by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 20, 2019 | Blog Posts, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Handbooks
New Handbook provides a guide as to how your business can survive – and thrive – through disruption. Whilst most organisations are aware that automation is occurring, only 44% of businesses believe they are adequately prepared to deal with that disruption...
by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 19, 2019 | Coders / Hackers, Future of Work, Uncategorized, Virtual reality, Women
In a recent video published by The Guardian, author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson asks: “Where are the women in the brave new world that’s being designed for us?” It’s a pertinent question in International Women’s Month, especially when we...
by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 18, 2019 | Digital Disruption, Events, Uncategorized
Over the past few weeks the Disruptors have been in the thick of events, for International Women’s Day, for startup accelerators, for small business and for the Sydney Design Festival. What’s been interesting is that without our having to orchestrate it, all events...
by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 15, 2019 | Women's History Month
Joan Ball was an online dating pioneer who created the first computer dating service in 1964. Although the credit often goes to Harvard’s ‘Operation Match’ service, Ball’s matching service was operational and in use a whole year before ‘Operation Match’ started...
by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 13, 2019 | Virtual reality
Disruptor Amelia Hanslow loses her VRginity and attempts to solve her crippling Virtual Reality sickness. I felt more than a little embarrassed: my boss at the innovation firm I’d recently started at was looking at me like I’d confessed to not knowing how to...