November 29, 2022
BEST PROJECT IN THE WORLD
A group of Rural Municipalities in southern Saskatchewan, the South Saskatchewan Ready partnership, was foreseeing that a future economic calamity will unfold in 2030, the closure of the SaskPower coal fired power generating station and the Westmoreland coal mine.
Project Overview
A group of Rural Municipalities in southern Saskatchewan, the South Saskatchewan Ready partnership, was foreseeing that a future economic calamity will unfold in 2030, the closure of the SaskPower coal fired power generating station and the Westmoreland coal mine. As the program lead Lorne Boyle of Mandate Consulting guided the team to provide a four-sector feasibility recommendation to stave off the economic calamity of a $350M GDP reduction caused by the federal government mandated shutdown of the local coal fired generation station in Coronach. A food safety ecosystem is the economic anchor of the new green-energy economy which will propel the region to recover $250M in GDP over a 30 year span. The project was selected as Canadian Champion and won the prestigious 2022 Constantinus Gold Medal for the best management consulting project in the world.
Project Team
Under the banner of Amistra Consulting, five consulting companies formed an expert team to provide a project solution for South Saskatchewan Ready. The consulting project evaluated a multitude of opportunities to recommend a slate of 43 projects for implementation over a 30 year period, the result of which can be a regeneration of $250 million to $300 million of economic activity.
What’s happened since the study was published?
The regional partnership has created a significant momentum by launching projects from the recommendations, it has already launched twelve development projects and South Saskatchewan Ready has been recognized for its foresight by winning a Saskatchewan Regional Cooperation Award.
The Constantinus Award
The majority of the project team are Certified Management Consultants or CMCs. A CMC is a senior consultant who has significant consulting experience and has passed regulatory examinations and interviews to be able to practice at a demonstrated higher level of Management Consulting.
CMCs are a regulated profession in Saskatchewan, governed by legislation administered by the CMC Saskatchewan Council certifying institute. This provincial body is part of a national coalition, CMC Canada, of which there are seven certifying institutes representing the entire country. CMC Canada is a partner with a total of 47 countries in the international governing body, CMC Global.
CMC Global, since 2011, holds a competition annually to bestow the Constantinus Gold Medal for the Best Management Consulting Project in the world.
Our team competed in Canada and has been named National Champion of Canada for 2022
A total of 30 projects submitted to the Constantinus Award, globally.
The South Saskatchewan Ready project was short listed as one of 12 and then received the
Gold Medal as best project of the year in Management Consulting
Projects from Italy and China received the two Silver Medals.
The award presentation was October 12, 2022.
