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Research into organisational change management has been rampant globally for well over 60 years, but the pace of this research has accelerated in the last 15 years or so. It has resulted in over 2 million academic articles being written and dozens of models and approaches to change, all designed to provide the answer to the vexing question of how to implement successful change.

Interestingly, very little of this research has been undertaken from …

Manuela Whitford is the CEO and founder of Friends With Dignity, a charity providing practical support for those displaced by domestic violence. She is this week’s Changemaker.

Launching in 2015, Friends With Dignity have formed strong partnerships with a network of refuges and community services, to provide anonymous support to get all victims of domestic violence back on their feet.   

The volunteer-run organisation is expanding nationally and now has around 135 active volunteers, who carry out tasks from sewing curtains, to furnishing emergency homes, to providing …

Job creation for those most disadvantaged represents the biggest opportunity for social change in Australia, writes Mark Hemetsberger, head of marketing at Social Traders, ahead of The Social Enterprise Conference.

According to a recent article in The Age, the jobless are forgotten. Senior writer Matt Wade observed that 730,000 Australians find themselves without work, with 94,000 of those on the unemployed list for two years or more, which is the highest in 18 years.

Procurement (the act of obtaining or buying goods and services) in …