One engagement, one author.
Every piece of work is led, drafted and signed by Professor Flitman. No delegation to juniors. No rotating team. The paper that reaches the Chair is the paper he wrote.
iMORSE is led by Professor Andrew Flitman. Every engagement is his.
iMORSE is a specialist management consultancy, established in 2012, working at the intersection of Australian higher education governance and international consulting.
The name is a deliberate metaphor. Morse code decodes complex signals into meaning. iMORSE does the same for governance, strategy, planning, regulation and quality assurance in higher education and research.
Clients are public and private institutions, at management, governance and ownership levels. Work is delivered from Victoria and sits across Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
Andrew Flitman is a senior consultant and academic who has operated in the gap between higher education and industry for more than two decades. Fifteen years as a university executive. Twenty-five years in consulting. A PhD in Operations Research underneath both.
In higher education, he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Swinburne University of Technology from 2007 to 2012 (including nine months as Acting Vice-Chancellor), Dean of Science and Technology at Deakin University from 2005 to 2007, and Head of Business Systems at Monash University from 2000 to 2005 — where he led the first Australian academic unit to hold ISO 9001 accreditation.
In consulting, he has held senior roles at Deloitte (UK) and PwC (Melbourne), continues as Principal Advisor to Wells Advisory (now within Minter Ellison), serves as a Subject Matter Expert on higher education for PwC, and has most recently advised Boston Consulting Group on a Saudi university engagement.
Current and recent governance roles include Chair of the Academic Board at Torrens University, Chair of the Board of the Analytics Institute of Australia, Deputy Chair of the Academic Board at ACAP University College, and board or Academic Board positions at LCI Melbourne, CG Spectrum Institute, VIT and IKON. Professor Flitman is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and the Operational Research Society, and holds Honorary Professor appointments at Torrens University and (previously) the University of Melbourne.
Consulting. Academic leadership. Governance. In that rough sequence, with overlap.
The combination is deliberate: commercial discipline against academic substance, and the regulator's ear.
The firm is deliberately small. That shapes everything about how engagements run.
Every piece of work is led, drafted and signed by Professor Flitman. No delegation to juniors. No rotating team. The paper that reaches the Chair is the paper he wrote.
Analysis is quantitative where the question is quantitative, and narrative where it is not. The method is disclosed. Charts and tables earn their place or do not appear.
Findings, options, a recommendation, and the next step. One or two-page executive summary. No repetition across sections. A Chair can read it in ten minutes.
If iMORSE has the right shape for the question, you will know after one conversation.