A number of years ago, a colleague and I were doing a Board/Top Management Team intervention at a major diversified multinational.  It was interesting in that the firm was fairly financially successful but was struggling in key businesses.  It also […]

When, on November 29th 1990, the then Australian Treasurer Paul Keating faced a financial crisis that would severely damage major sections of the Australian economy he said “[t]his was the recession we had to have”.  Later, when queried about the […]

In a discussion related to a Strategic Review of my school’s research function, the issue of individual and organizational ambition arose.  I thought this was an interesting discussion and think it reflects well on the key to the research strategy […]

The last few months have clearly been trying on the nerves and confidence of many British academics.  The vote for Brexit, and the divide it revealed between younger and more well-educated voters and those older and less well-educated, has reverberated […]

The recent decline of the majority of Australian universities in the World University Rankings has university vice chancellors passing on the blame to the government and the system underlying the rankings. According to Prof Glyn Davis of The University of […]

In the last several weeks we have seen a number of universities beginning a significant push into the philanthropic space.  Some of this has been pre-planned as part of a longer term strategy.  For others it has been more of […]

Across three continents we have seen questions being raised about the compensation paid to the heads of academic institutions.  This has mostly played out in the USA and the UK where the impact of the financial crisis and the downturn […]

Stephen Machett of the Australian made a fairly cogent commentary on the recent “Smart Manufacturing” report that was released in the last week by the Australian government.  The logic of this “independent” report was that Australia was losing the productivity […]