I’m bubbling over with excitement at the prospect of introducing our newest director, Linden Kurth. (That’s him on the left in the photo below).
Another fan of bikes and beer (a pre-requisite around these parts), Linden brings a pretty speccy combination of high-level technical expertise and professional qualifications in ICT, Management and Renewable Energies to the business. He’s hit the ground running at Elan, polishing up our soon-to-be-launched “BYOD Guidelines for VET” and Web Application (stay tuned, folks, they’ll be available in June on the National VET E-learning Strategy website), tinkering with our IT systems and learning the lay of the land in Vocational Education and Training. Linden divides his time between Elan and continuing his work as a Senior ICT Consultant and Project Manager with Principal Technologies here in Hobart, currently working on tech projects across a range of industries including Health, Aged Care and Education.
Beer, bikes and beanbags. Who said Strategic Planning had to be painful?
We were snapped here last week, when we grabbed our bikes and took a ride out to the spectacular MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) for our 2014/2015 Strategic Planning Day. Elan is almost coming to our first birthday – and what a year it’s been! As you can probably see, the day was a brilliant mix of work and pleasure, helped along by our inspiring surroundings and a Moo Brew (or two – later in the day). It was a great opportunity to take stock of a whirlwind first year and prioritise our plan of attack for the next part of the journey.
If you were wondering what we’ll be up to in the next 12-18 months, here are just a few of the headlines:
– Offering fully-customised holistic BYOD solutions for VET and Education around Australia. We’ll be doing everything from hardware infrastructure consulting, assisting with creating back-of-house processes and policies, stakeholder engagement and communication, to project management and training. We’ll help RTOs and educational institutions unlock the potential of all of those tiny little computers that students, staff and guests carry around in their pockets with them, without falling into the security and compliance traps that sometimes prevent people from taking this important step into a more mobile and equitable future.
– Looking at developing a sustainable workforce development framework for the ICT industry in Tasmania.
– Finding nifty ways to inform and attract young entrepreneurial people to the ICT industry to grow our regional economy as traditional industries contract.
– Working with older populations of workers and volunteers to increase digital literacy for work.
– Communicating a vision for the expanded use of BYOD for direct industry transferability.
– Piloting new and sustainable methods of getting global leaders in ICT to participate actively in VET in Australia, with particular emphasis on VET in Schools and regional and remote RTOs.
– Developing VET teaching models that utilise technological tools and applications that can be directly applied in the workplace.
– Working with Not-For-Profit clients to project manage and support the process of developing and updating websites and providing ongoing training in keeping content up-to-date. That stuff can be daunting and expensive, so we’re keen to keep helping people navigate through the process.
– Working up Digital Strategies for small and medium enterprises, Not-For-Profits and government.
– Events – more events (we love a good event) and workshops for VET professionals, educators, government workers and community members.
We’ll be presenting a workshop and hosting Cafe Conversations at the Skills Tasmania Conference about some of the topics that are keeping us inspired in workforce development and the applications of technology. We’re also cooking up a surprise activity for visitors to our booth to join in on, so if you’re at the Skills Tas conference, make sure you stop by, say g’day and meet Linden!
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