Zulu’s Gallery – NCS Holdings Limited
The work achieved for Papua New Guinea Landowner company NCS by Zulu Communications is a career highlight for Sue Liu.
When Sue met with former NCS Executive Director, Marcus Gosling in June 2008, she was not to know that together, they would embark on an intense journey to reposition and rebrand the company, achieving unprecendented recognition and success for consolidating and raising the profile of a proud and powerful brand.
During the innitial audit and evaluation conducted for NCS, one of the key strategic goals identified was to position NCS as a leader in the industry to enable the company to be a contender for multi million dollar contracts in catering and services management of LNG projects in PNG.
With its existing brand, NCS would be battling the perception and seed of doubt sown by international competitors that PNG owned companies were not capable or professional enough to bid for such significant work.
Sue discovered that infact, NCS were indeed already leading the industry in PNG with service provision to the key mining developers and government institutions. The organisation’s brand, and internal and external communications were in need of a major overhaul, as well as redefining the key messages and methods of communication.
Sue’s goal was to reflect back to the key stakeholders of the company, its people and communities, the nature and scope of their daily work and how truly succesful they ARE at “Meeting the Challenge – Every Day” – in servicing the needs of their customers. This created a great sense of ownership, pride and celebration in the company within its own ranks- and the development of an authentic recognition and respect for the achievements of one of PNG’s most successful landowner companies.
Following is a representation of Sue’s leadership and involvement in NCS’ development and achievements over 2 years.
June 2008 – Current
You will see evidence of most of this work when you visit the NCS website, read the news articles and download copies of Gadona.
Executive and strategic business and relationship development
- Strategic Business and Executive Management. Sue – became an integral component of the small Executive Committee which started with 5 and grew to a team of 10 core executives (still the lone female…). A large part of our focus was on strategic business development, operations, logistics, internal and external marketing and communications seeing that we were repositioning and relaunching the brand.
- Development of key business relationships with client representatives and key suppliers and media organisations
- Representing the interests of NCS in the development of Joint venture business – The Alliance Group, and development of the TAG brand and subsequent launch of new business.
- Working as part of the small Tender team for the renegotiation of key contracts with existing NCS clients.
- Working as part of the small Tender team with NCS/TAG for contracts with Exxon Mobil for the PNG LNG projects. ( TAG has been successful in securing the key contract , this is one of the proudest achievements for Sue working with NCS and its partners. visit www.alliancegrouppng.com )
- Conceptual and innitial development of strategic marketing for NCS Hotels projects
Internal Communications Programs
- Business, Marketing and Communications strategy and 18 -24 month plan
- Strategic redevelopment and reposition of the NCS corporate brand including brand structure with multiple related brands, logo and corporate identity creation, and brand launch. The innital launch internally had a 3 month lead time – and the public launch, 4 months.
- Complete redevelopment of the NCS’ core messages. This included positioning statements and rewriting and structuring of all copy and communications utilised internally and externally – and associated application to communications campaigns, marketing tools and resources.
- Conference development, management and production – ( Lihir 2008, Gold Coast 2009, Cairns 2010)
- Corporate and staff christmas gift strategy and production.
- Strategic restyling and production of NCS Uniform range – from concept, to production, supply logistics, distribution and implementation
- Signage and promotional banner design and production and installation across all sites – including a barge moored and waiting for transport.
- NCS Recognition and Reward Program -5,10 and 15 years service. Conceptualised, produced and implemented across 6 sites in PNG – launch 2009 – follow up campaign 2010
- NCS Recognition and Reward Program -Stars of the Month and Stars of the Quarter
Marketing and Communications Campaigns
- NCS website -Redesign, development and maintenance of NCS website and blog – www.ncs.com.pg
- Writing and Production of NCS Newsletter – Gadona (December 08/April 09/August 09/December 09/April 10/August 10/December 10) – you can download copies from www.ncs.com.pg
- Photography for NCS across all sites – and development of a photograph library.
- Healthy Life Program – conceptualisation, writing and production of culturally appropriate health information
- Writing, design and production of all publications including: Staff Induction Handbook, NCS Calendar ( 2009, 2010, 2011), onsite campguides
- Golden Kina Award – development of this award to recongise the great work of external supporters of NCS
- Advertising and media relations
NCS Testimonials
If you are seeking results with nothing less than a proactive professional, then look no further than Zulu Communications – you will not be disappointed.
NCS was seeking assistance to rebrand and reposition the company in order to win new business especially from the multi-national developers moving into PNG.
Step 1 was a research and evaluation stage which ensured that any action we took had clarity and alignment with the NCS Vision. In a short space of time, Sue set about completing an achievable, detailed action plan to meet our short and long term objectives focusing on communications, marketing and strategic management.
This resulted in the creation of a new logo and brand identity and complete re-launch of our brand within 4 months. This was also done in tandem with the complete redevelopment and technical upgrade of the NCS website to a professional standard.
Next on the list was our company newsletter which underwent a revitalization to reflect our new brand and more importantly, writing and delivering a consistent message to multiple NCS stakeholders.
That was all achieved within the first 4 months and over the following 18 months, Zulu continued to ensure we maintained clarity and direction on our goals whilst working closely with the Executive Director and team on strategic positioning for the new business we were seeking.
Concurrently, Zulu revised, redeveloped and created new marketing and advertising collateral and managed numerous campaigns including; new uniforms, merchandise, staff handbook, staff recognition and reward program, representation at industry events, business development and introduced a long overdue healthy lifestyle program for use by all our customers.
This would not have been achieved but for Sue’s tenacity, her attention to detail and responsiveness, all of which reflect her professional commitment and focus on her client’s needs. Coupled with an effervescent approach to her work, it enabled NCS to achieve the goals it had set itself – recognition as PNG’s premier service company and winning business in the largest resource project ever undertaken in Papua New Guinea.
If you are seeking results with nothing less than a proactive professional, then look no further than Zulu Communications – you will not be disappointed.
Marcus Gosling, Executive Director, NCS Holdings Limited
A pro-active supplier who follows up everything to its conclusion
‘Sue is an absolute professional in her field. Jobs are completed on time and to your specifications. No stones are left unturned to get the job done. Not only is she competent, professional but also a pleasure to work with. Being in supply chain, it makes my job so much easier when your supplier is so pro-active and follows up everything to its conclusion. I have no reservations in recommending her business to others.’
Corey Polume, Supply Chain Manager







