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This is what better business means to me.

March is BCorp month. At Inventium, we’re proud to be one of thousands of Certified B Corporations, meaning we meet the highest standards of verified social & environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. To help promote BCorp month, I received a PR kit from BCorp. It suggested posing this question to customers and…

Dr. Amantha Imber • 23 August 2021

4 things that innovation IS NOT.

In defining what innovation IS NOT, it’s helpful to first understand what innovation IS. As I’m sure many of you know, at Inventium, we define innovation as ‘change that adds value’. This definition probably seems broad, and that’s because it is! The definition is purposefully broad to make sure that…

Zoe Aitken • 8 February 2021

Why innovation fails

Failure is necessary in the pursuit of innovation. With failure, comes learning. However, the well trodden path of previous innovation successes and failures has surfaced some critical lessons that need not be repeated by future innovators of the world.  Whether you are just starting your innovation…

Charlotte Rush • 1 February 2021

Re: Purpose

It has been 12 months since the Business Roundtable, the CEO association of the United States, declared and committed to leading organisations based on purpose. That is, seeking to make valuable contributions to people and society that go beyond economic value (1). It has also been 12 months since…

Joey Calandra • 31 August 2020

How to build a culture of innovation when 80% of your workforce is working from home

The date is 9 March, 2020. I walk into my co-working office and I am immediately bombarded with signals about the culture of said-coworking space, and by association, my organisation. The decor is full of natural light, bright colours and interesting artwork. The Spotify playlist rotates from “hip-office vibes” to…

Charlotte Rush • 17 August 2020

Why Plato can turn us into better innovators during a pandemic.

As we navigate through this challenging COVID period, I’ve found huge comfort and meaning in the words of some of our famous Greek philosophers. It’s crazy how relevant and insightful some of their words still are, thousands of years later. One of my favourite philosophers, Plato, famously once said that…

Zoe Aitken • 17 August 2020

This ingredient is necessary if you want to be a workplace of the future

This week I have been thinking about the future of work. Like anyone, I turned first to Google. When I was overcome with the flood of warnings of a post-pandemic world where we live on Zoom, wearing ‘set’ tracksuits and never again returning to the office, I turned to my…

Charlotte Rush • 30 July 2020

The secret to adaptation is self-compassion

Don’t you hate it when you have one of those ‘aha’ moments in your life, only to realise that your emotional baggage is still a ball-and-chain? My recent ‘aha’ moment was like assembling a puzzle. I recognised each piece and as I put them together, a familiar image became obvious…

Joey Calandra • 1 July 2020

How to best prepare for a ripper ‘virtual’ brainstorming session

Getting a group of people together to brainstorm ideas was already hard enough in the pre-pandemic world. Re-hashing the same ideas over and over again, the same people contributing their ideas each time, the cynics up the back of the room saying “we already tried that”, and being left with…

Zoe Aitken • 11 June 2020