I am producing the AdBioFab conference again. It will be at the Sydney Business School on December 18th. If you are interested in attending visit the AdBioFab website to find out more or to register. If you are a regular reader of this blog and want a complimentary pass for the conference add a comment […]
Last Friday I gave a brief presentation on scenario planning, to the research groupthat I consult to. One of the things that came out of that all too brief session was that there is a very real lack of understanding of interdependency of nations and of industries in a globalized economy. It is remarkable how […]
In the next month in Sydney there will be a lot of attention on connectivity. First there is the XMediaLab conference and the accompanying workshops to be held at the Sydney Opera House. Then there is a much smaller event to be held at the Sydney Business School – Hyperconnected. Both of them are working […]
One of the most difficult things to do these days is to focus. There are so many distractions vying for our time, and while we may think that we can multitask, parallel process, and generally do everything, the reality is that we still live our lives in a linear way and to achieve great things […]
I was at a conference yesterday in the nearby town of Nowra. It was put on by and for local business people. As the organizer, Linda, said to me, its the kind of event that when times are tough, small business people should participate in and attend. I talked about disruptive technologies and how they […]
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 […]
I am in Geelong today. I had to give a brief talk at a breakfast forum of scientists and business people yesterday morning which was a follow on from a previous event in Melbourne. It was hosted by Deakin University and built on feedback from the last business forum breakfast event that the Centre of […]
You would think that it might be reasonable to assume that good companies aspire to provide great customer service, wouldn’t you. Some companies establish customer service as their primary goal. The bigger the company, the more the focus on the customer, in my view. But how much do we, as customers, help them to achieve […]
It looks like it is going to be a big year. This year I will be back at University Of Wollongong teaching in the Arts Faculty – the same subject as last semester, ARTS301. I had tremendous feedback last semester from students. The subject is really about helping those about to graduate to understand how […]
Digital technology empowers and it destroys. As the legacy silos entrench themselves and become more polar in their approach the silos start to crumble. It happens in business and more of that later. As is incredibly visible right now, it happens in politics. Sometimes those silos are not really about the leader or the policy […]