Industries

AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES collaborates with leading global automotive companies to address financial pressures, industry shifts, and evolving consumer demands. Despite declining local sales, the automotive industry remains crucial to Australia’s economy, supported by the $6.2 billion “New Car Plan for a Greener Future,” promoting investment in green technologies. To stay competitive, businesses must adopt flexible models and innovative strategies.

How we can help

AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES provides strategic guidance across the diverse automotive market, assisting manufacturers, dealerships, and importers with key challenges, including:

• Regulatory compliance and sustainability
• R&D incentives and grants
• Mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring
• Market entry and expansion
• Technology strategy and managed services
• Intelligent automation (AI, RPA, ML)
• CIO & CTO as a service
• Dealer diagnostics and supply chain optimisation

Our Australian practice is part of AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES’s global automotive network, covering North America, Africa, Mexico, the EU, and major Asian markets.

Australia faces challenges to deliver infrastructure that will drive growth while keeping our communities healthy, resilient and safe. Planning and building new infrastructure, creating more liveable cities and improving assets has never been more important.

Globally, the infrastructure sector is grappling with consolidation, surplus capacity, access to capital, pressures on profitability, complex information technology requirements and ever-increasing government regulation. The demands of infrastructure projects have implications for all layers of government, as well as for financiers, investors and various public and private-sector enterprises.

Our capabilities cover all key sectors, including energy, water, defence, sports, telecommunications and transport. We have worked on major social infrastructure projects such as schools, hospitals and public housing. 

The twin pressures of globalisation and market convergence confront electronics, software and services’ businesses with significant opportunities and risks. Competition is squeezing margins, undermining the ownership of intellectual property and threatening revenue streams.

As new technologies are adopted around the world, it has become increasingly important for the leaders in this sector to understand the complexity and business transformation impact of rolling out these new products and services.

Technology executives must also confront a variety of industry trends that include:

• cloud services
• consumerisation of IT
• mobility
• shorter product life cycles
• digital convergence
• optimising global supply chains
• big data
• customer privacy and security
• IT transformation initiatives
• technology strategy
• managed services
• intelligent automation (AI, RPA, Analysts, ML)
• technology leadership (CIO & CTO as a services)
• implementation and solutions
• counterfeiting and grey market distribution
• IP protection.

How we can help

AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES’s technology professionals understand this changing and challenging environment. We combine industry knowledge with technical experience to provide insights that help technology leaders’ deal with their complex business model.

Our professionals go beyond challenges to anticipate the potential long and short-term consequences of shifting business, financial and technology strategies. We also help clients explore potential obstacles to change and collaborate on critical decisions that can deliver real value to their businesses.

The real estate and construction industries contribute significantly to Australia’s economy, representing about 18% of GDP. These sectors continue to attract domestic and international investment, facing increasing competition and complex regulatory challenges. AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES offers tailored business, technology, and advisory solutions across commercial, industrial, retail, tourism, infrastructure, aged care, and residential sectors.

How we can help: We provide strategic insights and support across:

• Real estate advisory and market research
• Project management and transaction structuring
• Technology strategy and managed services
• Intelligent automation (AI, RPA, ML)
• Sustainability and regulatory compliance
• Supply chain and demographic analysis

Future of Work and Real Estate Trends

The future workplace is evolving, with a shift toward hybrid models combining remote work and physical offices. Our research reveals six key trends shaping commercial real estate:

1. Hybrid Workplaces: Flexible work arrangements are increasingly favored, with 83% of businesses adopting hybrid models.
2. Flexibility is Key: 58% of organizations seek greater lease flexibility to reduce costs and align with workforce preferences.
3. Technology Integration: Offices must provide advanced data and workplace analytics to enhance collaboration and efficiency.
4. Collaboration Hubs: Physical offices are evolving into spaces for teamwork, innovation, and client engagement.
5. Tenant-Landlord Collaboration: A more cooperative approach is required to create adaptable and sustainable work environments.
6. Prime Assets Demand: High-quality office spaces with integrated tech solutions are becoming a priority.

AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES helps clients navigate these evolving trends and capitalize on opportunities to drive growth and efficiency across all stages of the property cycle.

AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES supports Australia’s education system to improve outcomes for us all.

The skills required to thrive in today’s world are changing fast and the institutions that teach, train and research are facing a period of dramatic disruption. From early learning through to higher education and lifelong learning many organisations are looking to harness the latest technology, unleash the potential of their people, adapt to new funding models and make their operations as efficient as possible to deliver exceptional student experiences and deliver world class research.

Common challenges within the education sector include:

• ensuring the right technology solutions are supporting the institution across back, middle and front office
• better managing research activities by assisting with processes in the reporting of research data and funding, publications and grants and navigating digital technology incentive schemes
• enhancing financial performance and diversifying revenue streams in response to reduced government funding
• dealing with an ageing academic workforce and global competition for relevant skills
• linking higher education and the development of vocational skills to deliver improved social and economic outcomes
• managing supply and demand forces in domestic and international student markets
• responding to competition in the development of education resources and the enhancement of academic standards.

How we can help

AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES has worked across the education sector on a range of complex issues. We have a dedicated team of professionals serving clients in higher education, vocational education and training, early childhood and schools, as well as the strategic planners, funders and influencers of educational services. As AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Australia’s National Sector Leader, Professor Stephen Parker AO leads our work across all parts of the sector to provide solutions for education clients.

A range of our consulting services include:

• specialist advisory in areas including internal business, risk, finance, digital technologyand legal
• technology enablement
• strategic planning, including infrastructure and major projects
• research management
• business and operatinganalysis and reviews
• workplace relations, HR and workforce planning advisory.