Strategic Consulting
A group of thinkers, innovators, problem solvers and visionaries, providing custom strategic solutions that leverage deep domain of knowledge in strategy, business organization and assets.
In today’s market, our clients are challenged with translating data to performance improvement, finding alternate funding mechanisms to deliver better liveability and creating opportunities for the current and future workforce.
We advise on diverse, dynamic and contestable challenges. We initiate and create solutions to realize opportunities from market disruption.
Our solutions transcend the traditional silos of strategy, planning, design, construction, operations and maintenance, to provide a full life-cycle offering. We address global challenges from urbanization, climate change and digital proliferation to security, water scarcity, investment partnerships and the future of work — both today and into tomorrow.
We work to bind clients’ strategies, organization and assets together to reduce risk, improve institutional outcomes and provide a return on investment.
How We Can Help
Asset Management Advisory
Owners of all types of assets are continually under pressure to operate efficiently and cost effectively. We use strategic asset management to support the mission of an organization on matters ranging from asset management planning and program improvement, to technology solutions and condition assessments, to technical communications.
We help by enabling owners to make cost, risk, and performance decisions to optimize and sustain the performance and value of physical assets throughout their lifecycle.
Jacobs ION
The ION Location Application enables plant managers and personnel to easily locate critical plant assets and view asset status at any time and is designed and implemented to integrate any type of asset tracking system, including passive or active RFID, UWB, Wi-Fi, GPS and satellite, into a single, comprehensive network.
Podcast: Managing Built Assets from Concept to Long-term Operations
How can businesses and municipalities use asset management as a strategic part of their operations to control costs, increase efficiencies and mitigate risks?
To find out, we asked Nina Wollman, Jacobs Vice President and Global Director for Strategic Consulting and Steve Meininger, Vice President – Global Operations Management and Facilities Services to elaborate.
Managing Reliable Assets on Earth and in Space: International Maintenance Conference Reveal
Business Management Advisory
We help clients make critical decisions about their future while optimizing available resources. We engage clients on a continuous basis which leads to a better understanding of the problem at hand and drives solutions to meet those requirements.
We help client assess their performance and plan their future, then align their capabilities, processes and stakeholder relationships to attain their business goals.
We support our clients at all stages of the project lifecycle. We have developed tools and procedures to inform capital planning processes and undertake project prioritization across the portfolio. These same skills have also been applied to undertake program level prioritization assessments.
Podcast: Pandemic in the Pacific
Mark Newsome, director for HealthSolve Limited in New Zealand, and Matthew Holmes, Jacobs global director for Healthcare, share insights on trends in health service delivery.
Reinventing the Business of Airports
With a legacy of delivering aviation projects, we know that advisory and business and financial related services play a key role in helping airports maintain business continuity and be ready to go “wheel’s up” when passenger volumes begin to return to pre-pandemic levels.
Podcast: Mobility & Future Cities: The Direction Ahead
The 2019 World Cities Day theme was Changing the world: innovations and better life for future generations. In this episode of If/When we discuss the future of cities with Professor Michael Keith, co-Director of the Oxford University Programme for the Future of Cities and Brian Burkhard, the Global Technology Leader - Advanced Mobility Systems at Jacobs.
Economic Advisory
Our Economics Advisory group assists clients to navigate the relevant investment management framework. Our strategic advice assists with project assurance and the scoping and development of rigorous business cases. We’re uniquely positioned to develop robust and compelling business cases through our ability to construct a convincing narrative that provides the justification for an investment, grounded by leading technical expertise.
Our assessment of ideas and projects stretch beyond traditional economic methods. Through our partnership with global leading social value measurement firm Simetrica we help our clients “be better at doing good” by quantifying their social impact using robust leading practice statistical, econometric and economic methods. Simetrica is a research consultancy specializing in wellbeing analysis, policy evaluation, ethics, non-market valuation and behavioral science.
We're able to engage with the right stakeholders at the right time; facilitating collaborative design workshops that foster innovative responses to complex problems for governments and city shaping projects.
