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Edge Thinking Roundtable, Melbourne May 25th, 2017 – Transformational Change
Edge Thinking Roundtables bring together a small cross section of executives from communications, people and culture, transformation and consulting, giving a multi-lens opportunity for confidential discussion , sharing of different perspectives, and stimulating new thinking. Join colleagues [...]
Edge Thinking Roundtable, Canberra – Complexity In Government: Emergent Approaches
Complexity describes the behaviour of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, meaning there is no reasonable higher instruction to define the various possible interactions. Former Deputy Secretary Department of Finance and [...]
Collaboration – The Future of ICT
Having worked in IT transformation programs in large businesses in Australia, the UK and the US, Melanie Kontze came to realise there was an opportunity to develop a different way to work with clients on transformational change. A [...]
Digital Service Transformation – What new competencies and behaviours do we need and how to implement them?
Digital transformation of Australian government services requires agencies to look at new operating models, and new organisation structures. Our previous two articles explored each of those topics in turn. This third article in our series focuses on the [...]
Digital Service Transformation – What Organisation Model?
As the digital transformation of Australian government services progresses, there is increased need to develop different organisation models to support the new operating models. This is the second in our series of three articles which explore some of [...]
Digital Transformation Organisation Impacts – Article 1
The digital transformation of Australian government services is progressing at pace with a plethora of digital services for citizens and businesses. The scope is enormous. But so are the challenges. A significant change is required, to how government [...]
Edge Thinking Roundtable: Disruptive Technology—Disrupting Organisations
Futurist and workforce strategist, Alex Hagan, led a lively Edge Thinking Roundtable discussion at the Commonwealth Club in September. Public sector leaders in People & Culture, Finance, Communications and IT joined the conversation exploring the challenges of digital [...]
The new bold world of HR
While most CEOs now agree the senior HR executive should be on equal footing with executives from other business areas, according to HRPA they also believe some fall short of really understanding the business challenges. A lot of [...]
Five Fab Fun Female Entrepreneurs
Five of us, good friends and Canberra business women, all running our individual consulting businesses, have teamed up to support those doing it tough. We are participating to not only raise funds, but also to increase our own [...]
So what does a great 21st century leader look like?
In my 23 years of studying the topic (and still learning something new every day) here are some of the insights I have gathered about what really differentiates great leaders and organisations from mediocre ones at this time [...]
Powerhouse Women Reveal New Approach To Business At Launch
Business leaders from across the city were given a unique preview of the rapid transformation services provided by Silverstone Edge, at their official today at Eureka 89. Guests learned how to create and implement new strategic directions, translate human capital and [...]
Learning from Failure: why large government policy initiatives have gone so badly wrong in the past and how the chances of success in the future can be improved
Read the full report: Learning from Failure