Innovation Score Card

July 14, 2011

Australia dropping 3 places in the global innovation rankings despite plenty of activity. From 18 down to 21st. http://www.globalinnovationindex.org/gii/    

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CIO Summit Australia

April 17, 2011

If there is one area of business that is forever surging forwards, it’s that of Information Technology. I was recently contracted to be MC and Facilitator at a Summit of Chief Information Officers from some of Australia’s largest companies. Organised by GDS International and held at the Sheraton Mirage on the Gold Coast, it was [...]

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Oil & Gas Summit Australia

March 18, 2011

With the resources sector continuing to run hot, it’s interesting to see who else is benifiting from these boom times. I was thrilled to be asked to be MC at a recent Oil & Gas Summit, held at the Marriot Gold Coast and got to meet many who are supply innovative products and services to [...]

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Motivation Handbook

August 6, 2009

How Motivated are You? Innovative new book from Leo Babauta called The Essential Motivation Handbook. I’m only half way through it myself but really enjoying it.  Priced under $10. Check it out via http://www.timothyhyde.com/resources.html

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The Post It as entertainment

May 12, 2009

Trust me, this is fun. From one of my favourite sites/blogs on innovation. http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/2009/05/post_29.shtml

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Four ways to spur Innovation at your Company

May 5, 2009

Interesting article from Harvard Business Publishing from an example from SAP. The Four Methods they used to tackle a certain challenge were.. 1. Re-frame the institutional challenge and opportunity. 2. Identify and mobilize passionate individuals. 3. Re-orient institutional activities. 4. Embrace new forms of information technology. Full article here – http://tinyurl.com/c2bjl6

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Where is the Internet Heading?

April 3, 2009

If you ignore the pitch to the internet marketing course at the end this latest Blog Post from Randy gage is a very interesting read. http://tinyurl.com/cunlah

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Miniature Earth

April 2, 2009

An interesting follow up to yesterdays Survey of Innovation around the World is this. I saw a version about 10 years ago, but it’s now been strengthened with a Visual Display. Similar to the Shift Happens powerpoint show. http://www.miniature-earth.com/me_english.htm

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Worldwide Innovation Scorecard

March 31, 2009

OK, this came out last year but it’s an interesting survey. I’ll hunt up and see if there is an updated version. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany and UK are the most innovative EU countries and ahead of the US The yearly European Innovation Scoreboard has added Australia to it’s benchmarking this year so I [...]

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Sleight of Mind – Kick Start Your creativity

March 30, 2009

The reviews are starting to come in for Sleight of Mind – Kick Start your Creativity Here’s what New Zealand’s most prolific author, Richard Webster, said after he completed the 7 Steps “I loved “Sleight of Mind!  I’m in the idea business, and this is by far the best idea generator I’ve found. I did [...]

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