Innovation in State Government: Knifing in Melbourne, Trains in Sydney

OPINION, Leeton, NSW — There was a knifing in Melbourne last weekend. There is a knife, drug and violence epidemic in the Australian cities. There are severe infrastructure problems in Sydney, and emerging infrastructure problems in Melbourne.

The answer however is simple, and something State Governments avoid.

The answer is to do something.

As most governments are rewarded when they do nothing, less criticism from public & media, then the incentive is to do nothing.

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Innovation: China story a problem

ANALYSIS, Business — China story is high-risk, high-return business story.

Longer-term it can be big, but as usual, the risks are being understated. Here’s why…

7 reasons why China -story on innovation is risky:

7. China is a large nation of nation-states, much like the EU. There is no single ‘China’ nation, something missed on Westerners.

6. Legal protection may be improving, but observation and enforcement of laws varies province by province

5. Cultural differences under-estimated, as well as no > more

What really happens in consulting

ANALYSIS — The dark side of consulting politics.

Consultants are often hired to avoid inter-necine conflicts between staff members who are all vying for promotion or to keep their job in today’s hyper competitive world.

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Art & innovation leadership – where’s your ship? Notes from South Australia

ANALYSIS — Visited the Art Gallery of South Australia on Saturday. Here’s the ideas and innovation from there.

A very nice venue, with a decidedly Australian colonial focus.

Innovation is like being the sole artist in a colony.

Take yourself back to the 1800s. You’re an English artist of limited fame. You board that long voyage of months to Australia, without more than another artists picture of the place, and a verbal history. Maybe some thin written > more

Innovation: Food supply & community are defining world issues

ANALYSIS: McLaren Vale, South Australia — Writing from South Australia, outside Adelaide in the McLaren Vale wine region. Been researching innovation in food supply in the region.

Food supply important to innovation?

Yes. Definitely. Community and food (never eat alone) are crucial to the development of ideas, and understanding the point of life.

Community and food are a large part of life. French people don’t view food as ‘fuel’ this is an English-speaking (largely big city) definition.

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Other innovation centres – San Francisco

San Francisco is showing innovation leadership beyond technology, it has emerging west coast alternative to US east coast cultural dominance. It also has strong hub ties to Australia and Asia, whereas East Coast has strong hub ties to Europe. In San Francisco, July 21/22 their will be the WordPress, Word-Camp. WordPress will be the next big thing in blogging. All races become two horse races, with a third trailing eventually. WordPress is well-placed to be horse > more

Big Thing in Web 2.0 communities is shared interests. Looking for the innovation?

Forget myspace, unless you are a band, start thinking web social communities integrated around common ideas. In business words – fragmented vertical markets of web communities.

Some have said personal/professional divide. More likely we will have multiple profiles in multiple places, StumbleUpon, Xing, linkedIn, Ning, Skype and others being some of those.

Social communities

These are also ending the disconnection found in modern society. Social disconnection is the number one Innovation Driver, found > more

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