{"id":17245,"date":"2008-10-20T08:19:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T00:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/new-curtin-centre-delivers-innovative-thinking\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T00:19:22","slug":"new-curtin-centre-delivers-innovative-thinking","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/new-curtin-centre-delivers-innovative-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"New Curtin centre delivers innovative thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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20 October 2008<\/span><\/div>\n

Â鶹ֱ²¥ of Technology\u2019s newly launched Centre for Innovation in Decision Quality (CIDQ) will provide expertise and training in innovative thinking and decision quality to meet the spiralling needs of the business sector.<\/p>\n

Recognising the growing complexity of the marketplace, increased executive accountability and the demands of sound corporate governance, the CIDQ, which is part of Curtin\u2019s Graduate School of Business, combines research and practice with an ultimate focus on enhanced decision quality.<\/p>\n

Dr Margot Wood, who co-directs the CIDQ with Associate Professor Des Klass, said poor decision making and inadequate decision processes incur very real costs to an organisation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CIDQ is addressing these issues by bringing together a diverse team with significant senior management expertise and a strong research base,\u201d Dr Wood said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Centre focuses on maximising decision quality and identifying and managing innovation opportunities within organisations.\u00a0 Working closely with the organisation we then develop practical and creative approaches designed to address the challenges or opportunities they face.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look to develop high performance cultures and inspire leaders to think differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CIDQ has provided support to a broad range of organisations in different industries. The Centre\u2019s current research program includes examining decision quality in the mining and resource related sector across Australia and Southeast Asia, strategic decision making in the public sector and a three stage innovation study focusing on professional services.<\/p>\n

The success of CIDQ\u2019s innovative approach was apparent following the \u2018Thinking Differently \u2013 Our Journey Continues\u2019 retreat which was organised for the Perth office of national and international law firm, Minter Ellison and facilitated by Dr Margot Wood and Dianna Vitasovic.<\/p>\n

Dr Wood said the Retreat was designed to not only engage participants, but also provided a set of supporting tools and techniques for people to draw upon and an immediate opportunity to begin \u2018thinking differently.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThe journey started when Minter Ellison began to explore opportunities for taking their already successful practice to the next level,\u201d Dr Wood said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe overall project was a collaborative exercise. It involved co-creation of internal processes, development of support systems, tools and processes, an organisation-wide experiential retreat and development of follow-up
\nsystems to encourage the generation of ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Poulsen, Managing Partner for Minter Ellison Perth commented on the experience of working with the CIDQ team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found working with Margot and Dianna from CIDQ to be a fantastic and invigorating experience.\u00a0 They challenged me and my management team each step of the way to really think about our objectives for the retreat and how best to achieve those objectives.<\/p>\n

\u201cMargot’s and Dianna’s organisational skills are second to none and the feedback from our staff on the retreat was overwhelmingly positive.\u201d<\/p>\n

To find out more information about Curtin\u2019s Centre for Innovation in Decision Quality visit: http:\/\/www.cbs.curtin.edu.au\/business\/professional-services<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Contacts:\u00a0 Dr Margot Wood; Centre for Innovation in Decision Quality; Curtin; 08 9266 3564; Margot.Wood@curtin.edu.au<\/a> or Monique Billstein; Public Relations; Curtin; 08 9266 3353; 0401 103 018; M.Billstein@curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n

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