Conferences

… resilience and innovation

Friday was the final day of the Organisational Resilience program at the Australian Emergency Management Institute. Just like Days 1 and 2 it did not disappoint. Day 3 started with a presentation by Dr Robert Kay from Incept Labs. His presentation addressed the theme of innovation and some early research insights on how CEO’s view [...]

… engaging content (Day 2)

Day 2 of the Organisational Resilience seminar, continued to deliver value. Engaging in more ways than one – hardly noticed that the seminar day spanned 12 hours! The day started with a ‘seminar within a seminar’ by Dr John Bircham. Personally I think this 4 hour chunk was worth the price of admission for the [...]

Organisational Resilience seminar (Day 1)

The past week has been highly disrupted by the demand of paid work – which I have discovered is the curse of the blogger. The work I had planned to do on describing a personal position on resilience is still not complete. This week will also be disrupted, but for a much anticipated reason – [...]

… Spring break in Autumn

I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting a paper at DRJ’s Spring World, March 2012 in Orlando, Florida. I have never been to this conference, so thought I would give it a try – and it was unfair to have been critical of something about which I have no direct knowledge. Other [...]

… Cognitive Complexity

I thoroughly enjoyed the Cynefin Seminar yesterday. As we say in Australia, “Do yourself a favor” – click through to that link and see if it is scheduled in your area soon. Dave Snowden will challenge you to think about things differently, and has a remarkable capacity to entertain while doing it. Not surprising, I [...]