Industries
AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES provides an informed perspective on issues faced by industry sectors. We showcase our in-depth knowledge and experience in these sectors.
Who We Work With
Real Estate & Construction
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REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION
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:
- Hybrid Workplaces: Flexible work arrangements are increasingly favored, with 83% of businesses adopting hybrid models.
- Flexibility is Key: 58% of organizations seek greater lease flexibility to reduce costs and align with workforce preferences.
- Technology Integration: Offices must provide advanced data and workplace analytics to enhance collaboration and efficiency.
- Collaboration Hubs: Physical offices are evolving into spaces for teamwork, innovation, and client engagement.
- Tenant-Landlord Collaboration: A more cooperative approach is required to create adaptable and sustainable work environments.
- 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.
Automotive
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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.
Education
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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.
Not-For-Profit
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AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES can help Australia’s not-for-profit organisations respond effectively to challenging and complex issues facing the sector.
More not-for-profit organisations of all kinds and sizes are adopting practices proven in the corporate sector to enhance their performance and accountability, and to help them respond to issues facing the sector.
These issues include the need to:
- sustain and improve financial performance
- streamline internal systems and processes
- respond to regulatory issues
- manage and optimise assets.
How we can help
Through our national Not-for-Profit group, AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES has helped some of Australia’s most successful not-for-profits respond effectively to changing conditions. Our services include:
- technology strategy
- managed services
- intelligent automation (AI, RPA, Analysts, ML)
- technology leadership (CIO & CTO as a services)
- implementation and solutions
- business analysis and operational review
- strategic planning
- leadership and management coaching
AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES keeps directors and CEOs of clients up-to-date on trends and developments in the not-for-profit sector from a ‘whole of business’ perspective. The briefings cover important issues such as changing demographics and social values, corporate governance concerns and alterations to government policy settings. We offer timely accounting and regulatory updates for CFOs and financial controllers.
We possess a deep technical understanding of the not-for-profit sector and respect its values.
Financial Services
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AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES helps clients navigate the evolving financial landscape, providing strategic advice and comprehensive solutions to banks, capital markets, and fintech companies. The financial industry faces constant pressure from disruptive technologies, regulatory changes, and shifting customer expectations. Our Banking & Capital Markets group, supported by a global network of professionals, offers deep expertise to help clients capitalize on opportunities and manage risks.
How We Can Help We provide a wide range of services, including:
- Corporate digital technology management
- Risk management and regulatory compliance
- IT assurance and advisory (core systems, payments, mobile)
- ESG advisory services
- Cost reduction and productivity improvements
- Customer and channel management, including digital strategy
- Treasury and capital markets transformation
- Corporate restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions
- Technology strategy and managed services
- Intelligent automation (AI, RPA, ML)
- Technology leadership (CIO & CTO as a service)
- Implementation and solutions
Fintech Services We support fintech at all stages, from start-up to maturity, helping them grow and achieve strategic goals. Our services include funding advice, compliance support, and digital transformation strategies. We also assist established financial institutions in leveraging fintech partnerships and acquisitions to drive innovation and competitiveness.
AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES combines local expertise with a global perspective to help financial institutions thrive in an increasingly complex and competitive market.
Government & Human Services
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GOVERNMENT AND HUMAN SERVICES
AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES partners with all levels of government and the public sector to address policy and service delivery challenges, helping them respond to growing demands with limited resources. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide tailored solutions across sectors such as ageing, education, health, human services, justice, transport, and infrastructure.
How We Can Help
We assist government clients with:
- Policy advisory and program design
- Digital transformation and technology strategy
- Financial management, budgeting, and compliance
- Risk management, fraud prevention, and governance
- Public-private partnerships and regulatory reform
- Business process improvement and change management
- Data analytics and intelligent automation (AI, RPA, ML)
Federal, State & Local Government Services
We support the Australian Government with policy reform, governance, and financial performance improvements. Our teams help State and Territory Governments navigate unique challenges, balancing responsiveness with efficiency. We also assist Local Governments in delivering citizen-centric services through smarter data use, digital adoption, and workforce development.
Human Services
We work with government, private sector, and not-for-profits to deliver efficient and effective social services in areas such as child and family services, employment, disability, and housing. Our approach focuses on enabling organisations to meet increasing consumer expectations through business transformation and integrated service delivery.
Future of Human and Social Services
To remain competitive, human and social services organisations must adopt digital solutions to improve service delivery, reduce costs, and provide better access to services. Embracing technology ensures they stay relevant in an evolving landscape and continue delivering value to the community.
AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES leverages its extensive national and global networks to provide strategic insights, ensuring our clients achieve sustainable transformation and operational excellence.
Infrastructure
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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.
Technology
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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.
Regional Markets
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AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES supports inbound and outbound transactions across Asia Pacific, EMEA, and the Americas, helping clients develop regional strategies to mitigate risk, enhance performance, and create value. Our senior partners leverage deep industry expertise and relationships with key stakeholders to assist Australian corporates, SMEs, and government bodies in overcoming market entry and trade growth challenges.
How We Can Help: We offer tailored solutions across market entry, supply chain, procurement, trade policy, operational risk management, and technology strategy. Our services include:
- Market entry strategy and expansion
- Digital technology structuring and automation (AI, RPA, ML)
- Government incentives and regulatory compliance
- Managed services and technology leadership (CIO & CTO as a service)
- Transaction structuring and financial due diligence
- Co-ordinated support in APJ, EMEA, and the Americas
Regional Expertise:
China: We support Chinese investments in Australia and Australian ventures in China, addressing regulatory complexities and cultural challenges. Our services span across:
- Investment opportunity identification
- Market entry planning and execution
- Financial and commercial due diligence
- Visa application and migration services
Japan: Our bilingual Japanese professionals assist clients with cross-border investments, operational strategies, and regulatory navigation. We provide:
- Strategic market entry and transaction support
- Operational and financial advisory
- Risk management and compliance
India: Helping Indian and Australian enterprises capitalize on growth opportunities while managing regulatory and business complexities. Our services include:
- Sourcing advisory and IT strategy
- Business transformation and operational efficiency
- Financial structuring and compliance
Korea: We assist Korean businesses investing in Australia and Australian companies entering Korea, offering:
- Investment planning and deal negotiation
- Market entry and risk mitigation
- Global mobility support
AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES provides a seamless, integrated service, leveraging our extensive global network to help businesses succeed in international markets.
Insurance
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AUP IT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES’s insurance group helps Australian insurers navigate market volatility, regulatory complexities, and evolving consumer expectations to find sustainable pathways to growth. Our multi-disciplinary teams, led by experienced senior partners, provide strategic insights to address challenges such as severe weather events, legacy systems, and compliance pressures while capitalizing on emerging opportunities.
How We Can Help
We support general insurance, health, life, reinsurance, and broking sectors by offering:
- Business advisory and actuarial services
- Risk management and compliance solutions
- ESG advisory and analytics
- Technology strategy and digital transformation
- Managed services and intelligent automation (AI, RPA, ML)
- Technology leadership (CIO & CTO as a service)
- Implementation and operational transformation
With a strong local presence and access to a global network, we assist clients in developing strategic, performance-driven business models and ensuring regulatory compliance, reporting, and governance excellence.
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