by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 22, 2017 | Creativity, Digital Disruption, Innovation, Marketing
When we think about innovation, we often think about uniqueness. The one-of-a-kind invention that leaves everyone speechless. But the history of innovation teaches us that uniqueness is more accident than design. And channeling Anne of Green Gables, business teaches...
by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 5, 2017 | Digital Disruption, Innovation, Social Impact, Startups
A few weeks ago I watched this YouTube video of a younger, Jack Ma, presenting in a non-descript room to a few colleagues. The presentation was from a time before Alibaba became the global ecommerce powerhouse that it is today. It was 1999 and Ma was setting a vision...
by Joanne Jacobs | Dec 12, 2016 | Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation Brand
After a busy year of innovation, what is your one big lesson that you’d like to share? Let us know, at the form below. (function(){var...
by Joanne Jacobs | Nov 16, 2016 | Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Innovation, Social Innovation
The challenge is service transformation. Not website redesign The last couple of years has seen a shift in direction for public services and their approach to digital transformation. Innovating in government, however, takes more than snappy tag lines and slogans. It...
by Joanne Jacobs | Nov 15, 2016 | Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Innovation
While Disruptor’s Handbook is an Australian company, we operate in a global market, and thus it is timely to consider the impact of President-elect Trump on the issue of disruption and innovation generally. Several commentators have already examined the innovation...
by Joanne Jacobs | Nov 8, 2016 | Events, Hackathons, Social Impact, Social Innovation
In almost any field of endeavour, leaders and innovators are constantly grappling with notions of “the future” and rapidly creating new pathways for current and future generations to perceive, grasp and take advantage of opportunities. But in almost every...
by Joanne Jacobs | Nov 6, 2016 | FinTech, Startups, Trends
From the outside, financial services can appear to be a behemoth – enormously slow to change direction and cumbersome when it tries to do so. But over the last decade financial services firms have come under fire from fast moving, disruptive players – the “FinTechs”...
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...
