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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Social innovation is seen as a wonderful thing. But we are starting to see things that make us believe providing assistance to struggling communities may provide new competitive advantage for organisations struggling to innovate.

Coping with oil prices here is bad enough, but in Tanzania it is crippling. In a country where people struggle to maintain [...]

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There is a lot of gloom about at the moment. Runs on banks in the US, property prices are falling in major markets, the threat of military action in the middle east, food shortages and the ever rising price of oil. And as backdrop to all of this is the increasing threat of Climate change.
As [...]

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