by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 27, 2016 | Future of Work, Innovation, Startups
Every corporation, no matter at what stage of the corporation’s development, requires regular evaluations of corporate objectives and applied insight into making advantageous strategic decisions. The makeup of boards can either make or break the corporation’s...
by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 26, 2016 | Events, Innovation
Continuing on from the success of last year’s Startup Week Sydney, the Spark Festival is a collection of events focused on reinvigorating the Sydney innovation community. Over nine days, there will be a series of meetups, hackathons, workshops, panels and more that...
by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 19, 2016 | Coders / Hackers, Digital Disruption, Innovation, Social Impact, Social Innovation
Social innovation can refer to a range of different developments, ideas and solutions that strengthen human society. Thinkable and Hitachi have teamed up to award $15k in seed funding for ideas within the categories of Smart Cities, Connected Health, Mining and Smart...
by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 18, 2016 | Future of Work, Hackathons, Innovation
By any measure, the number of people seeking refuge around the world has reached crisis proportions. Locally, those who are able to successfully navigate the complex requirements to gain refugee status in Australia, struggle to gain a foothold in a foreign land....
by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
Photo credit: Stephen Cooper Last week I attended the first-ever ‘Wednesday Evenings short talks’ at the Vibewire Common Room. Pioneering the weekly events was futurist, trend spotter and keynote speaker Tim Longhurst who spoke to us about his experiences...
by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 3, 2016 | Future of Work, Innovation, Marketing-led Startups, Startups
When I first started building businesses for companies, it was an expensive and time consuming enterprise. We’d need to think through and plan for every aspect of a creating a large scale business even though we’d always start small. After all, this was an investment...
by Joanne Jacobs | Sep 15, 2016 | Hackathons, News
Hackathons are the perfect events to connect business with innovators, designers with developers, and ideas with production. Building on the momentum established with our last collaboration with Qantas, this year’s Qantas Codeshare Hackathon offered no less...
by Joanne Jacobs | Aug 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
This week in my classes at UTS, I put up this quote in a lecture on Agile Methodologies and Lean Thinking: As our companies turn into highly focused software organizations, we must change the way we manage them. A continuous learning environment fueled by...
by Joanne Jacobs | Aug 24, 2016 | Hackathons
From healthcare and healthtech to fitness, wearables, lifestyle, convenience and treatment, the opportunities for startups to transform the global (and local) healthcare industries is significant. Just think back to 1999-2000 genome sequencing project – where a 15...
by Joanne Jacobs | Aug 20, 2016 | Hackathons, HealthTech, Innovation
When we think of innovation and technology, we often think of Google. Or Facebook. Locally, in Australia, we may think of some of the more successful startups – Atlassian, Canva or Campaign Monitor, but rarely do we think of more traditional industries such as health...
