Consultant and Speaker in Creativity, Innovation, Idea Management, Organisational Change, and Culture.
Melbourne Area, Australia
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- Director at Cognitive Transitions
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- Senior Consultant / Senior Change Analyst at ANL Container Lines
- Senior Consultant at Prima Consulting
- Doctoral Researcher at The University of Queensland
- Director, Strategic Marketing at Mediboss Pty Ltd
- Education
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- The University of Queensland
- University of Adelaide
- University of Adelaide
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Lauchlan Mackinnon, Ph.D’s Summary
I deliver business value to organisations by reviewing current situations and objectives, framing options, aligning business value to be delivered with corporate strategic objectives, and jointly implementing organisational initiatives - supported by effective change management - to realise the value.
I have a unique and valuable perspective based on the combination of my academic research and practical business experience.
Key areas of activity include:
* Innovation systems (capture, develop, select and implement ideas and turn them into tangible business outcomes)
* Creativity tools, techniques and culture
* Change Management
* Organisational Culture
Other foci of interest include:
* Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Mapping (define and implement metrics to realise and monitor the effectiveness of your strategy)
* Blue Ocean Strategy ('value innovation' to shape markets you own and where your competition is irrelevant)
* Organisational Learning, Knowledge Management, and Wisdom Management
* Scenario Planning (identify your primary business drivers, work with your management and staff to develop flexible mental frameworks to respond proactively to changes in your business operating environment)
Lauchlan Mackinnon, Ph.D’s Specialties:
change management, organisational culture, creativity, innovation, knowledge management, organisational learning, idea management systems, idea management software, scenario planning, balanced scorecard, strategy maps, performance management, PRINCE2
Lauchlan Mackinnon, Ph.D’s Experience
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Director
Cognitive Transitions
(Management Consulting industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Cognitive Transitions (http://www.cognitive-transitions.com) will assist your organisation differentiate from your competition through developing a superior innovation and organisational change capability.
Cognitive Transitions will assist you to review your objectives and current situation, identify an appropriate range of options, distil a clear business case for your organisational transformation or innovation initiative, design and implement an optimal solution for your needs, manage the people side of implementing change, and realize your organiization's strategic goals and ROI on the investment. -
Senior Consultant / Senior Change Analyst
ANL Container Lines
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
December 2007 — June 2008 (7 months)
The change initiative was a global transition of transactional shipping management system. In this contract role:
* I facilitated the development of the strategic 'case for change', aligning the change initiative with ANLs strategic goals and the benefits to be realised
* I designed the change management methodology
* I was involved in all aspects of Change Management operations including conducting sessions with business stakeholders to assess impacts of the change , map existing processes and define 'to be' processes, review and update stakeholder impact analysis, planning and managing communications, plan and deliver presentations to staff groups, and to plan and deliver training in relation to changed processes
* I introduced ongoing measurement of the level of acceptance of change over time based on a Prosci 'ADKAR' approach
* I provided coaching, training and transfer of appropriate templates and knowledge to help embed change management best practices in the organisation -
Senior Consultant
Prima Consulting
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 2 months)
Prima Consulting is focused around:
- Business Intelligence,
- Knowledge Management
- Environmental Sustainability
- Medium Sized Projects
My roles at Prima included:
- Undertaking Change Management, Project Management and Consulting engagements for a range of Prima's clients, such as:
-- Change Management for a global transport organisation
-- leading a portal technology evaluation and selection consulting engagement for an educational institution
-- Project Management for a key business application for Australia's largest telecommunications organisation.
- Chairing Prima's internal Process Improvement Group to improve Prima's SDLC and PRINCE2 processes and institutionalise process changes within the organisation. I developed a Change Management approach based on approaches such as PROSCI, Kotter's "leading change" and PRINCE2 to assist in institutionalising the process changes within the organisation -
Doctoral Researcher
The University of Queensland
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
February 1998 — March 2006 (8 years 2 months)
My doctoral thesis was concerned with creativity and the spread of ideas. I:
* drew on the psychology of creativity literature to examine the genesis of economic ideas in the creative work processes of economists, and
* drew on sociological theory to help understand generally how economic ideas become institutionalised into economic institutions.
I argued that once economists have ideas about the economy, and those ideas are then disseminated within the economy, those ideas help change the nature and dynamics of the economic system and economists are not 'objectively' modelling economic systems being studied like classical 19th century physicists, but are instead active participants in shaping the economic system they are studying - more like quantum physicists in the 20th century.
My thesis (http://eprint.uq.edu.au/archive/00004455/) was very interdisciplinary, drawing on literature in economics, psychology, sociology and philosophy. -
Director, Strategic Marketing
Mediboss Pty Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1995 — March 1998 (2 years 8 months)
In this position for a small Australian organisation with customers in the UK, USA, Australia and Singapore, I took on roles of strategic marketing, project manager, and new product development. I developed an online marketing plan (effective use of the internet for marketing was relatively new then) to utilise the internet to create greater intimacy with potential and actual customers and facilitate improved support. I planned and ran exhibits at industry trade shows, and negotiated and managed distributor relationships. I was responsible for managing major global accounts.
Lauchlan Mackinnon, Ph.D’s Education
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The University of Queensland
Ph.D , Philosophy, Economics, Sociology and Psychology , 1998 — 2006
My doctoral thesis "The Social Construction of Economic Man" spanned economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy and political science and can be downloaded from http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:7960.
- Activities and Societies:
- Social Events Planner, Romance Languages Club
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University of Adelaide
BE (Hons) , Electrical and Electronic Engineering , 1986 — 1992
I was awarded First Class Honours
- Activities and Societies:
- Vice President, Snow Ski Club
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University of Adelaide
B.SC (Hons) , Mathematics , 1986 — 1990
I was awarded First Class Honours
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Lauchlan Mackinnon, Ph.D’s Interests:
creativity, innovation, knowledge management, organisational learning, organisational culture, change management, organisational development, strategy, scenario planning, presentations, seminars, Buddhism, philosophy
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