Through the AI Looking Glass: AI Evolution is Faster than Thought

by Gavin Heaton | Apr 14, 2025 | 21st Century Skills, Artificial Intelligence, Future of Work, Innovation

Artificial intelligence. You’ve heard about it, seen it in action, and maybe even interacted with it today without realising it. AI technology is zipping along at such a speed that businesses and innovators are practically getting whiplash trying to keep up....

Top 50 Business Ideas to Launch in 2025 for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

by Gavin Heaton | Feb 22, 2025 | 21st Century Skills, Business Ideas, Innovation, Innovation Strategy

The business world is pulsing with new tech, greener solutions, and a global market more connected than ever, offering some of the best business ideas for aspiring entrepreneurs. Standing on the cusp of this vibrant future, you, the aspiring entrepreneur, are ready to...

Collaborative Learning: The Key to Innovation and Adaptability in Uncertain Times

by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 15, 2025 | 21st Century Skills, Best Practices, Collaborative Learning

For decades, businesses have relied on the VUCA model (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) to describe our fast-changing world. Today, all that uncertainty has only deepened. Futurist Jamais Cascio argues that a different framework, known as BANI (Brittle,...

Online Meeting Best Practices: Acknowledgement of Country

by Gavin Heaton | Jan 17, 2025 | 21st Century Skills, Best Practices, Blog Posts, Collaboration, Community Management, Online Meetings

As working from home becomes an entrenched part of our working lives, we are now turning our attention to the realities and rituals of a new way of working. This means finding personal ways to incorporate professional practices, and vice versa. It also means...

Did Today Work? Creativity and Collaboration Beyond Zoom

by Gavin Heaton | Jun 11, 2020 | 21st Century Skills, Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Social Innovation

“The faces are missing, the body language, the interactions are missing … [it means] there is no relationship in it anymore”. Students from Western Sydney University By now we have all experienced the Black Screen of Zoom – the situation where...

To build amazing solutions – start with diverse teams

by Gavin Heaton | Jun 2, 2020 | 21st Century Skills, Blog Posts, Digital Transformation, Diversity, Social Innovation, Startups, Workplace practice

No matter whether we are running a hackathon, creative program, accelerator or kick starting a new services project, we always look at the underlying structure of the teams that we are working with. Year after year we have seen the statistics that show diverse teams...