Disruptive technologies and nascent business models mean that traditional approaches to economic development and business management are no longer sustainable. We need to innovate the way we do things, including the way we structure and lead our organizations.
Transformation is the new business mantra. Managers are told that they need to change, and to transform their organisations before they are disrupted by some external force. Share markets reward the disrupters and penalise firms that don’t respond quickly enough. And yet, for many managers, this call-to-action is…
While some of us spent the pre-Christmas period preparing for festivities ahead, Dr Jo Durham, senior lecturer in Disaster Management at QUT, was on the ground in Turkey, evaluating a landmine clearance project on the eastern borders of Turkey for the UN Development programme.
Robert Cialdini, the famous professor of psychology from Arizona State University and protagonist of the power of ethical persuasion, says that right now, somewhere, somehow, someone is creating the next great ‘thing’. He concludes that it is our job as educators to find it, understand it, support it, and…
It seems that design thinking is the new black! But what is it, and what are its fundamentals?
