PharmHack, Hackathons and the Future of Prosperity
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...
PharmHack – The World’s First Pharmacy Hackathon
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...
Growing Women Founders in FinTech to 50% by 2020
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: We’re Seeing Innovative Destruction, Not Disruption
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...
Click to Accept. Stanford Says it’s Time to Disrupt Law
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...
Must-Watch Viewing for Innovators and Disruptors
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...
Making Time for Innovation
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...
The Birth of a Startup Machine: Pollenizer Turns 56
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...