Posts tagged "innovation"

Most people turn up to work wanting to do a good job — your task as a leader is to inspire your staff to listen and follow through. So here's how.

While the government's instant asset write-off scheme forms a key part of its small business policy, a large number of firms aren't using it.

While jumping from structural engineering to SMS-based marketing solutions might not seem logical, founder Matt Larner has pulled it off with aplomb.

If dealing with staff performance is soaking up too much of your time and energy and you’d prefer to be focussing more gratifying activities, read on.

"We’ve let capitalism have a stranglehold on defining innovation ... [but] innovation is common outside business if you look for it."

Amazon has just voluntarily raised its employees’ minimum wage to US$15 an hour — and given the US federal minimum wage is US$7.25 it is a big shift.

Virgin founder Richard Branson might be about to beat Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to the punch by launching himself into space.

Fed up small business owners suffering construction disruption are getting the short end of the stick from major infrastructure projects.

Innovation is not new. We have been innovating for millennia. The key driver through all of this was our desire to improve the way we do things.

As far as being both innovative and having the most patents filed, Taiwan comes out on top, followed by Israel, US, Denmark, South Korea and Japan.

Time and again the use of environmental primes, or nudges, have been set up in the Shopify offices as a way to shape employee behaviour.

Amazon says its new physical retail location is a reflection on its customers, leaving the door open to expanding the concept.