Tag: Innovation

  • CEDA – Meeting the Innovation Challenge

    CEDA and Australia’s Innovation Challenge CEDA, or the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, run regular industry sessions to discuss topics of national economic importance. The latest was a lunchtime session covering the benefits of Innovation and also some of the challenges we need to overcome to take advantage of…

  • Collaboration: New opportunities depend on it

    Collaboration So what is Collaboration? The first thing it is not is convincing someone to work for you for nothing with the vague promise you will make it worth their while in the long run.   Let’s look at a few formal definitions:   Collaboration is working with each other…

  • iAwards 2014

    iAwards The iAwards are an annual celebration of Innovation in driving economic growth in Victoria. This year we were pleased to see one of our clients, Rectifier Technologies Pacific, nominate for an award. They were encouraged to do so and I was pleased that they followed through on that encouragement.…

  • Practical Innovation

    Innovation Innovation is always a topic of interest to me. This post covers an approach to Innovation that I found helpful and was inspired by Frank Connolly of Think Quick. He is working with SEMMA as part of their Future of Manufacturing project which we are supporting.   The first…

  • Casey Business Awards 2013

    Casey Business Awards 2013 We found out in August that we were Casey Business Awards 2013 Finalists in 2 categories: Business and Professional Services Award Manufacturer of the Year   Tonight at the Casey Business Awards Gala Dinner our MC, Tracey Curro did an excellent job of running the night.…

  • Visualisation: Part 2

    The Client Perspective What you see depends on which direction you are looking from.   If you count from the top, there are 10 bars. But there are only 7 bars when you count from the bottom. In this case it is an optical illusion based on how the drawing…

  • Hour Of Power And Leadership

    Ray Keefe and Ryan Gomez discuss business, success, faith and values onthe Casey Radio Hour of Power and Leadership

  • Innovation

    What is Innovation The problem with innovation is that it is a word used all the time with the expectation that using the word somehow makes things better. A definition for innovation is a bit harder to nail down. Here are some examples.   Something new or different introduced –…

  • Prototypes Blunt Innovation

    Prototyping Prototypes are very useful. We use them all the time when developing new products. They let us try out new ideas explore how well a particular technology will work for a specific application.   One danger of a prototype, is that there is the temptation to think that you…