Author: Ray Keefe

  • SEBN – South East Business Networks

    SEBN   One of the key statistics about the Australian business landscape is that we are last in the world for collaboration. All sorts of collaboration.  If you doubt this, just think about how much political collaboration you see here compared to overseas.   The video above is a series of snippets covering why SEBN is…

  • CEDA Australian Manufacturing Symposium 2016

    CEDA Manufacturing Symposium 2016 The Casey Cardinia Region was a major sponsor of this particular symposium, also know as the Manufacturing and Future Industries Forum,  and so this meeting included some region specific statistics. So here they are:   Casey Cardinia Region is headed for 650,000 people over the next 20 years Manufacturing accounts for more…

  • National Manufacturing Week 2016

    National Manufacturing Week 2016 This year we are back in Sydney at Sydney Olympic Park for National Manufacturing Week 2016.   And again we are supporting the Casey Cardinia Region. This year we are in stand 2216 which is a lot more central that 2 years ago.     So if you are thinking of…

  • Branding – what’s the big deal?

    Branding So what is Branding? Well, it is one of the most important concepts in business. Simply put, your Brand encapsulates your promise to your customers. As an engineer who was running an Electronics Design business, I was your typical eMyth technician, or in my case, Engineer. I didn’t understand that there were dimensions to…

  • Predicting the Future

    Predicting the Future How hard can it be. Surely everything follows on from everything else?   This is what was behind Sir Isaac Newton’s proposition that if we work out the equations of the universe and plug in the initial conditions, we can predict everything. And so science became the new religion of western society.…