Category Archives: organisational design

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

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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

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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

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