Facing the future boldly, we’re encouraging innovation and challenging the status quo. Helping people navigate discontinuous change under uncertainty. Delivering the impact essential for the betterment of our future. Aotearoa New Zealand’s future.
We are Polis.
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Bringing shared strength to your most complex challenges.
Polis Consulting Group is a top-tier boutique New Zealand strategy consulting firm deploying a team of seasoned advisors, trusted to navigate Aotearoa New Zealand’s toughest public and private sector challenges. We co-create powerful insights and decision points with clients and stakeholders to deliver lasting impact across five focussed practice areas.
PCG PRACTICE AREASA meeting point between global insight and local outlook.
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Economic, regional and industry development
We are leading practitioners of regional and cluster-based economic development in New Zealand.
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Innovation, digital and creative industries
We deliver innovation strategy and policy with global insights and networks, delivering local impacts and ripple effects throughout Aotearoa.
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Competitive strategy for leading firms
Deploying core practice DNA from our training at leading business schools and global consulting firms, we put top-tier corporate and commercial strategy support within reach of large and medium-sized Kiwi firms.
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Public strategy and policy design
We advise on public strategy and regulatory matters that drive economic growth, inclusion and wellbeing for Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Infrastructure Advisory
Infrastructure is a powerful instrument to support human and environmental flourishing as well as economic development productivity gains if strategy and delivery are strongly aligned.
Architects of change for good.
Built on strategic deep thinking
Our blade is sharp, precisely cutting a confident path, empowering progressive action by addressing the largest of confronting complexities.
We exist to challenge
We know that the status quo won’t do. Polis encouragers the visionaries, and the innovators engaged in challenging the future.
Navigating the waves of change
We co-create powerful insights and decision points with clients and stakeholders to deliver impact for the societal betterment for future of all.
The truth will set you free
Grounded on a factor of scientific method and philosophical platform, that the truth exists independently and it’s to be discovered.
The ‘thinking’ advisory firm, Polis exists to solve the most complex and possible the most troubling issues of our time. We are thinking collectively to solve the greatest challenge we as a species has ever faced. Bringing together world class strategy and public policy experts to focus on the most complex challenges of our time.
Clarity through ambiguity
Clearing a way through ambiguity. We value the art of communication and delivery through simplicity. Simple, being the other side of complex.
INSIGHT. STRATEGY. IMPACT.
‘in’ ‘courage’:
literally meaning to place courage in another.
Our work is hugely varied. Every case is different and every solution is highly tailored to our client’s needs. We do not do routine or cookie-cutter consulting. We staff senior experts, not junior teams, on our clients’ most pressing strategic challenges. Above all, we work with our clients – often in joint teams – to develop their capacity, strengthen accountability and provide capacity, skills and support along the way. A snapshot below on how we’ve helped ambitious clients achieve extraordinary outcomes.
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Regional city transformation
Polis is partnering with a fast-growing regional city to support community co-design for the city’s long-term future. Our work with them includes integrating transport and urban design, brokering new central-local government partnerships, supporting community consultation, and analysing the toughest challenges.
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Frontier firm innovation
We are providing international insight on mission-led innovation and capabilities that drive better innovation outputs and outcomes for the New Zealand economy. We are pioneering with frontier firms, helping transform founder/executive team dynamic capabilities. PCG is working with NZ’s leading innovation organisations to pilot new ways of enhancing the capabilities and innovation output of our most exciting frontier firms.
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Surge Regions
PCG is assisting a surge (low income per capita) region to benefit from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) and what comes after: designing industry clusters; writing / reviewing business cases; identifying social wellbeing levers, and working with Iwi and communities to realise those gains.
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Low Carbon futures
PCG team members are working with a high end consumer durables retailer to modernise its business model for a post fossil-fuel era. We are seeking to understand long term market changes, and to build response options and their implications for business strategy and systems. We are also helping build our client into a sector leader in the policy process to help orchestrate private sector activity and investment to green the fleet and build a low-carbon economy.
Join Polis.
We are passionate about harnessing the best senior talent who want flexible careers and ways to contribute and developing the next generation of policy and strategy leaders. Do you want to make a difference, and are bold enough to want to try – then we want to hear from you.
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”
Sun Tzu