Every organisation covets internal innovation, but very few usher creative sparks through to commercial success with any kind of reliable consistency. Amnon Levav, Managing Director of the groundbreaking Israeli company Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), has helped some of the world’s top brands to systematise innovation – from brainstorming to commercial execution. This month he travels…
Every organisation covets internal innovation, but very few usher creative sparks through to commercial success with any kind of reliable consistency. Amnon Levav, Managing Director of the groundbreaking Israeli company Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), has helped some of the world’s top brands to systematise innovation – from brainstorming to commercial execution. This month he travels…
Networkers of the world, it’s time to score – big time. The oh-so seductive Ben Angel applies the laws of dating to art of business courtship and reveals that it’s more hands-on than you think. If you’re anything like me, world domination is high on your priority list. But just how do you expand your…
Advertising firms could be forgiven for feeling under siege. After all, it’s tough to get your message through in a world of broadband internet, cable TV, DVD and time-shifting TiVos, with clients demanding ever deeper brand impact with the lucrative but fickle Generations X and Y. However, with all these competing tensions, it’s easy to…
It’s tough to change the world from inside a middle-management corporate cubicle. So Cameron Reilly dropped out and tuned in, creating the world’s first podcast network. Having turned down venture funding, the only thing that Reilly wants to lend is your ears.
ROTASOLE MARCHES ON Rotasole CEO- Brian Goldberg In issue 14 we brought you the story of Melbourne sports medic Dr Jack Goldberg and his revolutionary new sports shoe, the Rotasole. With three sporty kids, Dr Goldberg found himself regularly treating knee and ankle sprains suffered on the footy field and netball court. Fed up, he…
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If there is one word that scares entrepreneurs and businesspeople alike, it’s the “B” word – bankruptcy. For the individual concerned, it means the loss of assets and a significant impact on their ability to obtain credit, travel overseas or manage a corporation during the bankruptcy period, which normally lasts three years. For a creditor,…
It is true that the best way to get someone to do anything is to make them want to do it. The quickest way to do this is to find out what they want, and then make it clearly available to them. Be sure to discard any illusions you may hold about your target market…
THE LEADERSHIP THING Geoff Mulray Last issue we talked about organisational climate – the environment your people operate and exist in – and its capacity to profoundly impact the bottom line. This issue we explore the single biggest factor affecting climate: leadership. For years, organisations have looked for ways to increase a leader’s effectiveness and…
We don’t need to be revolutionaries to have a successful business. We could do something simple, like open a shop. But if we wanted to be ordinary, wouldn’t we be better off in a job somewhere? What if we truly want to change the world or be the next sell out story to some corporate…
Once upon a time, far, far away… Everyone loves a good story. Perhaps it starts back in childhood, with fairy-tales told over and over again by loving parents just before bedtime. Or maybe it’s the influence of the media broadcasting emotional stories of the day’s events while we’re eating our dinner. One thing is for…
Mastering time management and priority setting processes are fundamental to achieving personal and business productivity. These skills are even more crucial in start-up environments, where management is regularly confronted with conflicting demand for their time and attention. At the commencement of any large undertaking, it is rare that there will be a logical or apparent…
THE POWER OF NICE By Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval ALLEN & UNWIN, 2007, 127p, RRP: $19.95 The Power of Nice is a simple reminder that a little kindness costs nothing and can pay rather handsome dividends. The authors, Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, have made their way to the top of the…
Collaboration is one of the cornerstones of the internet’s current commercial renaissance. But have we really been pushing the envelope? What passes for collaboration on today’s most popular social networking sites and blogs is actually quite static, more reminiscent of a game of tennis than any form of symphony. A Perth-based web startup (yet another…
BACK-ISSUE BULL-ANTS Web 2.0 pay day You might remember our coverage in issue 19 (Dec’06/Jan’07) of Australian web entrepreneurs Nick McNaughton and Yorke Hinds, whose slick email marketing application for blogs, Zookoda, was up for sale. In April, Zookoda was acquired by US marketing company PayPerPost for an undisclosed sum (although McNaughton has…
It’s time to reach beyond the wayward solitary invention of a wayward solitary inventor to embrace an entire conceptual school of wayward invention: the artful Japanese science of Chindogu.
Illustration: Jonathan Towers There is an old expression that says, “Necessity is the mother of invention”. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Necessity does not drive invention. Rather, new inventions come along and mess up everyone’s life. Take ice. Ice was once a fantastic business. Perhaps you are old enough to remember…
‘Social intelligence’ is bringing order to the chaos of the world wide web. As Liesl Capper reveals, there’s something in it for both users and brands. If you could use only one term to describe the internet, even after almost 20 years of rapid development, you could do a lot worse than ‘social anarchy’….
If your company was human, what kind of person would it be? Would you choose it as a friend? Want it beside you in the trenches? Carmen Parnos on the importance of company culture. A friend of mine recounted recently how he applied for a job some years back with a well-known international oil…
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