About

I am IT veteran of 25+ years, business strategist, Microsoft MVP, sensemaker, author and the director of Seven Sigma Business Solutions. Based in Perth, Western Australia. I specialise in sensemaking, design thinking, strategic planning, complex decision making, digital transformation, IT governance, and all facets of Office365/SharePoint delivery. I have various nerdy certifications so can also mix it with the tech side of things…

I’ve written two acclaimed books, with both award finalists or winners. “The Heretics Guide to Best Practices: The Reality of Managing Complex Problems in Organisations” and more recently “The Heretics Guide to Management: The Art of Harnessing Ambiguity”. 

I’ve also run a startup from idea to product delivery and everything in between. Glyma was a WAITTA innovation award finalist and is now open source and deployed in various places.

I’m one of four certified Dialogue Mappers worldwide and the only authorised trainer outside of the USA. Dialogue Mapping is a radically inclusive technique to help groups deal with wicked problems.

More recently I have developed significant skills in Microsoft PowerApps, Flow, Cognitive Services and Azure Functions. This has culminated in running PowerApps hackathons in Australia and New Zealand.

Specialties:
Complex problem facilitation via Dialogue and Issue Mapping (org design, org strategy, project lessons learnt, etc)
Digital Workplace Transformation, Cloud/Hybrid strategy and implementation (AWS, Azure, Office365)
SharePoint governance, Information Architecture and collabroative delivery practices
IT Management, Architecture and Strategy. IT Governance, Project Management, Business analysis, requirements gathering,
Knowledge management and intellectual capital strategy and Information Management/Governance
OD, Strategic planning and goal alignment

16 Comments on “About

  1. Dear Paul,
    I am fortunate to meet your friend Mr. kailash Awati today and would like to connect to you as well. Congratulations ! To you bothfor the Indie award. Wish you more laurels. God Bless your good work and technology contributions.
    kannan sreedhar
    +65-81574120

  2. Thank you for creating the video in uploading photos to sharepoint From Powerapps. It was just what I needed.

    Do you have documentation on how to get a shared link to the newly uploaded file, and bring it back to powerapps?

  3. Hi Chris

    Yes you can configure the swagger file to send data back to PowerApps in this way. I don’t have an example though but watch this space. When my daughter has finished her exams we will cover this…

    Paul

  4. Paul,

    Great write-up on using Flow to allow PowerApps to post to a document library! Thank you for the concise directions. I was attempting to extend your sample by allowing a user to create a list item and then attaching pictures to the attachments field. Everything works as you would expect EXCEPT that the same .JPG file that works in a document library is unusable in the SharePoint UI when it’s attached to a list item!

    Any idea on why the file formats are different and how to make the file compatible with a List Item attachment?

    John

  5. Hi Paul
    Your Posts on PowerApps & Flow are very helpful!! I’m having an issue where dropdown controls on Edit forms retain values selected in them when you move off an Edit screen. So I could select a value from a dropdown in Record1 and not save the record but when I go into Record 2 ( or open a new form to create a new Record) the value I selected previously is already selected there. I’ve tried Reset( control), ResetForm(Form) etc but nothing seems to work. Any ideas or Clever Workarounds for this ?

  6. Hi Poul
    Thanks for some great videoes on youtube. I am working on a new project in PowerApps, but are having some trouble. I need to make some simple drawings on a plandraw, and save it. It could be a cross on the plan, and I have to combine these two drawings. If possible, it would be great to load a pinture into the Pen Input – but is it possible?

  7. Hi team!!!
    How are you?

    Do you offer article placements on your site?

    – We would get the article written which will fit the nature/topic of your site.
    – In the article there is a good chance there will be a link going to a gaming/betting review site, which will be very well integrated.
    – Payment is made via Paypal.

    What are your rates for such a placement?

    Thank you.

    Kind Regards,

    Claire – Media Manager
    Webcontentzone

  8. Hi Paul
    I had the chance to see your PowerApps video on inspection checklists. It mentions that you would be willing to share the setup for the checklists you developed in the five minute video. I am the safety director for a small not for profit agency located in Elmira N.Y. Thanks for your help!

  9. Just come across Dialogue Mapping and saw your video
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-sv5I59Fxw
    ‪Dialogue Mapping The Lord Of The Rings with Paul Culmsee & Nick Martin‬‏ – YouTube

    Thought this would be great with a team I am working with whom cannot get on the same page. Trying to follow it your demo, I have a single question.

    Would you be so kind to go step by step when creating the map “Discussion on destroying the ring” and copying the items into the map.

    1) Alt + Node selects the items plus children.

    I do not know which key strokes use use to get the lot into the new map. It looked like you drag & dropped but that did not work for me.

    Version I am using is CompendiumLD 1.2 Beta 3
    Based on Compendium 1.5.2 + 2 Alpha

  10. Hi Ashlee and Paul,
    I have just started learning Powerapps (about 5 months ago).
    I just found your 5 Minute youtube video about the audit app and in the notes you are mantioning, that it is possible to get it. I would be really interested to get a hold on it.
    If this is not possible, maybe you can help me with the question how you can show multiple pins on the map in a radius around you. I have only founf tutorials how to show either your current location or the location of 1 e.g. single account.
    Many thanks in advance for your help.
    Kind regards,
    Michaela

  11. Indeed! I am with Michaela Mueller… is it at all possible to get a hold of your Audit PowerApps solution in your 5 min youtube video from August 2017? I am very interested in being able to use it to do some internal auditing in my small business to get us away from our daily paper/ manual checklist items.

  12. Hello Ashlee,

    I have looked everywhere for the solution below on your blog, please advise?

    Microsoft PowerApps in a inspection, safety check or audit scenario. It shows how pictures and audio can be captured along with checklist data, and illustrates how PowerApps can handle scenarios where there is no internet available. Finally, the app handles different types of audits within a single app, which makes it flexible for other use-cases.

  13. I am trying to build a similiar solution for the audits team. Would you help how would I get access to this app. Or understand basics to start this in PowerApp.

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