Standing with our feet in the wet sand, we know what it’s like to feel the waves embrace our ankles and then retreat, taking the sand from under us. We know how it feels to sense the joy of the water and the pull of the ocean and how safe we feel on the edge looking...
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...
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...
Hackathons have proven to be a great model for technology companies continue their innovation agenda. By tapping into internal teams and external developer communities, the problem solving capacity of an organisation can increase exponentially. Held usually outside of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Perhaps the biggest barrier to innovation in enterprise contexts is time. Coordinating the diaries of diverse teams and ensuring everyone can be accessed across distances, time zones and responsibilities can be the most challenging aspect of getting started with...
Working in a startup is like working in dog years. The accelerated learning that takes place crams seven years worth of life into the span of a single year. So that startup that you ran for three years effectively exposes you experiences that would usually take...
