Ioannoù | Coétus
While it is hubris to think that we can predict or control the world with any degree of certainty, increasing project complexity and rapid technological change has outpaced the ability to control risks, costs and program resulting in continued failures and sometimes on very large scale failures.
Ioannoù Coétus is a construction consultancy assisting clients, working on construction, engineering and infrastructure projects to respond to intensifying project pressures and challenges.
There are no small or big missions: our interventions are defined by mutual agreement with our clients, according to the challenges and their budgets. Adopting a pragmatic, commercial and cost-effective approach we bring a broad range of industry experience to protect your interests on your projects.
We become a true partner and add maximum value on your project in identifying, quantifying, and managing risks that can impact the project (i.e., scope, cost, program, interfaces, commercial, constraints and internal/external requirements and obligations).
Our clients include national and multinational businesses in construction, law firms, and an increasing number of specialised subcontractors.
ABOUT US
Today's organisations manage projects within increasingly complex environments and often buffeted by strong forces, including program delays and cost overruns through uncontrolled scope changes, unanticipated site conditions, delays in responding to RFI's and submittals, disruptions caused by a party in relation to access, and project performance failures. These and many more critical causes of cost overruns underpin construction disputes.
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Ioannoù Coétus is uniquely positioned to deliver breakthrough differentiated service across Australia, New Zealand and around the world.
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With a presence in the Australian marketplace since early 2017, Ioannoù Coétus brings together a high-level multidisciplinary with solid expertise at managing the many moving parts of capital projects, complex programmes and complex interfaces across Australia. We understand the complex challenges in delivering major infrastructure projects. We thrive on this complexity and the discipline, collegiality, and vision that is required to drive successful outcomes.
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Prior to establishing the Consultancy of Ioannoù Coétus, the founder of Ioannoù Coétus, James Ioannou spent almost 10 years gaining dispute resolution experience within high end boutique practices, and another 10 years experience with top tier construction, manufacturing and management consulting / advisory organisations across Australia. He began his career with Brovedani G C & Associates Consulting Engineers in Melbourne.
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Mr. Ioannous holds deep expertise with the demands of large-scale, complex, high-risk projects and multi-stakeholder environments having served several leading local and global companies responsible for the delivery of a number of major projects across a diverse range of industry sectors. This has included a large-scale façade multinational headquartered in Beijing, a leading geotechnical specialist contractor, a design consulting group, a reinforcing solutions supplier to major infrastructure and mega projects across Australia, and delivering a diverse range of building engineering projects for a subsidiary of the United States–based General Motors.
Holding several senior line management roles, he led a wide range of projects with an emphasis for the contract and legal management, assessment of risk and providing strategic oversight of project delivery. During this period of time some of the projects which James worked on included Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, Osborne South Development Project in Adelaide, Nishi in Canberra, the Western Australian Institute of Medical Research in Perth, Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP) in Victoria, 150 Collins Street in Melbourne, Mernda Rail Extension Project in Victoria, 720 Bourke Street in Melbourne, Australian Towers Two in Sydney and One Central Park in Sydney which is one of the most awarded buildings in Australia. These projects are only few of the projects which James worked on, including various other landmark projects of high difficulty and large scale.
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James lead's Ioannoù Coétus capital projects and infrastructure by leveraging his deep functional knowledge related to engineering and law.
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James holds a Bachelor of Laws, a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne, a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and is currently undertaking a Master of Science (Project Management). James commenced his tertiary education through a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil). He is a scholar as recently he was offered an Academic Excellence Doctorate Scholarship in his pursuit for his Doctorate degree (PhD) in Civil Engineering. He is uniquely positioned to speak with authority on all aspects of risk management.
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Some recent projects where Ioannoù Coétus has been engaged include the Melbourne Metro Tunnel and Stations PPP Project, West Gate Tunnel Project, The Towers and Ritz Carlton at Elizabeth Quay in Perth, Deakin University Law School Building in Melbourne, Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital Redevelopment Project, The Foundry in Liverpool NSW, as well as many other complex projects in health, education and mixed-use high rise. ​
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James is a well-informed speaker and writer and contributes expert perspectives to conferences such as the San Diego, Americas Conference on complex organisation design and technological change presenting ‘How can Technology Advance Relationships, Strategy and Performances?’ and for the Building and Construction Law Journal on 'Construction Industry Be Warned'. He is a recipient of an Award by a large scale multinational in 2014, which annually recognises an individual's outstanding contribution following his formidable efforts to Strategic Risk Management and Governance.
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James is often called to advise on Project Governance having particular expertise in project and organisational risk management, as Project Governance supports the realisation of projects risk and benefits, which enable the achievement of critical project objectives. James has been approached by the Department of Civil Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and by the University of Malaya, in Malaysia to contribute to research work been undertaken in the areas of project governance and strategy implementation through projects.
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James is a Melbourne University Alumni, a member of the Society of Construction Law Australia, the International Centre for Complex Project Management, the Project Management Institute, the Australian Institute of Building and contributes to various Groups such Construction Delay Analysts, Governance Risk and Compliance Management, Construction Claims Arbitration Forensic Analysis and Dispute Resolution and the European Academy of Management to name a few.
