Isn’t it amazing that in a world in which so many things are so obvious, so many people keep on ignoring the signs. When there is so much momentum for change so many people keep thinking “same”. Steve Jobs had a great instinct for the signals of change and the way that one mans infrastructure [...]
Last weekend my wife and were guests with a friend who is a barrister, and on the way to becoming a judge, all being well. We were talking about the mobile devices that we each had. He does not have one. No iPhone, no iPad, no Blackberry – not even a good old fashioned mobile [...]
This is not really a story about marketing. However it is something that you might want to know and to think about if you like food. We eat quite a bit of fish in our household. I normally buy fish at a little hole in the wall fish shop in Kiama. The shop is tiny. [...]
We all exist in networks of people. Before the industrial revolution they were close knit and very local. Fast forward through the industrial revolution and the ability to travel far and fast and into the digital era and we all have complex and vast networks of connections. All of those connections have influence on our [...]
If you are completing your degree at university and going into the work force it can be a daunting challenge – if you choose to allow that. It is natural to feel some trepidation about going into a new and seemingly foreign environment. However, if you look at the data, which is always a good [...]
So someone calls you up and says that they want to buy your company. You take a deep breath and then say, let’s talk… There are a lot of wrinkles in selling your business. The main one is that most people are so unused to the concept that they stumble at the first fence…. Imagine [...]
I’ve been at a conference on the Gold Coast of Queensland for the last two days on the commercialization of Intellectual Property. Last night I got talking to a young PhD student who is trying to figure out what to do with his life. He registered for the conference because he is looking for a [...]
Amazing isn't it. We are a week in to a new Prime Minister. We are perhaps only days away from a Federal Election being announced. The probability is that there will be a deal done with the miners over the super profits tax before an election is announced… Why else would you announce an election, [...]
We are living in a constantly changing world. More of those changes are taking place than we have ever experience before, and for some reason people are shocked by much of the change. But we shouldn't be. Much of what is taking place should not really be surprising, because it is largely predictable. All this [...]
Can’t be done say the experts. Well what if a company was going to build out a 1 GB per second internet backbone that would allow you to do so? Google yesterday announced their intention to do just that. On their Blog at Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network they [...]