IPA Blog | Business Improvement

22 September 2026 • Daniel Harper

AI-Augmented Strategy: Decision-Making in the Next Era

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future-state discussion in Australian boardrooms. It’s here — embedded in analytics ...

21 September 2026 • Marcus Ellery

Crowdsourced Kaizen: New Tools, New Voices

The Best Improvement Ideas Usually Come From the People Doing the Work One thing I’ve learned in process improvement is that ...

31 August 2026 • Marcus Ellery

Fixing Processes Without Fixing Culture?

Sometimes the Process Isn’t the Problem One of the hardest lessons in process improvement is realising that sometimes the ...

30 August 2026 • Sologic

The Problem with “Just Ask Why” (and What to Do Instead)

“Have you tried the Five Whys?” It’s usually the first thing people reach for when something goes wrong. And to be fair, ...

25 August 2026 • Sologic

A Near Miss Is Not a Lucky Escape. It Is a Warning.

Some incidents do not end in injury.

23 August 2026 • Sologic

The Problem Usually Gets Messy After the Meeting

The first problem-solving conversation is often the easiest part. Everyone is in the room. The issue is fresh. People ...

19 August 2026 • Sologic

Human Error Is Often Where the Investigation Stops Too Soon

“Human error” is one of the easiest explanations to write down after something goes wrong. It sounds reasonable. It is ...

17 August 2026 • Sologic

The Problem With Wanting RCA to Be Fast

In most workplaces, speed is rewarded. A breakdown happens. Production is interrupted. Customers are waiting. Leaders want ...

16 August 2026 • Marcus Ellery

The Invisible Waste: Cognitive Load in Processes

For decades, process improvement teams have been trained to look for the obvious stuff.

11 August 2026 • Daniel Harper

Climate Transition Risk as Strategic Leverage: Turning Uncertainty into Competitive Advantage

For many organisations, climate transition risk still sits in the ESG reporting column — a compliance exercise, a board ...

05 August 2026 • Sologic

Why Your Corrective Action List Keeps Growing But the Risk Stays the Same

A long corrective action list can look like progress. More training. More checks. More meetings. More procedure updates. ...

02 August 2026 • Sologic

Why good-looking corrective actions still fail?

29 July 2026 • Sologic

The Problem Is Rarely Where The Noise Is Loudest

When something goes wrong, the visible failure usually gets all the attention:

29 July 2026 • Sologic

The Mistake Teams Make When Investigating Pipeline Failures

Let’s talk about a situation that comes up more often than it should.

28 July 2026 • Marcus Ellery

Net-Zero Process Mapping

A few years ago, most conversations about process improvement were pretty straightforward. You’d map a workflow, look for ...

23 July 2026 • Sologic

What is Root Cause Analysis?

Root Cause Analysis - What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Works Root cause analysis (RCA) is a structured, evidence-based ...

21 July 2026 • Mark Thompson

Winning the Budget Battle: Making Asset Investments Stick

For many maintenance managers, one of the hardest parts of the job isn’t fixing machines—it’s convincing leadership to ...

05 July 2026 • Marcus Ellery

Post-AI Workflow Design: Humans in the Loop

One of the most common patterns emerging in organisations right now is that AI has already quietly removed chunks of ...

30 June 2026 • Daniel Harper

Kicking the KPI Habit: Designing Purpose-Aligned Performance Metrics

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) were once the gold standard of performance management. But increasingly, they’ve become a ...

03 June 2026 • Daniel Harper

Strategic Drift in Hybrid Enterprises: Spotting and Correcting the Silent Divergence

Hybrid enterprise models — part physical, part digital — are now standard across NSW and QLD organisations. Flexibility has ...

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