In response to a rapidly growing and mobile population, networks are continually challenged to provide efficient, affordable, and sustainable solutions for the movement of people, goods, and services.
We help organizations define efficient program options, fund their selected programs and identify affordable, sustainable rate and fee programs that customers support. Working closely with our clients, our team provides innovative solutions that yield economic, operational, and environmental benefits when implemented.
A Blueprint for Creating Social Value Across the Project Lifecycle
Jacobs and Simetrica-Jacobs release a thought leadership paper which asks the question: What if infrastructure could be planned, delivered/built and operated to generate enduring social value and positive community outcomes?
New Report from Simetrica-Jacobs and the London School of Economics and Political Science on UK Wellbeing During COVID-19
Simetrica-Jacobs and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) published a report looking at the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of people in the U.K.
Fast Rail: A Catalyst for Growth in the Regions
Jacobs' newly-released paper explores how fast rail connections can benefit regional economies and populations, beyond providing improved connections to jobs, opportunities, activities and services in nearby capital cities.
How This Top Travel Destination Became More Resilient
The gorgeous islands of Belize are a quickly becoming a world-famous tourist destination. But their coastal location leaves them at risk from devastating storm and sea level rise damage. What if we showed you how Jacobs, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Government of Belize used satellite and drone imagery and data-driven coastal planning to protect and improve the tourism economy for the future?
Capital, Financial and Transaction Advisory
In response to the growing financial challenge of replacing and improving major infrastructure, our team plays a key role in working with governments and the private sector to develop alternative financing strategies, including P3 delivery.
We help by developing robust business cases and assessing adequate risk transfer strategies we help our clients secure the necessary private funding needed to deliver innovative multi-billion dollar civil and social infrastructure projects.
Referral Brings Connectivity, Collaboration, First Toll Road Investment by Ullico Infrastructure Fund
Through a referral from the Royal Bank of Canada, our capital and transactions advisory, technical and traffic engineering team advised our client Ullico to complete its first toll road investment.
Visioning, Strategic Planning and Development
Cities, governments, companies, and organizations across the globe are continually faced with planning for future change. We specialize in the upfront thinking that provides strategic solutions for future outcomes that help our clients achieve their organizational goals and objectives.
We help by applying a systems-based approach that integrates complex natural and man-made systems to achieve social, environmental and economic sustainability. We provide a framework that examines overlapping, interdependent systems influencing the triple bottom line of a project, organization or community.
Podcast: Improving the Connectivity of the Smart City
We spoke with Monte Wilson, Global Market Director, Built Environment & Global Vice President, Jacobs, about the importance of good design and how it takes into account citizens, business, transportation, and a host of other considerations in this episode of Inflection Points.
Energy, Resiliency and Sustainability Advisory
Energy markets are currently undergoing a major transition. A continuous growth of renewable energy generation as a result of falling technology costs and greenhouse emission reduction policies, along with the expected ongoing retirements of the old coal fleet and elevated gas prices have driven the energy sector to a critical point. We advise clients and sectors regarding how to manage the transition to ensure a secure, reliable, affordable and low emission energy future.
Resource efficiency and building system reliability have become an imperative amid rising demands and resource scarcity. Whether you have new or aging infrastructure, one building or a campus, our team provides the technical solutions to improve performance, sustainability, and achieve measurable return on investment.
We integrate sustainability from strategy and vision, to planning, design, implementation, and operations, and to sustaining the project or program over time; delivering whole of life benefits. Our work across the value chain in the raw materials, manufacturing, and services sectors gives us valuable expertise and a unique system view to help clients meet their goals by uncovering opportunities for smarter operations.
Toward a Zero Carbon Future
Jacobs and Yarra Valley Water break down commercial barriers to sustainable hydrogen through latest insights.
Leveraging Cross-Sector Knowledge to Inform Australia’s Pursuit of a Large-Scale Hydrogen Economy
Can hydrogen live up to its potential for economic growth without compromising Australia’s broader sustainability goals including emissions reduction and water security?