Anthill Magazine
Colmar Brunton
Our clients don't work with us to better understand numbers and charts,
they work with us to better understand people and markets.
This might sound like...
Anthill’s Top Eight Dummy Spits, 2007 [VIDEO]
There are few things more embarrassing than a public dummy-spit. We all have our moments of weakness, when our blood-sugar levels get low, when...
Tame the email beast – get control, get opened, get actioned
If you’re not careful, half your day can vanish down your inbox’s throat.
A survey of almost 600 professionals showed two thirds of them spent...
Aussie expats
According to DFAT, approximately one million Australians live overseas. That’s one in 20. With so many of us having a red hot go “over...
‘The Buck Starts Here’ podcast
In the final days of September 2005, Anthill editor Paul Ryan caught up with five of Australia's leading early-stage venture capitalists. The meeting turned into a feature story. The feature story turned into a networking event, which we offered as a fly-on-the-wall audio CD. Now you can download/listen to it as a full podcast, which includes the previously unreleased Q&A session.
Marketing: Know your customers
Have you ever wondered why customers might say one thing and then behave in a totally different manner?
One of the most challenging tasks for...
Book reviews
Blink – The Power of Thinking without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, has reemerged to help us understand the...
Researching Roy Morgan
It’s a heartbreakingly common scenario — the technologist with the great idea, whose first instinct is to rush into product development without first testing...
For when the bell tolls
Profit is often assumed to be the bottom line for many entrepreneurs. But some innovations are about more than lining pockets. While most new...
Handy websites
TRENDSPOTTING
http://trendwatching.com
Brainchild of trend spotter Reinier Evers, Trendwatching.com mobilizes savvy people everywhere to scan their part of the globe for business ideas, consumer insights and...
Singapore Inc.
We may no longer refer to the economies of Asia as ‘tigers’, but Singapore (literally ‘Lion City’) is roaring like never before. For Australian...
No place like home
Working from home is the latest boom trend, made possible by rapid advancements in communications technology and the realisation by many employers (and the...
Batten down the hatches
Viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, adware, phishing, snarfing. The internet contains some pretty dark alleys and many of them intersect the most popular highways. You...
The truth is out there… and there… and there…
We only go for the really BIG ones here and they don’t come much bigger than the question of whether we are sharing the...
Strategy: How creative is your business?
Entrepreneurs and scientists use the concepts of ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ interchangeably. This is not surprising, as both play an integral role in the new...
The art of persuasion
Getting your way once is easy. It's repeating it that's hard. So how do you rate on the enchant-o-metre? We asked three pros if...
Su-Ming Wong
What makes a venture capitalist tick?
Su-Ming Wong knows.
He should.
Wong lives and breaths risk and reward. From his early days with the pioneering private equity...
Michael Raynor
What are disruptive innovations?
They’ve got to be bad, right?
Right!? Well, not if they’re yours.
When Clayton M. Christensen released his seminal book “The Innovators’ Dilemma”...
Licensing
Remuneration and the inventor
Whenever a party intends to commercially exploit technology invented by another party, the question arises as to the proper method of...
Victorian Technology Profiles Jun/Jul 05
The path from start-up to success story can be a challenging journey. These two Victorian innovators are taking the path less travelled, turning good...