During ABC Radio National’s summer season, I chanced to hear a Hindsight documentary that I’d somehow missed when it was first broadcast in 2008. What a marvellous find it turned out to be!
The program is about Florence Violet McKenzie (nee Wallace), Australia’s first female electrical engineer and a driving force in establishing the Women’s Royal [...]
In times of economic prosperity employers tend to focus on finding the right employees and enticing them to stay with a combination of benefits and working conditions.
These days we face a skills shortage, an uncertain economic environment and a general reluctance to take risks. The HR priority for employers, argues Matt Moore in a recent [...]
In project management terms, the Information Futures Commission achieved sign-off last month.
The Commission delivered three key documents to the University community:
Final Report of the Steering Committee, describing the consultation process, summarising what we learned, and analysing the major areas of contention
Melbourne’s Scholarly Information Future: a ten-year strategy (”Zis iss ze big vun,” as Otto von [...]
M’colleague Michael asked this week whether the Information Futures Commission has identified any recent-ish equivalents to itself at other universities.
A related question has come up several times in the last couple of months. When we ask a senior stakeholder for an opinion about what issues the Commission should tackle, the response is often,”Well, what are [...]
For a successful project, you need an effective steering committee and an influential sponsor who cares about what you’re trying to achieve in the project. Ideally the sponsor should chair the committee.
We had our first steering committee meeting today.
The sponsor/chair opened the meeting.
He tabled a single printed page, an excerpt from a book: Yes Minister’s [...]