Anthill Magazine
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ant Bytes — AA10
Bill Delves is a partner with Ernst & Young and head of the firms Emerging Growth Markets Group. He is also national leader of...
Kings of cool
What's better than creating a successful business? Doing it with style!
Most companies are content to provide a useful product or service. But for a...
Surf wars
The future of the information age is up for grabs and the darlings of the new, new economy are jostling for position. Since Google’s...
Website reviews
Ohmynews.com
Oh Yeon Ho, president and founder of South Korean website OhmyNews.com, believes there is a journalist in every one of us.
OhmyNews covers stories from...
Book reviews
Leadership revelations – an Australian perspective
By Avril Henry CCH Australia Limited, 2005
It is an eclectic mix that business strategist and HR consultant Avril Henry...
Marketing: The write stuff
With emails filling our inboxes every day, why not try the traditional business letter to attract the attention of your reader?
One of the most...