by Joanne Jacobs | Nov 5, 2017 | Disrupt Podcast
This week’s Disrupt Podcast ‘From Start-up Side Hustle to Main Gig’ is a conversation with serial entrepreneur Jeremy LeBard. [smart_track_player url="https://traffic.libsyn.com/disrupt/JeremyLebard-Interview.mp3" title="From Startup Side Hustle to...
by Joanne Jacobs | Sep 19, 2017 | Hackathons, Innovation, Social Impact, Social Innovation
There is plenty of interest in social innovation … and while we hear a lot about it (like most forms of innovation), we see precious little in terms of action or movement. We also hear a lot about hackathons and innovation programs, yet see talent, ideas,...
by Joanne Jacobs | Sep 14, 2017 | Coders / Hackers, Data Science, Digital Disruption, Hackathons, Innovation, Social Impact
They say that “data is the new oil” – that it is becoming the world’s most valuable resource. For years, policy makers have been capturing data and using it to make decisions – that’s the concept behind the Census. More recently, businesses and social...
by Joanne Jacobs | Sep 7, 2017 | Coders / Hackers, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Hackathons, Social Impact, Social Innovation
We believe: Big challenges require less time to solve than we imagine Teams with focused expertise can create better solutions than committees Together, we have all the resources we need to build, test and scale the solutions to wicked problems The best time to start...
by Joanne Jacobs | Sep 1, 2017 | Clients, Conferences, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Disruption, Events, Future of Work, Innovation
The Siemens #Digitalize2017 Conference was held in Sydney on 30 August 2017, attracting over 400 people from across the Siemens client and partner base. The key themes included electrification – automation – digitalisation, but conversations and workshops...
by Joanne Jacobs | Aug 17, 2017 | Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Employee Engagement, Enterprise Disruption, Future of Work, Innovation, Innovation Brand
Back in 2015 I was invited to attend a secret workshop with a secret client in Denmark. Unfortunately, it was so secret, I couldn’t know who the client was. I couldn’t know where in Copenhagen I would be working. And there were no team profiles that could be shared....
by Joanne Jacobs | Jun 30, 2017 | Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation
I know what it’s like. Time is precious and deadlines are short. The KPIs that you signed up to last year loom ahead like an unscalable Everest of corporate expectation, and everywhere you look there’s an issue. A problem. Someone else not doing their job. But then,...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jun 7, 2017 | Coders / Hackers, Hackathons, Innovation, Innovation Brand, Social Innovation
Everywhere I look it seems like I see “yet another hackathon”. Each week, we add more and more events to our Big List of Hackathons in Australia page – far surpassing the number of events that were listed for the same time in 2016. Yet in conversations I have...
by Joanne Jacobs | May 1, 2017 | Conferences, Digital Transformation, Events, Future of Work, Social Impact, Women
Photo credit: @georgiecel In early March, women around the world commemorated the movement for women’s liberation and voiced their right to be in control of their lives and of the future of the world. The theme for International Women’s Day 2017 was ‘Women in...
by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 27, 2017 | FinTech, Innovation, Startups
Up until recently, I was totally convinced that the tech start-up world was closed off to the entrepreneurial elite and the tech-savvy. Having familiarised myself with the Hollywood accounts of the evolutions of Facebook and Apple, it seemed reasonable to believe...
