Organisation design

Purpose should drive culture

Most organisations have a well-intentioned purpose or mission that is their foundation stone. The purpose defines their reason for being – this is why we established our business, this is what we set out to achieve, it is what we collectively strive for. The purpose...

Horses, Trojan horses and organisational culture

Animal metaphors are common in business circles. The other day Karina and I were discussing the type of work we do around organisational culture. We spend an increasingly large amount of time talking about tigers, elephants, Trojan horses and the impact these ‘Trojan horse’ projects...

Designing human-centred organisational culture

I have just published an article over at Medium based on the talk I gave at this year's UX Australia. The article captures my reflections on the role human-centred designers should be playing to help organisations become better versions of themselves. The talk is inspired by...