During my career I've been fortunate to work in a space that I am passionate about - policy, education and people. The universities and TAFEs I have worked with are full of deeply committed, passionate people doing important work. But too often legacy ways of working get in the way - creating bottlenecks, slowing decisions, creating unnecessary friction and pulling time and energy away from students, research and real-world impact. A question I hear again and again is: How d

I have been reflecting on my experience working in the Energy sector, one of the most complex, regulated and rapidly evolving industries in Australia. Operating under intense regulation, cost-of-living pressure and public scrutiny, energy organisations must deliver reliable, affordable services while enabling the energy transition, evolving markets like EV and distributed energy, and national decarbonisation commitments. In my experience, technical or regulatory constraints

This is the 15th blog post in the Organising for Outcomes series. It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways of working have evolved, and the context that those ways of working evolved in. This helps us to understand why we’re working the way we’re working and what we might want to change in today’s context, which is significantly different compared to previous technology-led revolutions. In the previous post, we looked at the rise and rise of a scie