Disruptor’s Handbook is excited to be an innovation partner of the NSW Department of Education in the 2019 Incubation stream Catalyst Lab Innovation Program. The objective is to develop, test and scale ideas from teachers that will improve education experience and...
Last night, Disruptor’s held a roundtable on the topic of entrepreneurship with participants from the public, private and not-for-profit sector. We discussed the following topics. What does it take to bring new ideas, products, and ways of working into a...
When friend to Disruptors, Joan Westenberg, said she was developing an open source transgender policy for tech companies in Australia, there was not even a moment of hesitation from us. Of course we would adopt it, because inclusion is something we support as a basic...
In our last blog post we listed out extraordinary intrapreneurs who created extraordinary products inside of organisations. So the next question is really, how does one become an intrapreneur? What kinds of skills, tools or things does an intrapreneur need? And where...
A few weeks ago, I found an old box full of papers. I had actually forgotten what was in there – but as I opened it, memories came flooding back. There were photos, letters and even poems written dozens of years ago. In amongst the yellowing pages, something...
So you’ve heard of the ‘entrepreneurs’, but what about ‘intrapreneurs’? The term ‘intrapreneur’ was first coined in the 1980s when author Gifford Pinchot defined it in his book Intrapreneuring: Why You Don’t Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur, as...
“Build it and they will come”, is the underlying message of almost every startup founder’s pitch. But with the stark reality of 90%+ startups failing in the first three years, it’s clear that even if you build the most beautiful, functional, user-centred “it”, they...
Prioritise this before you need to think hard: You had to have laughed (or I’ll be suspicious you’re not human), and when you did you sparked up your brain in the best way possible to start a working day. For innovative solutions laughter is invaluable –...
Homelessness in Australia, and New South Wales more specifically, are increasing. What is alarming is the way that young people are disproportionately represented in these statistics. Between 2006 and 2016, homelessness among 19-24 years olds in New South Wales...
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was an American nun, educator and pioneer in computer science. She was involved in the development of the BASIC computer programming language and was the first American woman to earn a PhD in computer science. Keller entered the Sisters of...
