by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 4, 2021 | Innovation, Trends
Last week I presented at the Peter Vickers Business group event, on the invitation of Denise Archie from Coaching College. I was charged with preparing an overview of innovation trends and coming up with some tools to help build business resilience. Attending were...
by Joanne Jacobs | Dec 13, 2018 | Hackathons, Trends
The Disruptor’s ‘Big List of Hackathons’ was started in 2016 as a way to record and track the hackathons happening across Australia. As 2018 is drawing to a close we thought it might be fun to have a look over the list – filled with both past...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jul 18, 2018 | Innovation, Innovation Pulse, Trends
Take part in the Innovation Pulse Survey today. Innovation isn’t a project. It’s not something that is ever finished. And for every challenge you solve with one innovation, other issues and challenges will arise. That’s normal and to be...
by Joanne Jacobs | Nov 6, 2016 | FinTech, Startups, Trends
From the outside, financial services can appear to be a behemoth – enormously slow to change direction and cumbersome when it tries to do so. But over the last decade financial services firms have come under fire from fast moving, disruptive players – the “FinTechs”...
by Joanne Jacobs | Jun 10, 2016 | Innovation, Trends
Some years ago, in the early stages of what was called “Web 2.0”, “Lynette” created a sensation by combining pithy quotes with stunning photography, combining data and research with a great and often surprising visual story. At the time – about 2008 or so – this...
by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 17, 2016 | Digital Transformation, Employee Engagement, Future of Work, Innovation, Trends
There is a reason that “innovation” is a hot topic right now, and is has nothing to do with the Prime Minister’s Innovation Statement. For decades, Australian markets have been effective duopolies – with one or two businesses dominating each segment. Look at retail....