Client: Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force Taking the next step in developing a comprehensive picture of the health and effectiveness of the military justice system, IGADF today released for use the online facility by which Defence personnel can provide their feedback on military justice processes. Open to all personnel who have experienced either…
Draft report: ‘Shaping the Direction’
Client: Institute of the Sisters of Mercy in Australia Based on the results of the survey administered to the full membership body of all Congregations that are members of the Institute, this draft report brought to the Reconfiguring Committee the detailed data that supported the report of the Task Group which had been charged to…
Briefing to Task Group: ‘Shaping the Direction’
Client: Institute of the Sisters of Mercy in Australia This briefing paper and presentation provided the first insights into the results of the related survey which closed for responses on 4 August 2009. The project team provided a tiered briefing, with all aspects of the data analysed and presented, but the primary focus being placed…
Survey closes: ‘Shaping the Model’
Client: Institute of the Sisters of Mercy in Australia The online facility for completing this survey closed today, with more than 450 of the Sisters having completed their survey online. Surveys completed in hard copy will be added to the data base before the total results set is analysed for presentation and further consideration.
Updating measurement of military justice
Client: Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force JADHE* 2.1 Updating the measurement of military justice outcomes JADHE* v2.1 is now an integrated and completely revised web site facility. In addition to the site, this project milestone includes a further report to update the documentation of performance and outcomes of the military justice system in…
Survey design: ‘Shaping the Model’
Client: Institute of the Sisters of Mercy in Australia The final design of the survey was released today in online and print formats. All Sisters in Congregations that are members of the Institute – nearly 1500 around Australia and Papua New Guinea – will have the opportunity to express their views on key issues before…
Josephites: 2020 & beyond
Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart This discussion paper was prepared to assist the national leadership group of the Sisters of St Joseph (the order founded by Mother Mary MacKillop and Father Julian Tenison Woods) in their consideration of governance models which are likely to be sustainable over the…
Will too much coffee be enough?
No time for tender egos, our intrepid Managing Director is putting her money where her mouth is on professional development and returning to uni – no small thing after a break of more than 20 years! The last time she darkened the door of a campus, Carolyn was graduating from her MBA in 1988, after…
Shine on!
It would be hard to find anyone who becomes more immersed in their work than our Ros! Seen here “in character” as a fairy, just think how she looks when being “Mrs Bunyip” for which she is famous with thousands of school children who have visited Canberra in recent years. So just when you thought…
Shiny!
It is no secret that we are very proud of our up and coming team members – not least Sharna, who has been with us since graduating from her double degree and completing her honours year. But wait – there’s more! We have just received confirmation that Sharna has been accepted to commence her PhD…
Measuring consensus – a note on determining agreement
Achieving consensus by exhaustion is not decision making, writes Carolyn Evans, in a think piece for our coaching and mentoring practice. No board should allow the indistinct notion of “consensus” to over ride their legal, fiduciary and other duties as directors – and other decision making groups have parallel responsibilities which ought to be treated with equal respect….
Inside the Innovation Matrix
Client: the Australian Business Foundation Subtitled ‘finding the hidden human dimensions’, this book is a compendium of expert papers from academics and business leaders that probe into the process of innovation to better understand the intricacies involved. Carolyn Evans, Managing Director of ThinkEvans, led this project on behalf of our client, the Australian Business Foundation….
Vail Alexander Solzhenitsyn, старший раскольник
Closer to the dawn of time, when I was at high school, the nerds of a generation got their illicit jollies by reading really daring, subversive things like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Subversive for both left and right – left because it discredited the communist motherland, right because well, it was…
Happy new financial year from the lapsed economist
It was the mad rush to the end of the financial year. We were in the midst of both closing the books for the year AND delivering a major piece in our project about measuring the outcomes in the military justice system in the Australian Defence Force. Our eyes were all spinning around the wrong…
Vive le revolution!
We are big fans of the ‘marketing chick’ (of unknown gender) who lurks on the team of our local pub. How so? Point 1: the pub will gear up and ‘celebrate’ at the drop of a hat, and show no signs at all of the sentiments found elsewhere (say, around a randomly selected stockmarket over…
JADHE* v2 Implementation
Client: Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force Measuring Military Justice – JADHE* v2 Implementation Report A further report in the ongoing work on the health and effectiveness of the military justice system This report accompanied a fully functional web site which houses the performance measurement and reporting system known as JADHE*, the prototype system…
Can’t buy me … wellbeing
Just like in the Beatles song (for those older than our youngest consultant/research assistant), money can’t buy love, happiness, wellbeing … or can it? We are interested in exploring the nexus between prosperity and wellbeing: There are a number of inputs to this discussion that have been published already by quite diverse authorities, and we…
Decision making for growth
Client: NSW Department of State & Regional Development Based on the success of the events programme in 2007, this was essentially an operations plan for 2008. The ask was to deliver a new series of events and to operate an online discussion forum for women engaged in manufacturing businesses. Based on this plan, a year…
Goodbye ‘Mary Wells’
Client: Contiki Holidays (Australia) Task – Strategy Update: Review of 2006 census and historical data and reconstruction of client typographies for target client group. Effectively since its inception, the Contiki brand has centred its marketing strategy around a conception of women 18-25 which was iconically based in the women typical of the times – known…
Good governance in the third millennium
Client: Institute of the Sisters of Mercy in Australia This discussion paper was prepared to assist the national leadership group of the Sisters of Mercy in their consideration of governance models which are likely to be sustainable over the coming decades, in the face of “climate change” in their demography. Based on a mathematical model…
JADHE* v2 Design
Client: Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force Measuring Military Justice JADHE* v2 Design Report This completes Phase 1 of the development of a fully-realised JADHE* system, growing out from the prototype system delivered originally in 2003. This design takes account of the recommendations of the Senate Inquiry in Military Justice which has been completed…
On globalising research
Client: Centre for Defence And Industry Systems Capability and the University City Project, Premier’s Department (South Australia) This discussion paper was intended to engender debate in the defence and related industries present in South Australia about the opportunities that may emerge over an extended time horizon.
On supply strategy
Client: Catholic Healthcare Ltd Based on a desk top study plus a variety of site visits, this review reflected on the current operations of the supply chain arrangements for Catholic Healthcare as a group, and looked particularly at issues of good governance in this particular environment.
Leadership Skills Survey Final Report
Client: Department of Environment & Heritage A response rate of over 70% to an online survey conducted in 2006 provided very sound statistical substantiation for the conclusions presented in this report. A very clear, albeit surprising, indication of leadership development priorities emerged based on the review of leadership issues on which staff expressed their perceptions….
Just Culture
Client: Railcorp (NSW) Sub-titled Measuring Outcomes of the Initiative to Promote Cultural Change in Railcorp this report considered the manner and means of collecting sound evidence of cultural change that may – or may not – have been achieved as a result of an organisation-wide cultural change programme.
Ready to Grow
Client: NSW Department of State & Regional Development This exploratory engagement was undertaken to engender involvement of women in manufacturing businesses of all sizes. Essentially a programme of 6 events through 2007, women were engaged from sole trader manufacturers right through to women in the operations of Australia’s largest manufacturing businesses.