When I am really sick, I see a Doctor. Why? Because they are trained to assess the symptoms/data/evidence I present with. In essence I trust that they know what they are doing.
This trust is based on my understanding that through a unique and powerful combination of training, education and experience they are able to assess the data and from [...]

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Web3.0 has arrived

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The following piece appeared in September 28th edition of Bioshares #330, Australia’s leading analysis and commentary on the Biotech sector. It summarises our out take on the 2009 Bioshares conference held at Thredbo in September.

Don’t worry about your Technology, show me the Strategy

The 2009 Thredbo summit graphically illustrated why strategy is becoming increasingly more valuable [...]

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We presented recently (June 15th &16th) at the Australian Medical Technology conference held in Sydney. The conference brought together some of the regions leading firms and discussed a wide range of issues.
I was fortunate to present, in conjunction with David James from Invetech and Travis Hardy from ARRK on Design for Manufacturing and how many [...]

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It would seem that the Australian Federal Government is still under intense pressure to follow the tired and hopeless old formula to solving the hospital bed crisis. The Australian Medical Association is pressuring the Government to “immediately spend at least $3 billion on 3,750 new public hospital beds and the staff and infrastructure to service [...]

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Like Wow, Wipeout!

The classic Australian rock group Hoodoo Guru’s song from the mid 80’s pretty much captures the nature of the current financial crisis. As a result of this mayhem there is now little doubt that we are about to enter a major down turn. How far down, no one really knows. But what [...]

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There has been a lot of press about the commodity boom and how it’s the saving grace for the Australian economy. And for the vast majority of people out there, the rising prices of ‘commodities’ can often seem a nebulous and intangible issue - an issue that grabs a few seconds in the business section [...]

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Karl Treacher in a blog at Marketingmag.com.au raises one of our favourite topics. The Mother energy drink. In the blog he comments that, unlike what occurs in the latest TVC, which shows those responsible for the taste being terminated by a SWAT team, the CEO should be terminating the marketing team.
However, I think the [...]

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I had an interesting discussion today with a colleague on the plight of the financial services industry. He was of the opinion, and we were talking about retail consumer finance, that the market was mature and as a result, there wasn’t much opportunity for new growth.
“How many more credit cards do people really need?” he [...]

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