by Gavin Heaton | Jun 29, 2020 | Collaboration, Digital Disruption, Future of Work, Innovation
There is no doubt that COVID19 has changed the business consulting landscape. Gone are the workshops, whiteboards and post-it notes. Gone are the design thinking group activities and team building exercises like our favourite marshmallow challenge. In their place are...
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...
by Gavin Heaton | May 7, 2020 | Customer Experience, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation
No matter whether you are an internal or external consultant, project manager, board member or CEO, social distancing has brought a new degree of difficulty to the work that we do. Even with video conferencing and collaboration software bridging the physical divide,...
by Gavin Heaton | Mar 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Events, Hackathons
Note: as at MARCH 2020, most public events have been cancelled and the shift towards online meetings is underway. When it comes to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) there is a great deal of misinformation spiralling around the internet. For those of us who host public...
by Gavin Heaton | Mar 3, 2020 | Accelerator Programs, Blog Posts, Case Studies, Digital Disruption, Innovation, Social Impact, Social Innovation
One of the promises of a social impact and wellbeing focused technology accelerator like unboxd was the opportunity to not just change, but radically transform, lives. For the greater good. When we talk about technology and innovation, it can sometimes sound like...
by Gavin Heaton | Feb 4, 2020 | Data Science, Digital Transformation, Social Impact
It seems that almost everywhere we look, we find data. It’s in the tracking of our movements via our phones, it’s in what we buy, the emails we send and receive, and it’s in the social networks we use to connect with friends, families and...
by Gavin Heaton | Nov 3, 2019 | 21st Century Skills, Board Strategy, Impact, Purpose, Social Impact, Social Innovation
Over the years we have worked with a wide range of Boards. Some have worked together for significant amounts of time and have built solid, trust-based relationships internally. Others struggle to integrate new members and remain focused. At the heart of whether these...
by Gavin Heaton | Oct 27, 2019 | Agile Marketing, Customer Experience, Data Science, Digital Transformation
In the 1990s, the internet promised much, but rarely delivered. Global connectivity, a level playing field for small, medium and large enterprises alike – a democratisation of knowledge, publishing, media and commerce – and more, was on offer. The problem...
by Gavin Heaton | Oct 10, 2019 | 21st Century Skills, Future of Work
Usually when we think of the “future of work”, we think of technology. We think telepresence, remote working, virtual reality and automation. If we stretch our thinking, we also start imagining future WAYS of working too. And that’s where process,...
by Gavin Heaton | Sep 30, 2019 | Branding, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Startups
Over the last six years we have transformed our business, working with government, NGOs and corporations who want to reduce the risk of innovation failure. In this time we have run hackathons with literally thousands of hackers, hipsters, hustlers and humanitarians...
