Creativity
How to Prototype: The Awesome Guide
Thursday, January 15th, 2009This is a guest post from Lindsay Gordon, prototyping genious from South East Water. Lindsay attended Olin College in Massachusetts, got a degree in engineering and most importantly, got taught by IDEO. She now works here at South East Water’s Recycled Water program and helps me be inspired through her ideas about how to Prototype. If you want […]
Connectivity to solve poverty: How would you connect?
Thursday, October 16th, 2008As I sit at home, exhausted after a huge last week and begin (finally) preparing my post for Blog Action Day, I have been contemplating a comment sent to me by my dear friend, Melina Chan recently. Melina is current located in Cambodia, working on an AYAD program around micro-finance lending and community development to […]
5 key steps to good innovation - lessons from Start Up Camp Melbourne
Sunday, October 5th, 2008I write this from a laundromat in St Kilda, extremely fatigued and keen to hit the hay after the enormous weekend that was #SUCM (or, Start Up Camp Melbourne). The event was based around a simple idea I love - get together with a great group of people, many of whom were strangers or simply […]
Blue Oceans for dummies
Monday, July 7th, 2008One of the most popular tools in my armament for innovation is the under-utilised Blue Ocean Strategy concept. Because the concept is also a book, most of the stuff you find on the internet only pushes more people to buy a copy rather than how to actually use the ideas encapsulated therein. So, because I reckon […]
Mindfullness in Opportunity Evaluation
Sunday, February 10th, 2008I was given this fantastic article by dad today - It’s a Harvard Business Review piece written by Paul Saffo about how to make effective forecasts. The article reads fantastically well (you know how much I appreciate good writing) and is easy to remember and learn from due to the nature of Saffo’s explanations. Very […]
Pixar - 20 years of animation
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007Today, I finally got the chance to visit the Guggenhiem and Pixar, 20 Years of Animation, exhibits at NGV and Fed Square. The Guggenhiem was fantastic, and well worth a visit if you get the chance before it ships of-shore again on the 7th of October…but the real gold was to be found at the […]
Micro Sites - some thoughts on new media and blogging
Friday, September 21st, 2007Not to long ago, I had the priveledge to hear Nick Cummins from the Sputnick Advertsing Agency about social media and the new ways they are generating word of mouth excitment around people’s brands. (eg, like this) It came to mind today as I was in a meeting earlier in the morning about how we […]
Creative Cities and States - what breeds creativity
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007Those of you following me on Twitter would know that for the past week or so I have been thinking and doing ‘creative stuffs’. In an effort to take down the magic curtain of cryptic messages, I’m taking part in the Creative Victoria Challenge at the moment, which is giving me a mind-full of […]