Our focus
Rationale is an independent advisory company that helps government and business leaders make great investment and infrastructure decisions.
Our focus is, and has always been, on improving places for people through helping organisations make great investment decisions. It’s about creating a better world that results in improving the places we live, work and play.
Whether that place is a city, a town, a district or a region, we bring the tools, skills and confidence to navigate through the challenges that inevitably come with solving big problems or realising big aspirations.
While infrastructure has always been a key focus for us, we certainly take a broader view and we have a unique set of skills and partners to provide a holistic set of services. We have invested in new capabilities in areas like planning, communications and strategy to compliment our long held strength in investment decision making, financial analysis and asset management.
The world is becoming increasingly complicated and the expectations on investment in our towns, cities and regions are increasing all the time. We have a proven ability to help your organisation get ahead of the curve and manage the key transitions well, particularly in a skills and capacity-constrained environment.
We thrive as trusted project partners and mentors who can bolster an organisation’s existing capability, share our learnings and help you get the most out of a multi-disciplined team.
How We Work
We deliver value in all that we do by:
- Doing the hard work up front to ensure your project or programme are informed by the best possible strategy.
- Combining macro-perspective and micro-analysis to look at issues from all perspectives and to develop practical and sustainable solutions.
- Applying proven and robust decision making and planning tools, such as Investment Logic Mapping and Better Business Case frameworks.
- Taking the approach that nothing is too hard, and by combining our skills with those of our clients, a problem shared is a problem solved.
- Actively improving our skills and knowledge through constantly developing our people and researching industry changes
- Consciously evolving as a company to stay connected with the changing needs of our client projects and the places we work.
- Drawing on our experience with private sector asset owners and local and central government to genuinely understand the needs of different decision makers.
