Optimice was founded in 2004 with the objective of improving, or optimising, collaboration and networking between professionals.
Our mission is to facilitate the development of valuable business relationships.
We have deep experience in improving business relationships at both individual, organisational and inter-organisational levels.
Italian-based OpenKnowledge's mission is to improve the competitiveness and capacity to innovate, managing learning and knowledge. They support organsations in the management of knowledge and in the development of its people, innovating the models in the organization as well as the various approaches for collaborating with Web 2.0.
Optimice is working with OpenKnowledge on a variety of engagements around Organisational Networks.
Knowledge Matters™ is a boutique Australian company specializing in business network analysis™ and knowledge management solutions.
Knowledge Matters™ has particular skills for the review and re-engineering of business organisational structures and staffing. They can determine strategies to manage major organisational and cultural change that will improve revenue, profitability, and cost effectiveness.
Optimice is collaborating with Knowledge Matters™ on Organisational Networks projects.
The Hargraves Institute was founded in July 2006 to provide a unique and exclusive community of major Australian enterprises to share knowledge, wisdom and experience in a non-competitive environment for the purpose of growth and development.
Optimice is working with Hargraves on a variety of activities supporting their membership base, e.g. building a Hargraves membership scorecard based on our Partnership Scorecard.
alliancesmarts is a consulting firm focusing on alliance and channel management in the IT industry. alliancesmarts enables IT companies to create balanced partnerships, serving all participants in the process – from hard- and softwareproducers and their fullfilment partners, to suppliers of IT services to end users. alliancesmarts and Optimice are working together on helping clients create real value from the way they work together.
Griffith Hack is one of Australia's leading patent and trade mark attorney and intellectual property law firms. Griffith Hack employ more than 200 staff nationally, including 33 highly qualified partners with expertise in a wide range of technologies from mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering to biotechnology, information technology, pharmaceuticals and other emerging technologies.
Griffith Hack has
partnered with Optimice to introduce
Network Patent Analytics into Australia and elsewhere. Network Patent Analytics uses patent citation data, and other data that
link patents together, to build networks of identified patents. Just like human
networks, the patents that sit in the centre of these networks are assumed
to be the most important, and are assigned a high patent ranking. Network
Patent Analytics can also easily separate patents in technology clusters to
help define distinctive technologies, and can provide a relative ranking of
different patent owners, inventors, technology classes, and so forth.
Network Patent Analytics can be used to help patent owners objectively
understand the value of their own patent and their competitors’ patents,
explore new technology areas and help identify unknown infringement risks. More...
Cai has deep experience in Business Relationships, Knowledge and Information Management, Collaboration and Organisational and Value Network Analysis. For the past 12 years has worked in both internal and client-facing roles. He has consulted extensively to organisations in both public and private sector, as well as presented conferences in Australia and abroad. Cai was previously a Principal Consultant with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), General Manager (ANZ) for Implementation Management Associates and is a founding partner in Optimice. He has extensive experience in senior consulting, change leadership, and implementation roles successfully delivering large-scale global business transformation projects.
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Laurie is a well-known Australian expert in Knowledge Management. He is also one of Australia's leading practitioners in Social Network Analysis for organisational change. With many years of experience in different roles ranging from research to consulting, Laurie recently completed his PhD research on corporate social capital effects on share market performance. He was previously a Principal Consultant with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). 
Marianne is leading all operational activities at Optimice. She has moved from administering large council budgets to operating Optimice. She brings a wealth of experience in delivering our clients a seemless and efficient service. Marianne holds a Master of Political Science from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Tania has career track record in the resources industry spanning more than 18 years working for BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto building system strategies and implementing to meet business objectives. She has expert knowledge of project management methodologies and is a qualified Six Sigma Green Belt. Tania has personally lead the selection process and established long term service contracts with a number of IT Service and Product Companies and has lead a number of major change projects from the business case and business analysis stages through to implementation and ongoing governance.
With her background in international business and communication, Doris anchors social network analysis in marketing, lobbying, and due diligence business applications. She has close to 10 years of cross-industry experience in Europe and the USA and brings a visionary understanding of social network analysis to solving problems of commercial, political and governmental interest. Doris was previously a Senior Consultant and Managing Partner of FAS.research, Vienna, San Francisco and NY. Doris is a native of Vienna, Austria and lives in Melbourne.