Insights

How Innovation can disrupt your Market and Competitors

At present, many organisations face uncertain and often turbulent conditions. Advantages of economies of scale has been overtaken by newer, faster, technologies; social networks have eroded the advantage of better market knowledge; and superior products have been copied through the ravages of hyper competition. In short, growth […]

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Driving innovation and growth

Whether your organisation is operating in a new or existing market, competitive advantage is always key to achieving growth. Such a competitive advantage is predicated on difference, which can sometimes be hard to attain. Innovation is the driving force behind this difference, and as the leader of […]

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Organisations don’t have one culture

Many leaders set out to develop a “one culture” organisation, in the belief that this will unite them and make them more effective. But a unitary culture is usually not possible – and can be quite detrimental to the performance of the organisation. Listen to how you can create […]

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Does (management) education teach you anything?

It’s become quite fashionable these days to criticize the value of our education system. And I don’t mean the criticism focused on lifting Australian educational standards to match international best practice. This is necessary if we want to retain our place as a truly competitive nation. No, […]

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There’s no future in predicting the future

The new normal The term “new normal” has been coined to describe this period of incessant change and uncertainty. It explains that we have a set of new dynamics in the ever-changing global economy. As such, our conventional planning approaches are no longer effective. Why? Because they […]

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