management & leadership
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 a new methodology within an organisation. I have lived through the adoption of a number of new methodologies over the
gender & sexism
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 times more likely to believe that gender parity should be a strategic priority than men surveyed in the US
ideas
It was fascinating to take the time and think back to the days of the Y2K bug and discuss what happened (and some of the crazy hype that went on) with Paul Wallbank, Prof. John Quiggin on Radio National's Future Tense program with Antony Funnell. You can listen
ideas
We are currently planning the next Social Innovation BarCamp for 6 Nov 2010 in Sydney and I've just written a post about it called 4 Principles and 2 Laws of Social Innovation BarCamp. Thinking about the state of conferences over the past few years I have become enamoured
ideas
Burson-Marsteller has just realased a study on Message Gap Analysis where they investigate the cut through of corporate messaging to mainstream media. Their research indicates some scary results: "... a 48% gap between the messages a company communicates and the message conveyed by the media. The study also found that
ideas
Much of the digital marketing I see is a bit tragic. Tragic for the businesses who are investing hard won income into campaigns that might not deliver a return on investment. Some of it seems like self-indulgent twaddle done by creative types for their own amusement. Other times it seems
ideas
Over the years I worked as a senior manager in large organisations and, more recently, as an educator and business coach for senior managers across private and government organisations. A fascinating phenomenon that comes up in all of those places is, what I've come to call, "the
ideas
In business school we all learned to use the same analytical tools - S.W.O.T., P.E.S.T., P.E.S.T.E.L., BCG Growth Share Analysis, Competitor Analysis, Porter's 5 Forces, etc. But at dinner the other night, while chatting to some "
ideas
An interesting question came up last Friday in a discussion with a group of Marketing and Communications folks from McDonald's. It was about how social media might be situated and used differently depending upon whether you approached it from either a Marketing or a Communications team perspective. Also
ideas
It is interesting to read through the notes on this recent decision by the Federal Court of Australia. It's worth reading the entire post on Mallesons' site or even the judgement here on AUSTLII. It looks like the traditional news media are losing ground on their ambit
community
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 those smart folks over at Innovation Bay will be running another one of their angel dinners. With these dinners Innovation Bay acts as a broker between "angels" (those with money to invest or advice to give) and "entrepreneurs" those with ideas
ideas
A recent discovery for me is McKinsey & Company's new site What Matters. It is a thought provoking question and it is good to see it being tackled by McKinsey and their interesting array of authors. The things that matter change if we are considering big or small