Digital Economy Future Directions blog: What is this about?

To start 2009 off, I would like to draw your attention to an interesting blog being run by the Australian Federal Government. The first one, Digital Economy Future Directions blog: What is this about? is being facilitated by Minister Senator StephenConroy through the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy The purpose of the blog - to assist the Australian Government develop a Future directions paper for the digital economy—a roadmap for Australian businesses, households and government to maximise participation in the digital economy. Themes being covered

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The Urgency Conundrum: Battling Economic Forces While Building for the Future

In December 1862, President Abraham Lincoln wrote in his second annual message to Congress: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so must we think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."

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Launch Speech on The Results of the National Research Survey "Is Australian management creative and innovative?"

Here is the full text of the speech I gave at the Annual General Meeting of the Australian Services Rountable in Sydney on November 5 launching the Creative Leadership Forum National Research Report"Is Australian management creative and innovative?" To-day the word innovation appears almost daily in the media. There are 360 million references to innovation on Google and on the Google Daily RSS feed I receive notice of new books and articles released daily globally on the topic. Every expert offers a different solution! Every job advertisement talks about the applicant having the need to be creative and innovative. It appears this thing called innovation is a common everyday occurrence. One might be able to talk about it as if it is. In practice, the reality is very different.

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