volume 4 issue 5 - october 2008
High Value Business Analysis
by Jarmal Richard
Over the past 10 years we have seen companies embrace information technology to provide data and statistics on the health of their company. Whilst this has been of tremendous help to executives, companies now face too much data, too much information and not enough time in their day. How can a senior management team make sense of all that data coming in and how can the team use it to make effective strategic decisions?
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Coupling Innovation
by Roger LaSalle
Indeed statistics would show that most new ventures fail, either totally, or in reaching anywhere near forecast revenue targets. Most of all, really new things have an alarmingly high failure rate.
Would you believe the facsimile machine was actually patented in 1898? That the personal computer would have been a flop had it not been for the development of word processing and spreadsheets; that the photocopier took more than 10 years to come into common use and the internet more than 15?
Whilst business is tough and fraught with risk; businesses founded on really new and novel concepts is even tougher.
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Leveraging Design Capability
I wonder why it is that we so willingly ignore designers? Is it because we think they are the people that take a perfectly good product and change it to make it more aesthetically pleasing to themselves, and then insist that we follow their new concept (and lose money because costs go up and consumer interest goes down)? Of course it is: our image of designers is effete and impractical people, whose work appeals to - well, to designers!
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ANZA Technology Network’s Gateway to the US Summit
October 21-22, 2008, Plug and Play Tech Center, Sunnyvale, CA
Australian innovative tech companies will showcase their companies and demo their products at the Gateway to the US Summit in Silicon Valley, October 21-22, 2008.
If you will be in Silicon Valley during October, this is a must-attend event. In addition to seeing some great Aussie companies on stage, the networking opportunities are tremendous during this two-day informal gathering. This year, the Aussie companies will also join in an international start-up competition and pitch alongside companies from Canada, Mexico, China and Europe at Plug and Play’s International Expo. A panel of Silicon Valley tech experts will choose three winners for Best in Show honors. The second day of the Summit (Oct. 22) is devoted to business forums that cover topics of interest to Australian and other international companies developing a US market strategy. Topics include legal, marketing, funding and business strategies.
Complete details and registration here
