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Workplace Change, Culture & Innovation Case Studies

Articles and tools for success that tackle the challenges of adapting to change in the workplace, building a positive workplace culture that fosters innovation and creativity.



Renovator's Delight

Changing the culture at a 40-year-old not-for-profit housing service meant changing the whole organisational structure.


All Change

An Australian manufacturer that started business making car tools in the 1920s is still thriving - but not in that field.


A Culture You Can't Leave Free to view

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a tourism company was forced into a painful restructure. The result has been a stronger, more profitable business that staff love working for.


Hard Hats

A Melbourne hat business only restructured when external circumstances made change unavoidable. The results have been great. But, in hindsight, perhaps it should have acted earlier?


Sick Puppy Free to view

A new CEO realised she had a problem when few staff members could say who they reported to - or how their work helped the organisation achieve its strategic goals.


Colour Of Money

The multi award-winning Tasmanian company Tas-Saff shows why it pays innovators to be persistent - and ready to try anything.


Cultural Redesign

A prominent design company specialises in interiors that reflect the corporate cultures of its clients. And getting a corporate culture right is a subject that the company intimately understands.


Change Challenge

The restructure of a rapidly growing corporate consultancy put great strain on its freewheeling culture. And hiring a change consultant did not help matters.


Power To The People

Changing the paternalistic culture at a former state-owned power company required courage, planning - and astonishing honesty.


Grow And Be Damned?

A rapidly expanding employment services company says maintaining the culture and service that made it big has been its biggest task.


Good Deeds Can Produce Good Business

Refurbishing an historic Geelong building helped a firm of local architects achieve national prominence.


Bay City Cabs Keep Customers Rolling

The elements of success - good service and management - are simple. Getting them right is the hard part.


Making A Mid-Life Crisis Into A Business

Car enthusiast Bill Hemming has paid a lot more than expected to get his Elfin car company running. But the ledger is not all one-sided - there's passion too.