Addressing Business Frustrations can add Value to Your Business
Effective business people only worry about things that they can change. They ignore frustrations that they have no facility, resources or capability to fix. 23 years of experience in operating my own...
View ArticleIf Everything is Free Who’s Able to Pay for Lunch?
“Copyright is dead, it’s an outmoded concept destroyed by students all over the world who refuse to pay for any digital content, especially music” opined the Professor. He continued his argument...
View ArticleBeyond Broadband an Essential Investment for Our Future
Broadband delivers essential services making it fundamental infrastructure for any modern society. It is not the feeds and speed that is critical but the applications that deliver value. It is the...
View ArticleSet Direction Align Actions to Goals
Engage your staff to align their every day tasks to company goals Since I sold my business in 2007 I have worked with a number of talented entrepreneurs to rapidly grow their businesses. I’ve enjoyed...
View ArticleIncreasing Business Value in Business Planning
To increase the value of the business, business planning must influence everyday activities so that all activities are aligned with the company goals. Critically these activities have to produce the...
View ArticleCompany Boards that Create Value
The value that a board can bring a small to medium sized company is to: assess the context and environment within which the company operates provide independent evaluation of management access to...
View ArticleSmall Business Boards: Practice Vs Theory
The public and private feedback to my last post lamented that the real world does not usually align with my description of how boards should operate. But others like Dan Stojanovich opined that...
View ArticleStop Being a Bully Mr Demetriou
Sorry Mr Demetriou there is no such thing as a simple change to copyright laws our copyright law is broken and needs to be fixed properly to reward creation and innovation in a digital world where...
View ArticleMany IT projects fail to deliver the benefits identified in the business...
Is poor governance the issue and if so what must be done to fix the problem? What is the problem? Complex IT projects usually have a well-documented business case before any organisation will allocate...
View ArticleCopyright must address modern ways of working, learning and living
Last Friday’s decision of the full bench of the Federal Court must be appealed to the High Court and the High Court should over turn this poor decision. I established one of the first multimedia...
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Altruism in the Digital Age The distinguishing feature of the digital age is the connection of people and things driven by the ubiquitous nature of the Internet. The Internet is connecting billions of...
View ArticleNetworking did not Begin With Social Media
Dale Carnegie’s iconic book How to Win Friends and Influence People, which has sold more than 15 million copies, is recognised to be one of the most successful self-help books ever published and the...
View ArticleGenerating Profits from Collaboration
Airbnb.com has used the collaborative consumption model to take a resource that would otherwise go unused (an empty bed) and connected the owner of that resource to someone who is prepared to pay for...
View ArticleSocial Media in the Emerging Digitised Economy
Every new communication technology breakthrough, from radio to television, to computers, caused experts to become overly excited about the potential to revolutionise education, entertainment or...
View ArticleCreating Value on a Digital Canvass
Building trust in the connected economy will have important economic and moral benefits. This graph maps trust against GDP per capita and is from a 1996 study that asked “generally speaking would you...
View ArticleOur Copyright Laws are a Mess
Over the last several weeks I have addressed the importance of trust, payments systems and security and I must once again return to address the most fundamental challenge of the digital world –...
View ArticleA Knowledge Economy Needs a Digital Currency
Whilst we have been ripping off music and cheering as software and news became free, the work we were doing every day increasingly relies upon respect for and valuing of intellectual property. But as...
View ArticleThe Paradox that is Copyright
The advertising model for revenue generation on the Internet is effective when a 3rd party is prepared to pay for advertising to gain access to sell their product to your audience but it is inefficient...
View ArticleBringing Us Together Enabled by Technology
I just listened to Eric Whitacre conduct a choir where physically present voices were in the moment enhanced by 32 voices from 32 countries creating a cacophony of wonderful sounds that emotively,...
View ArticleHow to Fix the Copyright System
In many of my posts this year I have been calling for a radical overhaul of the copyright system for the digitally connected economies of the 21st century. The complexity of this challenge is daunting....
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