Nakedize’s innovative educational resources have all evolved from a mixture of research, thinking, design, and decades of commercial experience.
Your organisation can call on all that thought leadership and experience through our three consultancy services, which are provided by Nakedize principal Simon Hertnon.
While fresh eyes and logical thinking are key to Simon’s value as a consultant, he also calls on insights from his work across multiple industries and disciplines, including healthcare, health and safety, primary industries, tourism, public service, education, maritime services, defence, telecommunications, and start-up incubation.
Our consultancy services
Service: Optimal Information
Plain language advice and support: Plain language is really just ‘good writing’ that is clear, concise, and well organised for a precisely-defined audience. If your organisation needs its staff to write well, Simon can design a simple transformation program to make good writing your new norm.
Identifying and culling safety clutter: ‘Safety clutter’ (excessive safety measures that waste resources and leave people less safe) takes many forms, and over-documentation is one of the most common and costly. When you add quality issues that lead to ambiguity or incomprehensibility, addressing safety clutter is essential to reduce both risks and cost.
Audit service: Because information can both help and hinder organisations, Simon provides independent criticism of your the quality, quantity, organisation, usefulness, and cost of your information.
Design service: As a writer and editor, Simon helps you and your team to design cost-effective documents that achieve their goals.
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Service: Optimal Change
Audit service: Because improvement and invention cannot occur without change, Simon provides independent criticism about the change culture, capability, and processes of your project or organisation.
Design service: As a change manager, Simon helps you and your team to identify the behaviour changes needed to bring about the cost-effective adoption of a new or improved product, service, process, or tool, and then to design activities and supporting information to systematically bring about that change.
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Service: Optimal Goals
Audit service: Because great actions are inspired by great goals, Simon provides independent criticism of your strategic goals, enabling you to confidently proceed, modify, or transform.
Design service: As a facilitator and co-designer, Simon helps you and your team to design goals that licence optimal performance.
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Fixing problems and skill gaps
Consultants are typically hired to troubleshoot – to fix a costly problem, or to temporarily plug a capability gap. Sometimes the work is ‘one-off’, but much more commonly the skills required for the work are needed in other areas, or at future times. So one shortcoming with consultants is that there is no residue of skills after the project or assignment is completed.
Education is the driving force behind Nakedize, so we will always offer to educate as part of our service delivery. Finding the simplest ways to explain the most useful knowledge is our speciality.
How do you book a consultancy service or get more information?
You can find more information about each service via the links above, or contact us to discuss or book a project.
Our standard consultancy day-rate is NZ$1500 plus GST. We negotiate project rates on a case-by-case basis.