Right Lane Update: Building capability, embracing innovation, navigating change
By Zoe Pappas – June 2025
As we reach the halfway point of 2025 we’re seeing a clear imperative: organisations must build internal capability, embrace innovation, and stay ahead of significant policy shifts. This month, we’re spotlighting three ways we’re helping clients do just that – improving business economics to boost productivity, transforming organisations with AI, and unpacking the strategic implications of Australia’s federal election.
Achieving greater impact by doing more with less
In today’s challenging economic landscape, organisations are being challenged to deliver more value with tighter resources. This isn’t just about doing more with less, it’s about working smarter, building internal capability, and investing strategically to deliver sustainable impact.
We’re partnering with leadership teams to strengthen their understanding of business economics: what it really costs to deliver their services, where productivity gains can be unlocked, and how to make sharper resource allocation decisions. It’s not simply a cost-cutting exercise, it’s a shift in mindset, backed by data, that enables more informed choices about where to innovate and where to invest.
What we’re learning is that this is often a whole-of-organisation effort. It requires a shared language around value and impact, clear accountability, and the tools to link financial decisions to strategic outcomes and delivery of ‘mission critical’ work.
Our recent work has included economic performance analyses, tailored workshops to prioritise investment and change how resources are allocated, scenario modelling, and hands-on tools to help teams boost capability, embed financial thinking and commercial acumen into day-to-day operations. Whether you’re navigating funding uncertainty, preparing for growth, rethinking your operating model, or changing the mindsets and behaviours of your teams, we’re here to support you.
If you’d like to explore how to build commercial capability and boost productivity in your organisation, we’d love to start a conversation.
Next gen problem solving with AI
The integration of artificial intelligence into knowledge work like management consulting is no longer a futuristic idea, it’s a strategic imperative. At Right Lane Consulting, we’re actively exploring, experimenting with and embedding AI tools to reshape how we can solve problems, collaborate, boost productivity and deliver value for clients.
We’re using a range of tools including Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and ChatGPT-4-turbo but we’re also going beyond LLMs. Tools for workflow automation, accessing knowledge resources, secure document summarisation, and advanced data visualisation are changing how we manage projects, track insights, and serve clients more effectively.
That said, using AI responsibly is critical. As we embed these tools deeper into our practice, we’re also thinking carefully about confidentiality, data security, and ethical use – especially when working with sensitive client information. We’ve established guardrails, trained our team in prompt engineering, and are building internal protocols to ensure we’re augmenting, not risking, our service quality.
Importantly, we see AI as a collaborator, not a replacement to support idea generation, faster outputs, and fewer decision bottlenecks. But the human element—judgment, empathy, nuance—remains irreplaceable.
In the spirit of transparency, ChatGPT has helped me edit this email, but the ideas and reflections are my own.
Curious how AI might transform your work, including how to prioritise consistent adoption across your organisation? Or want to know more about our AI evolution, please get in touch.
What the election outcome means for key sectors
Following the recent federal election, we hosted a session to unpack the implications for three key sectors: clean energy, housing, and superannuation. The discussion featured insights from Kane Thornton (Clean Energy Council), Wendy Hayhurst (Chia National), and Carla De Campo (IFM Investors), each of whom brought a unique perspective on what the election results mean for their sector and for Australia more broadly.
Here are some of the key takeaways:
- Energy transition mandate: The election results provided a clear mandate for the government to continue with the energy transition. Our panellists emphasised the importance of continuity in energy policy and the need for deep political engagement to remove barriers and deliver on energy transition goals.
- Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF): Our panellists highlighted the existential importance of the HAFF for the community housing sector. They called for certainty and institutional investment to ensure the delivery of social and affordable housing projects, and advocated for an annual program to attract investors and maintain momentum.
- Superannuation and investment certainty: Our panellists discussed the importance of policy stability for long-term investment strategies. They noted that the election outcome avoided potentially disruptive changes and reinforced the collaborative mindset of industry super funds in addressing housing and energy challenges.
If you’d like to discuss what these developments mean for your organisation, we’d be happy to connect.
I’d love to hear your reflections or talk through any ideas sparked by this update. Get in touch today.
