Category Archives: organisational culture
Using participatory design for redesigning organisations
I awoke to a beautiful morning in Melbourne today – perhaps Spring is finally on our doorstep and realised that in fact I was supposed to be in beautiful Spain today instead delivering a paper at the Information Seeking in … Continue reading
Choose your own adventure or sometimes adventure creeping up and choosing you
Over the past year I have been greatly inspired and in some cases quite envious of several people I have crossed paths or tweets with who have had the courage to quit their jobs to discover or rediscover that ‘thing’ … Continue reading
Designing workplaces conducive to work
In an episode of the US sitcom Better Off Ted a staff survey revealed low employee morale. To solve this, the director Veronica calls Linda, an employee, into her office and asks what would make the employees happy. Linda says … Continue reading
Filed under leadership, organisational culture, organisational design
What comes first – great leaders or great followers?
Jye Smith‘s post Great Leaders, Great Followers on his blog A Digital Perspective echoed many of the sentiments I feel about leadership and ‘followership’ – and what indeed does come first great leaders or great followers (or as Jye calls … Continue reading
Filed under leadership, organisational culture
The shift toward innovation, culture and design thinking
Reflecting on the business morning of Design Capital, part of the State of Design Festival, three weeks on three key themes continue to recur in my mind. • Innovation • Organisational culture • Design thinking Roy Green, University of Technology … Continue reading
Filed under design thinking, innovation, organisational culture
Do you trust me? Play in the workplace
This evening I attended KMLF in Melbourne and had the privilege of listening to Stuart French discuss corporate culture and choosing appropriate collaboration tools based on application rather than on the actual tool (amongst other things). On his blog, Stuart … Continue reading
Filed under organisational culture, organisational learning
Zaana Howard = PhD student, design thinking, service design, social learning, knowledge management, social innovation, sometime artist, (ex?) librarian = generalist
