Simple, or easy, or complex?

Most have heard the adage ‘Simplicity is the key to success’. Interesting as it appears it is often overlooked when the pressure of business deliverables and launch expectations become critical. Quite often the terms simple versus easy become confused and the resultant consequences potentially deliver very different [...]

Five Steps to profitable innovation

Innovation is one of the hottest topics in business these days. More and more, companies are coming out with new products and services designed to amaze their customers and get them to dig deeper into their pocketbooks. [...]

Growth or rish paranoia!

Is your business a growth generator, or is it risk paranoid? Growth, is the great challenge facing many senior managers and boards, particularly since the GFC. Although, I do suspect without the supporting data that businesses leverage the outcome of the GFC and perhaps justifiably in the US and parts of [...]

Discovering innovation…

Innovate or stagnate. This is an option all businesses have, it’s all about choice. Choose to remain the same and not change, then risk a greater chance of failure, or being acquired by others. The debatable factor, is timing. [...]

Culture…defining success

Potentially the most discussed and misunderstood term in business, … culture. How often have you read, or heard leaders of Australia’s largest companies state that their greatest challenge is to change the culture of their respective organisations? How many actually achieve this? Of those who state they achieve it [...]

Commotion with emotion On-line!

In Australia today consumers are being confronted with one of the most bizarre advertising campaigns run by the retail industry. Retailers want their customers to pay more for their goods and services when purchased on-line, by requesting the government introduce a goods and service tax (G.S.T.) ! In fact, these [...]