We have commented previously that the impact of technology and innovation often has unintended consequences. Often these consequences can result in entire paradigm shifts. Shifts that can disrupt and potentially wreck well etsablished exiting business models. Indeed histroy is littered with companies that simply “didn’t see it coming”.
The iphone is having such an impact. Not just in the consumer area, [...]

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Way, way back in the pre GFC world (2008) we blogged about the impending revolution that 3D printers will unleash on commerce.
3D printers provide a revolutionary way of bringing products to market and promise to totally revolutionise working capital requirements. If included in a product development process, it has the potential to remove a wide range of both capex [...]

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Have you ever wondered how easy it would be if you could pay with your credit card anywhere, at any time?
Hmmm, nice idea, but the problem has always been a lack of terminals. After all, not many garage sales have their own EFTPOS terminal, right?
WRONG! Silicon Valley based start up firm Square have busted this [...]

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For some time we have heard media, political opposition parties and lobby and community groups complain about the hospital bed crisis.
Put simply, there are not enough Hospital beds for those patients who need them.
However,  the solution that is often put forward - building new hospitals, commissioning new wards, creating new beds is not the answer.
In [...]

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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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An article by John Davidson from Australian Financial Review last year laments the somewhat surprising decline in sales of compact digital cameras, with both volume and value in 2006 down from 2005 figures. And GfK researcher Derek Nash believes it is a maturing market with 7 million cameras across Australia and many people on to [...]

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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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As the baby boomers reach retirement age one of the more obvious beneficiaries is the travel and tourism industry. Recent reports would indicate that Australians are travelling overseas in increasing numbers. So with all these people on the move, travel health has become an increasingly important issue for businesses in this industry.
One of the [...]

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