- What the heck is a process really?

- What are common misconceptions about working with processes?

- How do processes link to strategy?

- How does Business Process Management link to fields like Service Design and Customer Journey Mapping?

Roger Tregear is Principal Advisor at TregearBPM. He spends his working life talking, consulting, thinking, presenting, recording, and writing about the analysis, innovation, improvement, and management of business processes. Roger’s practice and client base are global with assignments completed in 15 countries. Roger writes, presents, and records videos on many topics related to process-based management.

Stefan Norrvall plays around in the space of organisations that could be viewed as the intersection of learning, design, development, architecture, and strategy. Despite his cynicism of mainstream management and organisational practices he's still giving it a crack as the constructive irritant trying to change the system from the inside. He's that annoying person that that keep saying there are better ways to do this you know... He's currently working with a large Telco to try and shift how it thinks about design of work systems and process management.

- Is a small business an economic unit whose profits should seek maximisation or is it that friendly person selling you  a cup of coffee every morning?

- What drives the people who create these businesses?

- What can governments and banks do to help (or to hinder) them?

In this podcast, Michael Schaper and Scott Holmes answer these questions and more.

Scott Holmes is an economic consultant previously Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Western Sydney University.  He has been researching small firms for over 30 years and was made a life member of the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand in recognition of his research effort.

An experienced CEO, board director, regulator and small business/economic development specialist in Australia and internationally, Michael Schaper is currently chairing both the federal government’s Black Economy Advisory Board, and the self-regulatory body for Australia’s buy-now-pay-later fintech sector; he is also a member of the ACT Chief Minister’s Economic Advisory Group.

Get the book: Small Business Exposed

What is a ritual and how can it make our working lives better?

John Dobbin is a senior Agile Transformation consultant who works in large finance and telecommunications companies in APAC, Europe, and the Middle East. He has a background in organisational development, computer science, and mathematics. His current focus is de-mathematising key concepts from complexity science and importing them to management theory: exploring ways to make organisations endogenously adaptive to VUCA environments.

Back in March 2020, David Burt and Phil Hayes-St Clair gave a prescient, pointed presentation on what this thing called COVID-19 might mean for the Australian Start-up Community - listen here: https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=596861

Over a year later, I asked them to take stock of the events that have happened since then, where reality matched their expectations (and where it didn't) and what may be in store for the Australian Startup Community in the future.

They provide fascinating insights on topics ranging from financing trends to mental health.

In a world that seems obsessed with innovation and novelty, what does it mean to focus on maintenance and care? This podcast features the founders of  The Maintainers, a global research network interested in the concepts of maintenance, infrastructure, repair, and the myriad forms of labor and expertise that sustain our human-built world. They are also the authors of a new book called "The Innovation Delusion".

Andy Russell is Dean, College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

Lee Vinsel is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.

Link to The Maintainers community: https://themaintainers.org/

A digital explosion has ripped through the battlefield. Multiple data trajectories have ruptured our capacity to make sense of and manage the effects of war. Radical War maps and traces war’s data trajectories from the battlefield, in the cloud, through the archive, in memory and out into the deeply mediated technologies that we use. Framing Radical War as a relationship between data, attention and control, it is a lens for highlighting the complex intra-dependent relationship between war, smart devices and web platforms.

Dr Matthew Ford in a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at University of Sussex. Andrew Hoskins is Interdisciplinary Research Professor in Global Security in the College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow. 

Website: http://www.radicalwar.com/

Twitters:

https://twitter.com/warmatters

https://twitter.com/andrewhoskins

Stuart Buchanan is a cultural programmer and curator, who seeks to deepen our relationship with the arts through digital channels and platforms. He has collaborated with artists and producers to devise and deliver many award-winning digital projects, from developing one of Scotland’s first cultural websites (for Edinburgh Fringe) through to the current Covid-19 Digital Season for Sydney Opera House. His work also extends to music programming, for broadcasters such as ABC Double J and FBi Radio, and as Director of the experimental music initiative, New Weird Australia.

Stuart talks about digital programming at Australia's most recognisable arts institution, coping with COVID and the future of art.

Sydney Opera House: https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/digital.html

New Weird Australia: https://www.newweirdaustralia.com.au/

Alan is the founder of industry analyst firm Deep Analysis and author of Amazon bestseller “Practical Artificial Intelligence - An Enterprise Playbook” - Alan has over 20 years experience as an adviser to tech firms and enterprises - focusing on emerging technology trends in Information Management.

We talk about the skills needed to effectively use tools such as artificial intelligence and automation.

https://www.deep-analysis.net/