DISCERNING ACTION

During my 15 years as a management consultant (IBM and Aptech) followed by 13 years managing a research and development enterprise of over 200 people (CSIRO), I developed a passionate interest in how decisions are made in unpredictable, uncertain and emergent situations. I recognized that my strong analytic training and early experience (Production and R&D Engineering) were valuable but insufficient for these situations... During the second half of my time at CSIRO, I began informally developing and refining my practical observations and experience about decision making under emergent uncertainty and unpredictability. This was supplemented with private reading and research in the underpinning areas of complex adaptive systems, sense making, systems dynamics, knowledge management, and behavioral psychology and economics. In early 2013, I left CSIRO to pursue these interests through Discerning Action Pty Ltd, of which I am Founder and Principal.

Also known as: Discerning Action Pty Ltd