Six ideas for a fast start in the new financial year
Brad McSwain – June 2014
The first quarter of the new financial year can be a slow start as we all take a collective breath and reflect on the past year’s performance. Right Lane shares six ideas that can help your organisation get off to a fast start in the new financial year.
Case study: from charity to collective impact
Giselle Diego and Stephanie Exton – June 2014
Collective impact is a framework used by philanthropic foundations to address social problems. Right Lane worked with George Hicks Foundation to develop their new strategy to enable them to have the kind of impact it always set out to have.
Organisational agility – how to knock down structures that are limiting your organisation’s effectiveness.
Matt Hardy and Dr Marc Levy – 2014
Agile organisations dramatically outperform inflexible ones. This Right Lane white paper explains how your organisation can increase its strategic freedom, capacity and focus, and provides 10 practical tips that can help improve your organisational agility.
Intensive business planning: A case study
Julia Bentley – December 2013
Case study: A focused and disciplined approach to business planning, undertaken in an intensive week of activity, allowed the MD to initiate necessary organisational changes quickly and to build momentum for performance improvement.
The end is the beginning: An approach to strategy development
Stuart Wilkinson – December 2013
The best, and most sustainable, strategies are widely supported, which means appropriately involving not only the executive and staff in developing strategy, but also the board. In this article Right Lane identifies three basic foundations for getting started with strategy.
A sourcing framework for a PMO
November 2013
How can a PMO readily access skills and capacity to get projects done? From our experience of working with our clients’ Project Management Offices (PMOs), we propose a sourcing framework to assist in deciding whether a project – or the roles within a project – should be outsourced or kept in-house.
Top 10 thoughts about change
May 2013
This article provides a range of insights about change from some philosophers, economists, writers and analysts; from Greek Philosophers to Michael Jackson.
Demographic change – a graphic thought that will impact us all
May 2013
A graphic representation of the demographic change from 2000 to 2020 in Australia.
Let’s talk about change
Stuart Wilkinson – May 2013
This article provides insights into some of the human aspects of change management. Drawing from the literature on dispute resolution and mediation, organisations will be better prepared for change if their leaders engage in ‘deep listening’ to understand the motivations and behaviours of their employees.
Changing for the better
Dr Marc Levy – May 2013
In 2011, Right Lane became a ‘for-benefit’ enterprise, reflecting formally what the firm had been doing
informally for some years in trying to create an ethical consulting practice.