A 35 page report summarising the result of an Australian national research report run in conjunction with leading industry bodies that sort an answer from 30,000 Australian managers to the question - Are Australian managers creative and Innovative?

by Ralph Kerle on June 28, 2011

The full text of a speech given by Ralph Kerle November 2008 launching the results of a national research project "Are Australian managers creative and innovative?"

by Ralph Kerle on June 28, 2011

This article describes the relationship between business and the arts as a damaging one of mutual suspicion and recommends an ecological model as a solution. Original Printed by Marketing Magazine - Strategy Feature

by Ralph Kerle on April 13, 2008

Can business adopt a more artistic way of thinking in order to extract full value from their most valuable asset – their employees. Originally published in the Australian Institute of Company Directors Director's Journal

by Ralph Kerle on April 13, 2008

The Management Innovation Index White Paper. With a history of theory and discussion over the last 100 years why has creativity in business not been better understood; analysis of a major research project in answer to the question "Are managers creative and innovative?"; a hypothesis for benchmark creativity to determine its value in an organizational context.

by Ralph Kerle on November 29, 2010

Haikugami - The New School of Business Poetry - the reinvention of the workshop feedback form.

by Ralph Kerle on September 14, 2011

Organisations that consider innovations tend to focus on new technological gambles that are dubbed to be “innovative” but fail to deliver a commercial return. This paper contends that effective product management should be the heart of the company’s innovation program.

by Ralph Kerle on October 16, 2010

The case for developing a new language in business that recognizes people as the organization's most important asset and how to invest in that asset.

by Ralph Kerle on April 25, 2008

This white paper authored by Ralph Kerle explores the organizational dilemma of intangibility in innovation and the consequences of ignoring it; proposes a case for a systems thinking approach to organizational creativity to drive measurable innovation; reviews the importance of the emergence of the new field of organizational economics as a way of analyzing organizations and offers a method for measuring and managing the impact of creativity on the key measures for success of an organization or business in 21st Century.

by Ralph Kerle on June 28, 2011

In an increasingly fast-moving world, marketers are required to make decisions where uncertainty dominates and they are under more pressure to succeed with limited budgets, resources and short-timelines. This paper explores the challenges, shortcomings and risks inherent in making strategic marketing decisions. :

by Ralph Kerle on October 16, 2010

Ralph Kerle explores creativity in the modern business landscape and argues we need a language that speaks to and about creative value, something we don't have. Marketing Magazine Australia

by Ralph Kerle on April 13, 2008

Ralph Kerle looks for creativity in business and finds a business course that teaches leaders how to think like artists. Originally published in Fast Thinking Magazine - Business Strategy

by Ralph Kerle on April 13, 2008

A short article on how one work's creatively. Chapter from the book Creative Edges - Strategies for 24.7

by Ralph Kerle on April 13, 2008

This paper by the father of Reflective Practice, Donald Schon, discusses the inadequacy of a technicist approach to professional knowledge for dealing with real-world practice situations and calls for an alternative, reflective epistemology of practice.

by Ralph Kerle on May 8, 2012

Why businesses should be demanding tertiary courses on innovation. The Australian Newspaper Higher Education Supplement

by Ralph Kerle on April 13, 2008

How the practice of reflection plays a vital role in understanding innovation with a short case study

by Ralph Kerle on April 24, 2012

A history of the founding and development of the Creative Skills Training Council, Asia Pacific

by Ralph Kerle on April 28, 2008

A look at the emerging nature of creativity as a business and management philosophy at the turn of the century. The Australian Institute of Company Directors Journal October 2004

by Ralph Kerle on April 13, 2008

How leaders handle the ebb and flow of unresolved organisational tension is crucial to the implementation of innovation.

by Ralph Kerle on November 29, 2010

A World's Best Practice Case Study on the construct of a creativity and innovation project devised in-house

by Ralph Kerle on November 29, 2010