Tag: Innovation

  • CEDA – Meeting the Innovation Challenge

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    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 Innovation in Australia.    …

  • Collaboration: New opportunities depend on it

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    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 to do a task and…

  • iAwards 2014

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    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.   iAwards Winners 2014 The…

  • Practical Innovation

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    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 thing that always comes up…

  • Casey Business Awards 2013

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    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. And we were thoroughly entertained…