Innovation
Branding, customer service and how to handle challenges in business; an interview with Emanuel Perdis
Emanuel Perdis is the dynamic Managing Director and co-founder of Napoleon Perdis Cosmetics. He has overseen and implemented double-digit business growth for the brand, every year, for the past fourteen years, turning over $80 million a year, employing a team of almost 500 staff. In this Q&A Interview with Alex Pirouz, Perdis shares what it takes to create a global brand, why customer service has been a crucial part of the organisation’s success and the best way to handle challenges in business.
Innovation is a noun (and seven other awesome lessons from TEDxMelbourne)
Innovation is a noun. This seems to have been forgotten. Innovation; such a buzz word at the moment, everyone is “doing it.” Trouble is, you don’t “do” innovation; innovation is the result of what you do.
Qumpit: online queuing, with benefits
Some things in life need to be spelled out very simply before they have any impact. Like learning how to say the name of new business ‘Qumpit,’ a digital startup that aims to provide a physical queuing experience online.
Opportunity Capture: is it just for the big boys?
Imagine your company sold just one sole product and yet managed to be successfulin a competitive market. It’s a true story! How can you pull ahead and dominate your competitors? For starters, look at opportunity capture: accept that there is no product, process or service in the world that cannot in some way be innovated.
How to blow up the cubicle culture and start gamestorming your creativity
Dave Gray, co-author of “Gamestorming,” the 2010 book about collaboration for innovators, says the cubicle layout of your average business office is great for efficiency, but the worst possible design for creativity. In this video, Gray lays out the basics of gamestorming. It’s worth a look for anyone hoping to spawn the Next Big Thing.
Tech23 winners 2011 revealed
Participants fought for 23 display spots and a total of $150,000 in cash prizes at Tech23 held at The Auditorium at Surry Hills in Sydney last month. Startup companies pitched their innovation ideas to 400 potential investors, mentors, entrepreneurs and more.
Australia ranks high on innovation but low on the environment, says OECD report
Australia’s bid to foster innovation and measure its progress is a laudable one. Its candour even more so, because rare is the government that shines a light on its darker areas. The Australian Innovation System Report – the second since the nation officially hitched its bandwagon to the one thing that is most likely to make a difference in how we live – is short on data, especially latest international numbers to compare progress. But what it lacks in numbers, it makes up with honesty on at least two critical areas of shortfall.
The Global Acceleration Program invites innovative companies to an Acceleration Workshop in China
Pyksis and ANZA Technology Network recently partnered to create a program inviting companies considering Chinese export markets to bring their genius ideas to the table. The Global Acceleration Program (GAP) is a new program that aims to accelerate North American and Chinese market access for Victorian companies. Interested? Up to five positions can be filled per cohort, with one going to the USA and one to China.
Digital content competition MEGA Pitch Day announces its winners; Odd Games wins big
Digital content organization, MEGA, has announced the winners of their recent Pitch Day competition for smartphone app ideas.
Register your genius innovation ideas now for the April 2012 LES International Annual Conference
Held in New Zealand, the LES International Annual Conference invites professionals and entrepreneurs to bring world innovation ideas to the table.
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