Executive Summary
Could a free consultant help your team analyse and formulate an innovative response to a complex business challenge?
Your challenge may involve creating/improving:
- A system or business process
- Communication within or outside of your business
- Ways of collaborating and working
- Details: examples
The potential benefit to your business is a tailored action plan to respond to your unique challenge. You will also be contributing to original Australian research. Details: benefits
The consultant-researcher - Mr Zern Liew - will work as a member of your team to facilitate the use of a novel hybrid framework. This evidence-based Framework enables individuals to develop creative and practical responses to complex business challenges. Details: process
Your project should run for about 8-12 weeks meeting 1-3 times a week (to define the challenge and create a response plan) starting July 2024 onwards. The consultant-researcher will accommodate your schedule where possible. Your business will receive 96 or more hours of the consultant-researcher's time devoted to your challenge. Details: participation
Your team should comprise 7-10 participants with varied roles. Participation is voluntary and unpaid. Each participant will need to devote about 4.5 hours total to research activities during this period. The consultant-researcher will interview participants several times about their subjective experience of using the Framework. This is not an evaluation of your business or individual participants. Details: aims
The consultant-researcher has three decades of international business consulting experience plus interdisciplinary tertiary qualifications, including business management. Details: people profiles
This work is part of the consultant-researcher's PhD project. It has the approval of Murdoch University's Human Research Ethics Committee (approval 2023/147). There are strict guidelines to protect the confidentiality of your business information and the privacy of participants. Details: confidentiality
For details, please explore this site or contact the consultant-researcher.
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