Organisational Design

Recently I’ve been doing a number of assignments that involve a significant amount of organisational design. I think that the conventional thinking in this space is completely broken and only a view that breaks the existing convention will help.The work I’m doing seems to start from this problem statement: “I’m a CIO and I believe […]

What is Lean?

I think this is a question on the minds of a lot of people in the IT industry at the moment. The Lean operations community have been on their journey longer than we have in IT and from my experiences at Lean 2008 I think that they are starting to really understand what Lean is […]

Reflections on Lean 2008

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday of last week hanging out at Lean 2008 at the Park Hyatt in Melbourne, Australia. The event was organised by Lean Enterprise Australia and they flew in some great speakers from all around the world to talk on all things Lean alongside some locals who are doing some really interesting […]