by Joanne Jacobs | Nov 27, 2018 | Innovation, Innovation Brand, Social Business, Startups
I can still remember the panic setting into my mind. I had been running new venture startups for PwC and had spent weeks thinking through and validating our product roadmap. Potential customers were lined up. We were chugging through the backlog and it felt like we...
by Joanne Jacobs | Nov 14, 2017 | Customer Experience, Digital Disruption, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Disruption, Future of Work, Hackathons, Innovation, Innovation Brand, Social Impact, Social Innovation
The modern language of innovation is peppered with teamwork and empathy. We talk of small, agile teams that collaborate. We talk of user centred journeys. User stories. User centred design. And more. We focus our processes around validating our business models with...
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 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 | 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 | Jun 8, 2016 | Enterprise Disruption, Hackathons, Innovation, Innovation Brand, Marketing-led Startups
Ideas are the easiest part of the innovator’s journey. But not every idea is worth its weight in gold. Even if it springs ready-formed from the musings of Elon Musk. For an idea to have any currency. For it to be investible or credible there needs to be something more...