Corporate Strategy in Uncertain Times Over the last 40 years we have been in the midst of a technological revolution. Information Technology and Telecommunications innovations have fundamentally altered how we live, created new industries and destroyed old ones. Existing industries are now at threat of disruption like never before. Corporate strategy and organisation is in…

The Challenge In October 2016, Startup61 entered into a trailblazing partnership with Melbourne Health to run the first accelerator program inside an Australian hospital, the Royal Melbourne in Parkville. We transformed the defunct intensive care unit (ICU) into a collaborative workspace where startups, and clinicians could accelerate the growth of their solutions…

The Design Sprint Most teams invest months, sometimes years testing new ideas developing a new product or service. Too often they that they have created something that nobody really wants. The team at Google Ventures developed a process that simulates the product design and development process — in only five days. This ‘Design…

Over the last 15 years, I’ve seen an amazing shift in entrepreneurial activity. From the heady days of the dot-com boom, which saw the label of “Entrepreneur” overhyped and overused by the rich and aimless — ridiculed as much as praised. …