Dr Andrew (Drew) Wollin
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Business Services |
| Occupation | Strategic/Change management theorist (retired) |
| Location | Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia |
| Introduction | Born Echuca/Moama on the Murray River NSW/Vic 1955 Echuca Primary, Echuca High School. B Engineering Hons (Agricultural) Melbourne, M Eng Sci (Electrical/Agricultural) Melbourne, Grad Dip Digital Computer Engineering RMIT, B Business (Economics/Law) Monash, PhD (Business) Griffith. Occupations: State Rivers & Water Supply Commission Vic; computer modelling. Dept. Agriculture Vic; Post-harvest horticulture, computer modelling, optimisation and process control. Department of Primary Industries Qld, Manager of engineering research; establishing new industries (PhD topic), commercialising technology, plus many other areas, post PhD in DPI Policy. University of Queensland, Management School; MBA/UG: teaching- strategic management, organisation theory (change), entrepreneurship, introduction to academic research (PhD/Hons); research supervision (PhD/MBA/Hons); research interests: change theory, complexity theory, governance, philosophy of science and qualitative research methods. Medically retired; continuing work on change theory, still renovating 11th house, computing, restoring/tuning Skyline and recently returned to amateur radio/TV. |
| Interests | I have two persona, working with my head or with my hands. I need to do both to feed the other. In all things, multi-disciplinary and innovation. change theory, change management, strategic management, organisation theory, entrepreneurship, industry ecology, philosophy of science, philosophy of engineering, case research methods, Middle-East history, computing, computer hardware, home cinema, amateur radio, amateur television, digital radio, sports cars- Skyline GTS-T R33, 4WD Pajero, renovating houses, listening to music |
| Favorite movies | Animation, for technical innovation, for innovate screen-writing |
| Favorite music | singer-song writers, mainly woman, ballads, Melanie Safka, Marianne Faithful, Leonard Cohen, many others |
| Favorite books | Herbert Simon Sciences of the Artificial 1969 3rd Ed, diverse non-fiction |