Leadership and the Digital Revolution
Kate Carruthers I’m in Brisbane today attending the Smart Services CRC Conference. Following are slides from my presentation earlier today. Tweets from attendees are under the hashtag #smartservicescrc in case you’re curious.…
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The starship, Enterprise: social business – opportunity and risk
Enterprise 2.0 has been defined as “the application of Web 2.0 technologies to workers using network software within an organisation or business” (Dion Hinchliffe, 2006). There has been much discussion…
Living in the future: new media, new consumers, new desires
The old media model of the twentieth century was monolithic and based on a broadcast model. Large scale media players distributed a fixed series of products to a passive audience.…
Success but on whose terms? What about personal brands and character?
There is so much pressure on people these days to be successful. And I do not think we are encouraged to stop and think what success actually means for each…
Headshift event: Social Business Design – Pathways to Success on 23/11 in Sydney
The Headshift team is running a short event on the 23rd November, here in Sydney: Everyone is talking about social media, social networks, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter but not many…
The future of shopping is social
These are some thoughts that I presented at the AMP Social Media Cafe in Sydney on 11 November 2010, the slides and references follow below. The future of shopping is…
If bad is stronger than good what can we do about it?
I’ve been reading an old article that remains extremely interesting – it is an academic paper dating back to 2001 titled Bad Is Stronger Than Good. The authors note that:…
Big Banks: brands, emotion and reality
It has been fascinating to watch the consumer and media response to the recent increase of interest rates above the Reserve Bank rate by the Commonwealth Bank. Many have expressed…
The business of being agile
Recently I noted several large businesses announcing proudly they had adopted Agile development techniques – for example Suncorp, NBN Co, Allianz, Jemena. There is a pattern to the adoption of…
Gender parity in Australia
Bain & Company have just released a brief titled “Level the playing field: A call for action on gender parity in Australia”. The key findings are: Australian men are 1.4…