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OUR SERVICES
BUILDING A PROJECT GOVERNANCE MODEL
Increasing project complexity has outpaced the ability to control risk, costs and program resulting in continued failures and sometimes on very large scale failures. True and meaningful transformation is long overdue in many organisations delivering construction projects.
Organisations that execute projects successfully employ effective Project Governance practices to drive change and achieve business objectives. Our unparalleled diverse team has worked on some of our largest and most complex infrastructure projects working alongside the private sector to shape tailored project delivery model(s) with rigorous analysis and advice.
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With several years of professional experience, Ioannoù Coétus has strategically partnered with large, national companies and local companies in driving growth and project delivery performance improvements, particularly across the construction and infrastructure sector. We have tailored designed and implemented governance transformations and led large, multi-disciplinary teams.
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ICPG © is an adaptable framework used by construction and engineering groups in Australia. It optimises Project Governance models, aligning our clients goals unburdening any competing interest, to co-create value, drive unparalleled business strategy, manage risk through the collaborative strength of the relationship and embrace project transformation.
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ICPG © framework reduces costs by 10 through process streamlining, optimisation and improved contract and performance management. Reduces programme duration in line with defining holistic integrated control systems whilst strengthening contractual processes and requirements and risk management systems.
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ICPG © bringing the benefits of agile and lean to construction, engineering and infrastructure Project Governance world, as ICPG © provides the tools including structural elements to automate critical processes but also make it easier to deploy them across an organisation overcoming internal disruptions and mindsets, which are all essential to sustaining high performances and outcomes.
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ICPG © replaces the disjointed processes traditionally used by many construction players with a single end-to-end project governance model which tangibly evolves construction businesses and projects.
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We are passionate about driving end-to-end Project Governance transformations as we have led several multiyear projects with infrastructure and commercial clients that have resulted in significant bottom-line impact.
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Ioannoù Coétus Project Governance acumen, on-the-ground experience, and comprehensive knowledge of functional topics such as organisational effectiveness, lean execution, contract and programme management, and risk management uniquely positions us to support construction, engineering and infrastructure group.
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With this space rapidly changing we continue to innovate and become industry leaders in Project Governance mechanisms and insights. One of the main objective for Ioannoù Coétus is to continue to contribute to the sustained development of evolution of Project Governance in today's complex project environment.
STRATEGY AND OPERATION
With our deep mixture of experience, having worked across a wide range of strategic projects across Australia, we comprehensively support you to challenge all boundaries.
We develop class-leading project delivery strategies and controls using proven best-practice industry techniques and technology to optimize control and project risk management. Partnering with organisations, we define and develop governance and control authorities, processes, and policies, including operating, delivery, and reporting models helping clients solve the challenges and crises that arise in our industry through the insight and depth of our experience. Our extensive specialist skills and knowledge of common symptoms of control failures allow us to minimize risks and support optimized project delivery.
Organisational challenges may result from gaps in consistency and efficiency in business project governance and processes surrounding the management and delivery of capital projects.
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We have advised Boards and executive teams on project delivery performance and assessment of risk.
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Having worked across a wide range of projects, driving scale transformations, project and performance improvement programs, and sustainability stakeholder engagements, Ioannoù Coétus is especially well-versed in managing and driving large-scale transformations and implementation initiatives , as well as leveraging Agile and Scrum methodologies.
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New product development, post-deal integration, outsourcing and policy implementation, in addition to traditional, but vital, system development and implementation, are amongst the current key project initiatives engineering and construction companies must manage.
IMPROVING PROCESSES
Ioannoù Coétus develops sustainable operational enhancements to increase efficiency and improve business performance for the infrastructure and construction sectors. Leveraging broad industry experience to identify leading practices across the construction environment, we add value by optimising processes to deliver and implement actionable solutions.
Understanding a broad range of operational performance levers, such as process, technology, operations models we have provided advice to high profile public and private clients on various different type of projects across Australia through contract facilitation, program management and analysis having utilised formal methodologies such as Agile or Prince2 in complex environments, project and risk management and dispute avoidance.
We have the ability to design, build, and embed operational performance reporting relatively to the construction sector. We support our clients to strategically navigate program and operational transitions, by helping to shape their project, commercial and contractual strategies in response to key changes.
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We lead the delivery of project programs and providing independent advice in the scope of a project spread over a project timeline. We have the knowledge and experience to prepare a project schedule for your project and more importantly to monitor and control the schedule through the scope of your project.
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We provide specialist program input by assessing the impact of critical incidences in real time supported by leading the development of robust quantitative and qualitative analysis, presenting analysis and ideas in a compelling way. Working as part of a collaborative team across a range of sectors, our team has the experience and expertise at every stage of the project life-cycle across a diverse range of infrastructure and engineering works.
We are a strategic mindset group and thrive on finding innovative solutions to complex issues. We are passionate about being at the forefront of change, and our group is ready to help you Team develop innovative solutions to important project problems across various sectors.
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Our Consulting Team is a high performing team which is renowned for holding strong client relationships by providing innovative and valuable solutions.
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Compétences
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