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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Climate Change is a massive economic opportunity. While conservatives will rail against the need to recognise and address the challenges of climate change, innovators will recognise the $300b annual cost as one of the great opportunities of our lifetime.

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Alzheimers is a very real and human tragedy that robs people not only of their the identify but also their sense of purpose and place in the world. Dealing with Alzheimers patients is even more difficult.
One of the recurring issues with Alzheimers patients is the development of episodes where the patient has a sudden and urgent need ‘to get home’. [...]

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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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Scott Berkun in his recent HBR blog comments on the overuse of the word innovation and how it is not only used and abused but is often misleading. He suggests that instead of saying “How can we be innovative?”, a toothless and vague question with mostly useless answers, we should be asking “How can we [...]

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In his recent blog Anthill editor James Tuckerman touches on a topic we whole heartedly agree with!
There is an urgent need to actually focus on understanding the customers need first and validate the bejesus out of that, before anyone spends any more on stuff that no one wants. What is needed is a total market [...]

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When you talk to people about innovation, the conversation has a habit of always drifting to ideas, developing ideas and the search for the ‘big idea’. The idea that will make them rich, bust up the competition and rearrange the market as we know it.
Within many of the large corporates ‘innovation’ invariably ends up [...]

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