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Tim Kastelle

Student and teacher of innovation - University of Queensland Business School - links to academic papers, twitter, and so on can be found here.

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Cooperative strategy

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I’m buried in work at the moment, but I ran across this today via Venessa Miemis‘ twitter feed and thought I should share it – Towards a New Literacy in Cooperation in Business, put out by the Institute for the Future. The summary paragraph on the page that I’ve linked to doesn’t do the report […]

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If we were starting today, would we do this?

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If we were starting today, would we do this? A perfect question to ask for business model innovation from journalist Jason Fry in a recent post (hat tip to Mark Coddington). Fry looks at some of the issues facing newspapers these days, and decides that the entire model needs to be rebuilt from scratch. I […]

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the best solution to Search Engine Optimisation

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One of the ideas that I really liked in Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith is that to be successful on the web, you need to ‘change the game’ (my full review of the book is here). The idea here is that you need to create an entirely new category for whatever it […]

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focus on process, not tools

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I’m reading Kill All Your Darlings by Luc Sante at the moment, which is very good. It includes a number of pieces on culture, many originally from Village Voice or the New York Review of Books. Sante is a fantastic writer and there are a number of great lines throughout the book, but one just […]

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Jeff Jarvis on new business models for news

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I’ve talked a fair bit about business models for journalism, but Jeff Jarvis has thought about it a whole lot more than I have. Here is a video of Jarvis talking about the new ecosystem for news, and how to build successful, money-making news organisations: Jeff Jarvis on New Business Models for News 2009 from […]

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the importance of executing ideas

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I’ve always been a fan of Charles Darwin. I think that he was a great scientist – a careful observer and deep thinker. But I still agree with many of Richard Lewontin’s points from his recent article about Darwin in the New York Review of Books. The main point that Lewontin makes in the first […]

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barriers to innovation?

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Here’s a question for today – what are your biggest barriers to innovation? The one that I run up against the most myself is institutional inertia. Risk aversion is probably the biggest barrier that I’ve run into in my consulting and research. But I’m interested in hearing about yours in the comments! (picture from flickr/reinvented […]

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the innovation strategy of flowers

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That’s a grevillea from our front yard, and I took that picture in the dead of winter. Admittedly, the dead of winter in Brisbane is not exactly harsh, but when I shared that picture with friends in North America and Europe, they still thought it was pretty odd to see such a beautiful flower in […]

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Trust Agents Change the Game

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I just finished reading Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. It’s a terrific book, and for many people it will end up being essential. While the book looks at how to use the web to build business, it is not a tech book – it is actually one of the best business books […]

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twitter and the blog

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There’s been a bit going on in terms of our communication strategy recently, and I thought it might be worth giving a quick update on what’s happening. As a bonus, I’ll frame it by talking about how it fits with the idea of aggregate, filter & connect. Our objective in writing this blog is to […]