The why of the “social ventures incubator program?”

The City of Adelaide has shown incredible foresight and leadership last year when it tendered for a social enterprise incubator in Adelaide. You may be thinking: City council, Adelaide, social enterprises. How did these three things come…

The MegaTrend of Social Innovation

If we want to know what a business is, we have to start with its purpose, and the purpose must lie outside the business itself. In fact, it must lie in society, since a…

Arenas

How job-to-be-done redefines the basis of competition

The blind men and the elephant

Or “To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. They don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions, without a broad perspective…

The six blind men and the elephant

“Reality is one, though wise men speak of it variously.” — RigVeda

We see the world. We understand it and we interpret it. How we do it comes down to our mental models.

Professor Pots

What I learnt from Professor Potts at the launch of Blockchain APAC

Professor Jason Potts is an economist and a business model innovator who heads the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT.

What the “father of management” has to say on Innovation?

Excerpted from Peter Drucker’s book “Innovation & Entrepreneurship”

“Innovation,” then, is an economic or social rather than a technical term.

The art of “debugging” — why we all need to learn debugging to create new stuff