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Posted onFebruary 25, 2021February 25, 2021Original post

Virtual work as an emerging export opportunity

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It is time to put our COVID-strengthened digital muscles to work to improve today’s industries and create new ones for tomorrow. Through the last decade,…

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Posted onJanuary 22, 2021January 28, 2021Original post

From process to information-driven business

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Both alchemists and investors have long searched for the elusive formula to create gold from base materials. In recent decades the base has been silicon…

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Posted onDecember 18, 2020December 23, 2020Innovation

The innovation imperative

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I had the opportunity this month to open the Australian Financial Review’s Innovation Summit. This is what I shared as the innovation imperative: Today, as…

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Posted onNovember 28, 2020December 31, 2020Original post

Working against outcome inflation

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Mobile and cloud computing has enabled remote work in a way that would have been unimaginable even a few years ago. The opportunity to add…

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Posted onOctober 29, 2020December 31, 2020Original post

Breakthrough means an army of tiny robots is coming

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A breakthrough by researchers means that one day in the not too distant future, I will likely stare out of my window as it is…

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Posted onSeptember 26, 2020December 31, 2020Original post

Timing the next breakthrough

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Not every breakthrough idea succeeds, otherwise we’d use SixDegrees.com rather than Facebook and Sinclair’s C5 would have pioneered electric vehicles. Our world is dominated by…

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Posted onAugust 25, 2020January 1, 2021Growth

Looking beyond growth

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Thomas Midgley discovered that adding lead to a vehicle’s fuel dramatically improved its performance. Unfortunately, the side effects soon became clear and Midgley, keen to…

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Posted onJuly 25, 2020December 23, 2020Innovation

Collapsing power distance to support innovation

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Nearly 15 years ago, I led a global data management team that was highly credible but had a problem. We and our competitors had data…

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Posted onJune 23, 2020January 1, 2021Original post

The digital infrastructure we really need

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It is good that our political leaders are talking about investing in large amounts of infrastructure to kick-start the economy.  However, that infrastructure needs to be…

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Posted onMay 29, 2020January 5, 2021Original post

The pandemic-driven business shifts

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The short-term impact of COVID-19 is undisputed, what is not yet clear is the long-term changes that the pandemic will have wrought on the world…

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