able to adapt the tools and processes to specifically applyto your unique business and technical circumstances including blending with your own methodology.

The top 3 benefits to be gained by utilizing ThoughtWare consultants are:

1. Reduces timeand cost because the tools and processes that form part of ThoughtMethodhave alreadybeen created and a clear lifecycle for initiating planning, executing and closing projects has already beenidentified

2. Reduces the impact of risks, issues and changes because there is a clear process for identifying,quantifying, approving and resolving them

3. Enhances the likelihood of success through the use of a standard, best practice, tried and proven projectmanagement methodology

We take pride in what we do our values are consistently applied as we utilise our skills, tools and processes todeliver you measurable results.

From developing quantifiable realisable Business Cases to powerful Lessons Learned we are experienced across thespectrum we can cover:

Business Case

Feasibility Study

Terms of Reference

Tender Process

Contract Management

Governance Structure

Project Office Establishment

Readiness Testing

Manage Communications

Develop Plans

Build Deliverables

Acceptance Testing

Business Processes

Training

Issue Management

Risk Management

Scope/Change Control Management

Assess and Review

Lessons Learned

So if you are thinking about a project where you want guaranteed results ThoughtWare consultants usingThoughtMethodis for you!


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Coaching

What is coaching all about?

A coach acts as a sounding board, a mentor, a motivator, and a gentle taskmaster who keeps you on track.

Coaches do not act as expert consultants, but as guides and resource providers. We teach you to do it well, wedon't do it for you.

Coaching may be the alternative to classroom training for you if you want to:

Determine the success criteria to be achieved by the project's outcome

Develop a Work Breakdown Structure with associated specifications

Create a schedule with activities, durations, and interdependencies

Delineate, assign and accumulate resources and costs to the project

Identify, assess, and plan for the mitigation of the project's risks

Understand basic contracts and their ramifications

Identify the important project metrics to be captured, measured and analysed

If you are looking for a deeper evaluation of your values, goals and how to achieve them, as well as practicalprinciples of living and working, philosophical coaching is also available.

Why ThoughtWare?

There is no one better to provide coaching than those who have actually done the job and know first hand therealities of project management. We coach based on experience.

ThoughtWare project management coaches not only understand project management theories and techniques butwe are all practising project managers with a string of successful projects spanning industries and covering adiverse base.

How does coaching take place?

Each coaching relationship is individually based and designed to support the coachees objectives, aligning theoutcome with learning style, commitments to self and others.

How much will this cost and what benefit will I get?

$150 per hour (before GST in Australia). We also offer fixed prices for longer term assignments.

Coaching, implemented at an organisational level, can deliver dramatic results and drive significant financialimpact to the bottom line. Coaching is about action and results!

How can I get started?

Contact us at [email protected] and you may be our next satisfied client on the way to further

success
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Documents

Ceo Thought Ware Sonja