Client: the Australian Business Foundation The NSW Business Chamber has published online the final report of the project Productivity and Fair Work, an independent project led by the Australian Business Foundation Engaged by the Australian Business Foundation, ThinkEvans undertook research and investigation into how the Fair Work system impacts the productivity of businesses in Australia….
Tag: decision making
Is your organisation organised?
Before making organisational design decisions that will be productive and sustainable, enabling sound planning for the future, the organisation needs to be able to articulate its current state clearly. Already cringing? This is more than just consultant-speak or HR waffling: it is as simple as knowing where you are so you can work out…
Is it Fair Enough?
Client: The Australian Business Foundation Fair Enough? A study of Australia’s productivity performance and the Fair Work system ThinkEvans has been retained by the Australian Business Foundation to investigate and report on Australia’s productivity performance. The particular focus of this independent study is the extent to which characteristics of the Fair Work System may promote or…
The importance of breaking ranks in the board room
Carolyn Evans and Tanya van der Wall write about deserving trust – including the part where sometimes that trust requires dissent, and breaking ranks in the board room. Corporate governance has been a topic de jour routinely over the last decade or so. Some attempt to shroud it in professional mystery (perhaps to generate the…
A square is a rectangle but …
Those of us still scarred by primary school maths remember that a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square. And so it goes with decision making, writes Carolyn Evans and Tanya van der Wall, where not all roles in decision making processes are decision making roles. Reviewing past decisions is a crucial…
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….
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…