About Farragan

Phil has spent more than fifteen years in technology leadership roles across regional Australia, with a founding pedigree in the education sector and active work today across transport, logistics, manufacturing, agribusiness and not-for-profit. Before Farragan, Phil held senior technology and operational leadership roles in the Catholic education system — including time at CEnet, the national technology service for Catholic schools — where the disciplines that became the Operational Intelligence Framework first took shape.

Phil is based in Bathurst, NSW. He works with leadership teams across regional Australia, in-person where it matters and remotely where it doesn’t.

Farragan is built deliberately small. Two named services, a tight set of supporting capabilities, and a senior-only model where the person you brief is the person doing the work. The firm is structured to stay that way — depth over breadth, longevity over scale.

We’re vertical-agnostic by design. Phil’s founding pedigree is in education, but the firm now works across a range of sectors. The Operational Intelligence Framework — Farragan’s capability and maturity framework — was built to be sector-neutral, and the work has followed.

Bathurst-based, working across regional Australia. We meet clients in person when the work calls for it — leadership meetings, governance sessions, on-site assessment interviews. We work remotely for the everything else. Most engagements blend both.

The Operational Intelligence Framework — OIF — is the methodology that underpins every Farragan engagement. Twelve domains across three pillars, scored against a five-level maturity model, applied vertical-agnostically. The framework draws on established standards — COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF and ISTE — synthesised and applied pragmatically.

It’s structured but not bureaucratic. We use it because it produces honest, defensible, leadership-ready results. It’s the thing that holds the work together across very different sectors and organisations.