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Paper Giant is a strategic design consultancy. We help you to understand and solve complex problems, together with your customers and communities.
Paper Giant is a strategic design consultancy that helps organisations understand and solve complex problems, with their customers and communities.
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We can help you navigate COVID-19 and its impacts on workplaces, teams, and individual wellbeing.
Paper Giant has helped a number of organisations understand their workforce needs and plan for changes in response to COVID-19. We can help you understand how to support your staff, make decisions on your future workplace and ways of working, and plan for a future full of diverse needs and distributed teams.
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PG #77: Royal Commissions are systems thinking in practice
The last few weeks have seen the release of two landmark reports out of multi-year Royal Commissions – the first into Aged Care, the second into Mental Health. It’s rare that we get two reports released more or less concurrently, and I found myself drawing some natural comparisons between them. While it’s impossible to summarise both reports, […]
PG #76: Tackling short-termism
Australian governments have a problem with short-termism in policy-making. This isn’t entirely their fault. If the past year has shown us anything, it is that it’s very hard to explain the consequence of something happening to a person who has never experienced it. When you’re at home, sweating through a 35-degree day, it’s hard to […]
PG #75: Looking beyond the barriers
Barriers to a healthy, fair, just, sustainable society are often held in place by deep structures that have little or nothing to do with the defined problem or desired outcome. We are currently doing some work with some philanthropic organisations in the ACT, working to understand the links between family violence and youth homelessness. This work is […]
PG #74: The future of work is hybrid
In 2020, I spent most of my time thinking about the future of work – first, understanding how COVID-19 was forcing us to work differently inside Paper Giant, and then through global research and design project work with Atlassian and other clients. The task of researching and working on such a shared global experience (and […]
PG #73: Looking back to look forward
The month of January is thought to be named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and transitions. Janus is depicted as having two faces – one looking forward and one looking back. One eye on the past and one eye on the future. In January 2021, we could all be forgiven for not wanting […]
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Social Research. Quantitative Research. Data Science. Strategic Foresight.
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Facilitation. Capability Building. Partnering.
Generate
Co-Design. Service Design. Experience Design. Employee Experience. Communication Design. Policy Design. Prototyping. Innovation. Business Transformation.
Evaluate
Monitoring. Evaluation. Validation.
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Paper Giant acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation, and the Ngunnawal people as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which our offices are located, and the Traditional Owners of Country on which we meet and work throughout Australia. We recognise that sovereignty over the land has never been ceded, and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.