Conference   2007

David's background is in project management in the construction industry on large projects such as Loy Yang power station in Victoria, the Submarine construction facility in SA, Bruce Stadium & New Parliament House in the ACT.

He joined the Department of Defence in 1989 on the New Submarine Project before working across Defence in the management fields of human resources, information, knowledge, quality, risk and enterprise architecture. David has also worked as a successful management consultant in facilities management and enterprise architecture.

He was previously the information architect for DEWR and is currently managing major procurement projects in government departments, including acquisition and implementation of supporting information management systems. David has a Diploma in engineering and a Masters degree in project management. 

He is the convenor of the ACT KM forum, is active in the IIM and AIPM. David enjoys snow skiing and teaches SCUBA diving in his spare time.

About Presentation (Abstract)

Why is culture so important to an organization and the changes that it experiences?

Edgar Schein suggests that an organization's culture develops to help it cope with its environment, a factor critical to surviving and coping with the rate of change we are all facing today.

This presentation seeks to explore the impact that culture has on change and how change management strategies can leverage the issues within an organisation’s culture in order to better implement information management strategies and systems. David takes a practical approach, looking at several of the issues underpinning organisational culture; several change management methodologies and draws on a number of case studies during this session.