Strategic Advisory for the Decisions That Define Your Business
We help leadership teams make important decisions about strategy, systems, data, and AI, with no vendor bias, no unnecessary complexity, and a focus on outcomes you can measure. Decades of senior leadership and systems experience, built through complex business environments, applied to your business.
When the next decision matters
Core Software is the advisory partner you can contact when the decision is too important to get wrong, and too complex to make alone.
If any of these sound familiar, we should talk.
Strategic advisory, across the full arc of your business
From board-level strategy and business diagnostics through to systems design, AI advisory, and transaction support, we work with you across four integrated advisory disciplines.
Strategic Advisory: Strategy, Performance & Leadership Support
For leaders setting direction, navigating growth, or resetting after change. We help you clarify strategy, diagnose what's working and what isn't, build the performance disciplines that hold leadership accountable, and develop the business cases that secure board and investor confidence.
Strategic Business Planning
Frameworks, workshops, and facilitated planning processes that translate ambition into executable strategy.
Business Diagnostics
An independent, evidence-based review of where your business stands across commercial, operational, and organisational dimensions before you commit to change.
Business Coaching
One-on-one and leadership-team coaching focused on decision quality, executive effectiveness, and leading through complexity.
Performance & KPI Tracking
Designing the metrics, dashboards, and operating rhythm that turn strategy into accountability.
Business Case Development
Rigorous, board-ready business cases that align the financial, operational, and strategic lenses.
Systems Advisory & Design: The Right Systems for the Outcomes You Need
Most systems projects fail not because the software was wrong, but because the decision was. We bring independent judgement to the high-stakes systems decisions that shape your business for the next decade.
ERP Evaluation & Selection
Vendor-agnostic evaluation, requirements definition, and selection support, including RFP design, vendor shortlisting, and decision facilitation.
Digital Transformation Strategy
Roadmaps that sequence investment, capability, and change to deliver compounding business value, not just new software.
Systems Integration & Architecture
Designing the way your systems talk to each other so data, process, and decisions flow cleanly across the business.
Business Process Improvement
Rethinking the processes beneath your systems so the technology can finally deliver on its promise.
Data, Analytics & AI Advisory: From Data-Rich to Decision-Ready
Most organisations are drowning in data and starving for insight. We help you define the data foundations, analytics capability, and AI strategy that turn your information into competitive advantage, responsibly, and at a pace that matches your business.
Data & Analytics Strategy
Defining the data architecture, governance, and capability that lets your business make faster, smarter, better-supported decisions.
AI Strategy & Advisory
A plain-English, outcome-first approach to AI: where it genuinely helps, where it doesn't, how to deploy it responsibly, and how to build the data and governance foundations that make AI safe, useful, and defensible. We help boards and executives understand AI, identify the high-value use cases in their business, and develop a staged roadmap that avoids the hype and manages the risk.
Delivery & Transaction Advisory: From Strategy to Outcome
Advisory without delivery is just a deck. We bring the project discipline and transaction experience to make sure your decisions translate into measurable outcomes.
Project & Program Management
Independent program direction and assurance for high-value, high-risk initiatives, from ERP rollouts to post-merger integrations.
M&A Systems Due Diligence
Pre-deal systems, data, and digital due diligence that surfaces the risks and opportunities buy-side and sell-side need to see before signing.
Customer-Side Implementation Leadership: Keeping the Programme Moving Inside Your Business
Industry research consistently shows that ERP and operational systems programmes are more often constrained by the customer-side disciplines surrounding the implementation than by the technology alone — change management, user adoption, programme momentum, and operational alignment among them. We provide the senior customer-side capability that helps hold those disciplines together throughout the programme, working alongside your chosen implementation partner rather than in place of them.
Customer-Side Implementation Leadership
Acting as your senior internal implementation lead during ERP and operational systems programmes, representing the business in vendor workshops, driving decisions, maintaining schedule, and ensuring agreed outcomes are actually carried through.
Implementation Alignment & Continuity
Maintaining momentum across the programme by ensuring workshop actions are followed up, business decisions don't stall, and operational realities stay aligned with technical configuration as the implementation progresses.
Training, Adoption & Operational Capability
The training and post-go-live disciplines that turn a technically successful implementation into an operationally successful outcome, including super-user development, workflow design, and continued capability support beyond go-live.
Our approach
Every engagement is tailored, but the discipline behind it is consistent.
Diagnose
We start by understanding your business, your people, and the decision you're facing. No assumptions. No pre-packaged answers.
Design
We work with you to design the strategy, system, or capability that delivers the outcome you need, drawing on decades of senior leadership and systems experience and a deep network of global technology partners.
Deliver
We bring the project discipline to translate the design into reality, either leading delivery, guiding your team, or assuring your chosen partner.
Optimise
We stay close beyond go-live, tuning performance, capturing value, and coaching your leaders, because the outcome you set at the start is the outcome we hold ourselves to.
Why companies choose us for the decisions that matter
Independent, vendor-agnostic advice
We don't sell you licences. Our recommendations are grounded in your outcome, not a vendor's quota. If the right answer is "don't replace the ERP, fix the process", that's the answer you'll get.
Industry depth, not generalist thinking
Decades of senior leadership and systems experience across mining, oil & gas, manufacturing, and resources. We understand the operational, regulatory, and commercial context your business actually operates in.
Executive-level engagement
Your advisor is your advisor, not a junior consultant behind a senior's email signature. You get the experienced people, on the phone, making the call when it matters.
Outcomes we put our name to
We measure success the way you do: in margin, risk, compliance, decision speed, and delivery certainty. We write outcomes into every engagement.
Two ways to work with us
Project-Based Advisory
Defined scope. Fixed fee. Clear outcome. Ideal for a specific decision (ERP selection, AI roadmap, M&A due diligence, board-level business case) that needs independent, experienced advice inside a defined timeframe.
Ongoing Advisory Retainer
An experienced strategic partnership with regular leadership touchpoints, access to our senior team, and continuity across multiple decisions and initiatives. Ideal for leaders navigating sustained change or complex multi-year transformation.
Every engagement starts with a thirty-minute conversation, no cost, no commitment, no sales pitch.
Let's talk about the decision in front of you
The most expensive systems decisions aren't the ones you make. They're the ones you make without the right advice. A thirty-minute conversation with a Core Software advisor is the fastest way to pressure-test your thinking, surface the risks you haven't seen, and agree whether we're the right partner for what's next.
Book a Strategic DiscussionOr reach us directly: info@coresoftware.au | +61 448 520 239 | Perth, Western Australia