Paul Houghton
Paul is currently the Director of KT Studio, an applied research group in Central TAFE (Western Australia), where he is applying new approaches to generate ideas and support thinking across all sectors. This helps organisations and projects become resilient in an interconnected and complex world where knowledge, relationships and information are critical elements to any resilience strategy.
The core of this work is in supporting the fields of education, sustainable management, policy, interdisciplinary decision-making and innovation systems. Complex, adaptive technology environments are designed and implemented to connect networks of people, information and interactions to promote learning, research, innovation and the leverage of knowledge.
Paul has spent 30 years in a career in information and knowledge management to bring him to the point where many of the underlying philosophies and principles are now being applied to completely new environments, business models, expectations and possibilities.
A solid training in the use and management of information came from many years with the Australian Bureau of Statistics where he left in 1989 as manager of statistical consultancy, helping government get better value from their information. A move to the State Government in 1990 led to a 7 year involvement in the development of information policy for Western Australia in both Treasury and Premier and Cabinet.
The need to ground the policy in operational reality and the opportunity to bring an agency into an online world came with a move to the Department of Transport in 1997, and other Departments subsequently. Here Paul worked for 5 years producing new web sites, new infrastructure and new approaches to the management and use of knowledge, which was the business of the various agencies. This work formed the basis of KT Studio.
