Human from Scratch: an emergent role for humanising the organisation PhDI Innovation Portfolio Proposal Planned Innovation Human from Scratch is an emergent role-based approach to addressing organisational culture at organisational learning at UNE. Organisational culture is well-identified in the literature as a Read more…
This task – the final one before working on the innovation project proposal – was two sets of trigger questions for a needs analysis and broad contextualisation. I’ve been lazy here and added these as the originally submitted PDF documents Read more…
This task focused on analysing the project within the framework of Patton’s developmental evaluation (2011). Developmental evaluation, as outlined by Patton (2011), really resonated with me as an evaluation strategy. We spend so much time in higher education approaching evaluation Read more…
This task was designed to introduce new researchers to research methods, primarily qualitative and social methods. I will confess I did not invest very heavily in this, and I will also say that my overall project direction changed after this Read more…
This task involved mapping out the capabilities required to implement innovation and change successfully in an organisational context. Below is a dynamic visualisation of these (sounds much more impressive than it actually is) done in Kumu, which you should be Read more…
I’ve had this rattling around in my brain for a while now. It began when the question was asked – why would a learning designer research organisational learning? – and grew as I found myself adapting and evolving the way Read more…
(as a side note, I live in hope that one day not all public domain stock images will be painfully cliche and twee…) The nature of critical thinking in relation to this project is a tricky thing – it’s not Read more…
Stakeholder analysis The matrix above is a hybrid that follows Kennon, Howdon and Hartley’s (2009) stakeholder analysis matrix, but is adapted with a coding overlay modified from Mendelow‘s (1981) stakeholder mapping model, which was useful to crystallise my own thinking. Read more…
This task required reading Gibbons et al’s work on modes of knowledge production, then reflecting on the implications of the two modes in my proposed research. This got rather prickly, but I felt I couldn’t shy away from the tensions Read more…
I have tried three times now to write this particular thing, each a failed attempt at resolving the tension between the academic and the authentic. Eventually I came to the conclusion that I cannot in good faith make the argument Read more…