Environment, Future, Solutions - How can Environment Business Australia help you?

Attended an event yesterday conducted by the EBA – ‘Environment Business Australia’ The program was titled ‘Yes We Can’ and provided a resource of information from senior executives on how to build a major climate change action strategy from the business community. The objective they have is to strengthen Australia’s response to one of the world’s greatest challenges whilst building our next era of prosperity. The presentations were diverse and varied with introduction from two main contributors Dr David Karoly, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne; IPCC author; member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists And Nick Sankey, Head of Utilities, Energy & Renewable Solutions, Commonwealth Bank Followed by a panel of nine – with short insights into what we can do. Given Australia has five times the global average of emissions, it is appropriate that we have many more discussions along these lines.

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Times are changing - explained in 30 seconds

Perhaps we are all ready to change, though how much? Here is an idea summarised in 30 secs

IdeaPort : strategic innovation, foresight, and futures thinking.

From the Dec/Jan 09 issue of Fast Company magazine comes a great article about Cisco. Several paragraphs of note including: Get ready for the upturn. “What’s our vision for where this industry is going with or without us?” That, [CEO John Cambers] says, is a five-year horizon. “What is our differentiated strategy within that vision?” That’s a two- to four-year plan. “How are we going to execute in the next 12 to 18 months?” Chambers is convinced that the role of the CEO has to morph. He recalls a lesson he learned working for An Wang of Wang Laboratories, whom he has often called one of the smartest people he’s ever known: “One person cannot anticipate a market transition. At Wang, we transitioned four times, but we missed the fifth, from mini computers to PC and software. If you don’t catch them [all], you leave your company behind.”

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Opinion: Innovation and the 20% solution

As IT budgets threaten to follow the same trend lines as financial markets, it's a natural impulse for managers to circle the wagons, concentrate on core projects and put off innovation for another day. Natural, but wrong. For proof, look at what happened after the Internet bubble burst earlier this decade. Sure, that tech bust pales in comparison with the current worldwide credit crunch in terms of overall effect, but if you consider the Internet sector alone, the money drought and corporate failures were pretty stunning.

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