by Joanne Jacobs | Apr 18, 2016 | Hackathons, HealthTech, Innovation, Startups
Every conversation, article and blog post about disruption or innovation carries with it a subtext. And that subtext is loaded with fear. Suspicion. Trepidation. All of us – from entrepreneurs and innovators, artists, creatives, small business owners to “captains of...
by Joanne Jacobs | Apr 17, 2016 | Digital Disruption, Enterprise Disruption, Future of Work, Hackathons, Innovation
Hackathons can be gruelling events, bringing teams together over a weekend to solve challenging business, social and cultural problems. And this weekend’s PharmHack, the world’s first pharmacy hackathon, is no different. Organised by HealthClick in...
by Joanne Jacobs | Apr 5, 2016 | FinTech, Future of Work, Innovation, Startups
The StartupMuster Report for 2015 revealed that Australian startups are thinly spread across more than 20 industries, with marketing representing the largest slice at a mere 12.9%. Fintech ranked 8th at 10.7% of startups. What we are dealing with across the startup...
by Joanne Jacobs | Apr 4, 2016 | Enterprise Disruption, Innovation
Satyajit Das is one of Australia’s leading thinkers on the topic of innovation, business and globalisation. He is a former financier. He anticipated the 2008 financial crisis and has been prescient in outlining subsequent developments. In September 2014, Bloomberg...
by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 29, 2016 | Enterprise Disruption, Hackathons, Innovation, Startups
When we talk with clients about the challenges facing their industry we almost always encounter a brick wall. There are always reasons why change cannot be accommodated. Or attempted. The people in some businesses and industries still believe that digital disruption...
by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 20, 2016 | Customer Experience, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Disruption, Innovation, Startups
Some business leaders fear the word “disruption” – but other business leaders meet the word and its impact head-on. GE’s Chief Digital Officer, Ganesh Bell, is one of the latter. Over the last couple of years, Ganesh has led the digital transformation of what he calls...
