Media

The Year of Innovation - Malaysia 2010
Allan Ryan's Interview with Leaderonomics
Interview Part 1 and Part 2

"Why Human Resources can't stand on the sidelines"

Innovation is a current hot topic around the world. Organisations have come through a period of cost-cutting and downsizing followed by a drive towards quality and improved performance in the constant search for increased stakeholder value. The challenge of the future is about how to achieve sustained growth in an environment where capital, including human capital, can be transferred rapidly around the globe. The speed of change has increased with the introduction of global communications and transport infrastructure; such that businesses are continually being asked to embrace change and improve operations or they will fall behind their competitors...
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"Innovation Performance"

Currently, the popular press has a pronounced fondness for the word “innovation”. Businesses and governments are heralding the resurgence of biotechnology and internet companies – businesses that are all about being new and groundbreaking – along with a general need for the economy to become more innovative. The media is extolling the virtues of entrepreneurs and innovators as the new business gurus. Established companies are also embracing the drive to become more innovative. The word “innovation” is appearing in corporate mission and vision statements and core capabilities lists...read more

"New and Improved"

It is hard to measure innovation within a company, but it starts with a workplace culture that encourages experiments and forgives mistakes...read more.  By Simon Lloyd, BRW January 19, 2006 issue.