What This Blog Is About
BadCompost explores how work actually gets designed, improved, and executed. It’s about process. It’s about workflow. It’s about the intersection of strategy, systems, and the people who work within them.
Most of the time, when things go wrong operationally, it’s not because people are broken. It’s because systems are broken. This blog is about fixing the systems.
Right now, a lot of that conversation centres on AI and how it’s reshaping workflows. But the core focus remains the same: understanding how work flows, where friction lives, how to design better processes, and how to implement change in a way that actually sticks.
The Real Questions I Explore
- How do you design processes that work for the people doing the work, not just on paper?
- Where does technology (including AI) genuinely add value, and where does it create more problems?
- How do you improve operations in resource-constrained environments where every decision matters?
- What does sustainable change actually look like, and why do so many improvement initiatives fail?
- How do you think strategically about automation, workflow redesign, and organisational capability?
Why This Matters
Process and workflow design sit at the heart of everything. Get this right, and you unlock efficiency, resilience, and the space for people to do their best work. Get it wrong, and you’re throwing money and effort at symptoms, not causes.
Who This Is For
- Business leaders and decision-makers trying to improve how their organisations actually work
- Operations and process professionals wrestling with continuous improvement, automation, and change
- Anyone trying to understand how technology (including AI) fits into real operational strategy
Let’s Talk
This blog is a conversation. If you’re thinking about these problems, if you’ve got a different take, or if you want to challenge something here then connect on LinkedIn, contribute to the discussion, or get in touch. The best thinking happens when people doing the work share what they’re seeing.
Oh, and why “Bad Compost”? Well, compost with peat in it is bad for the environment, and this blog has a lot of Pete in it. Yes, I know compost is fundamentally a pile of rotten detritus, but I’ll let you be the judge of where to draw the line on the analogy.