Insanity is repeating the mistakes of the past and…
If media reports are correct, the structure of a potential ‘congestion tax’ for Western Australian seems lazy, poorly constructed and outdated. The proposed tax seems to slug the registration of all motor vehicles with a flat-rate fee (based on vehicle type). All vehicle owners will have to pay the tax – regardless of their location […]
The Clash of Traditional Planning Controls and Emerging Business Models
In Western Australia what activities you can and can’t locate on any particular piece of land is governed by zones and land uses within a local planning scheme, each scheme unique to each local government area. Zones dictate the permissibility of different land uses in the area designated. Land uses describe a particular type of […]
Sunk Investment Sinks Strategy
Decentralising jobs away from existing agglomerations of activity is expensive and unproductive. A common response to the perceived negative impacts of sprawl is to seek to shift jobs to the urban fringes assuming that, by strengthening the relationship between where residents live and work, issues such as congestion and dormitory suburbs can be more effectively […]
City of Innovation Enabling Strategy – Academic Paper
Click on the following link to read the full Academic Paper written by Michael Chappell. City of Innovation Enabling Strategy Academic Paper Excerpt from the paper… “Problem Statement Traditional methods look at comparative rates of financial return on alternate uses of scarce capital. These methods examine the likelihood of future cashflows for well-understood activities, with […]
Cluster Mapping
The US Economic Development Administration, in partnership with Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan, have recently released an interactive database which maps ‘clusters’ throughout the country right down to the county level (see clustermapping.us). Clusters are agglomerations, or a critical mass, of business activity in a given industry (e.g. Wall Street, Hollywood, Silicon Valley). The […]
Garden City Expansion
The Western Australian Planning Commission has approved the expansion of AMP Capital’s Garden City shopping centre, allowing it to grow to 120,000sqm and making it one of WA’s largest shopping centres. Pracsys played a vital role in the Structure Plan, working within a multi-disclinary team to develop the strategy and provide the evidence base to […]
The new Perth Stadium
The State Government has announced the Westadium consortium, led by Brookfield Financial and John Laing as the preferred respondent to design, build, finance and maintain Perth’s new 60,000 seat stadium and sports precinct. The contract is currently in negotiation and is expected to be awarded mid-year. Pracsys provided specialist advice to the consortium which included […]
Launch of the Craft Report
Pracsys, in association with Consultant, Jude van der Merwe prepared a report on behalf of the Chamber of Arts and Culture WA focussing on the state of Craft in Western Australia. The project involved widespread consultation and strategy setting, supported by an online survey which yielded over 300 responses. The report was officially launched by […]
RDA Smarter Cities Conference
Pracsys has been invited to participate in the Smarter Cities Conference – an initiative to help councils, senior executives and management learn how to effectively employ digital technology. Michael Chappell will be presenting on how to better engage constituents in order to achieve participative democracy and to manage change by measuring, analysing and transforming service […]
The future of a technological workforce
Imagine reversing your workweek with your weekend: Monday blues would skip straight through the week to the Friday highs and the weekend. Economist John Keynes envisioned this world in 1930, when he predicted that increases in technology would outpace any new uses we could find for labour [1]. Increased efficiency and automated technology would drive […]
