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Here’s what Australia’s top ten most innovative companies do differently

As the methodology partner behind the AFR’s Most Innovative Companies List, Inventium has access to a whole heap of data about how Australia and New Zealand’s most innovative companies manage their innovation programs. We gather information from hundreds of companies about aspects relating to their…

Zoe Aitken • 3 April 2019

‘Think differently!’ How to make sure it’s not a phrase filling airspace

‘Think differently’, says the poster of values as you come out of the lifts and into the office. And while that’s great advice, and the brain is capable of many amazing feats, thinking differently because you’re told to ‘think differently’ is perhaps not one of them. So how do…

Lucy Zucker • 10 September 2018

How to be like Facebook (but in the best possible way)

I have just finished reading an excellent book called “The Four” which charts the world domination of Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google. It’s filled with a huge number of interesting insights, too many to cover here. It is only one sentence of 10,000 buried deep in the Facebook chapter…

Imogen Aitken • 10 September 2018

How to get rich customer insights in three simple steps

Businesses live and die by the decisions that their customers (or non-customers) make each and every day. Ultimately, it’s our customers that decide whether or not our innovations are a huge success or a whopping failure. So it makes sense that when we want to identify our next big innovation…

Nick Johnston • 12 July 2018

Three signs that your organisation is killing innovation

Innovation is a word at the tip of almost every CEO’s lips. However, despite the best of intentions, many organisations are killing innovation. There are several issues that these organisations have in common.   Leaders don’t walk the talk While the majority of CEOs and their leadership teams talk…

Dr. Amantha Imber • 22 December 2017