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RMIT Blog Central: January 2016

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Tuesday, 12 January 2016. A lifelong relentless curiosity – David Bowie’s creative legacy. After the concert, SO36, West Berlin, 1982. Photo by Anno Dittmer, Geniale Dilletanten exhibition, RMIT Gallery. David Bowie, who has just died of cancer at the age of 69, was more than a pop star. It is no surprise that as news of his death became known the internet was flooded with respectful, grief filled tributes. As people tried to grasp the complexity of Bowie’s career and creativity. The Man Who Fell to Earth.

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RMIT Blog Central: September 2016

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Friday, 16 September 2016. By Marcus Powe, RMIT's Entrepreneur-in-Residence. All organisations are in an Industry Value Chain (IVC). Why call it a chain? Each link in the chain represents an organisation in a market, where are you? 8221; Wow the Internet! Strip back the terms and jargon, you still have an IVC. The IVC is simply a way of drawing the market that an organisation competes in. You may be asking yourself, ‘Why would I bother drawing the marketplace? Vertical: to increase your market share, to ...

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RMIT Blog Central: February 2016

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Wednesday, 10 February 2016. So what do you know? A Learning Curve is a graph that shows the knowledge (wisdom) of an organisation compared to the knowledge of its competitors. If graphed periodically, the Learning Curve can also show the increases in knowledge over time by the players in the market. What the entrepreneur wants to do is reduce the time involved in gaining that knowledge. The importance of the Learning Curve regarding survival and competition cannot be underestimated. The Learning Cur...

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RMIT Blog Central: November 2015

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Friday, 13 November 2015. Change the story: how the world's first national framework can help prevent violence against women. In Australia, one woman is killed almost every week by a current or former partner. By now, these horrifying murders are all too familiar. But they are just a small part of the bigger story. But violence against women is not inevitable. Rather, it is driven by a series of complex and entrenched but changeable social and environmental factors. What is the framework based on? Change...

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RMIT Blog Central: May 2016

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Thursday, 26 May 2016. Zoom out to understand your process. By Marcus Powe, RMIT's Entrepreneur in Residence. What on earth happened? Have you ever wondered, “How come I did not see that”? The reason for this is often you are too close to your process, product, service, device or instrument and have not zoomed out for some time. If you do not zoom out you will miss the big picture, the driving forces and opportunities. The Forces – Miss one and you will be blown away. The ICSF are concerned with the noti...

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RMIT Blog Central: December 2015

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Thursday, 24 December 2015. The humble pen is having something of a revival in the face of the digital. Adult colouring books. Are bound to be popular stocking fillers this Christmas. They make up four of Amazon UK’s top 10 books, a trend that has been embraced by stressed Australians. Melbourne neuropsychologist Stan Rodski’s. Books have been incorporated into mindfulness and wellness initiatives in such organisations as ANZ Bank, Wesfarmers and Bupa. Of early drawings at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New ...

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RMIT Blog Central: June 2016

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Tuesday, 28 June 2016. The need for justice and rights in Australia’s health policy debate. By Dr Russell Solomon. As a developed country, Australia provides the resources and facilities to ensure that the majority of the population are able to access adequate health care. Generally, other socio-economic determinants of health and wellbeing are also being met in terms of the basics: nutrition, clean drinking water, sanitation and a relatively pollution free environment. During the current federal electio...

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RMIT Blog Central: March 2016

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Wednesday, 30 March 2016. How to succeed at disrupting your business. By Marcus Powe, RMIT's Entrepreneur-in-Residence. And the best is of course the smart phone; who on earth would want to by a dumb phone? To be a successful innovator you need disruptive processes. What does this really mean? Perhaps what this is saying is you need to introduce change? Everyone is fearful of change. I often ask my students “who likes change? 8221; and people pop up their hand. I think yeah right, I then change eithe...

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RMIT Blog Central: September 2015

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Wednesday, 30 September 2015. When Species Meet: The Media Response to the Pig-Gate Scandal. David Cameron - image via iStock. After a week of the British media squealing with delight at allegations that David Cameron put a private part of his anatomy in a dead pig’s mouth back in his university days, the Prime Minister has finally confirmed he is disputing the claim. Made in a new biography. The allegations are disclosed in Lord Michael Ashcroft’s new unauthorised biography Call Me Dave. It’s a ve...

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RMIT Blog Central: October 2015

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Monday, 26 October 2015. Australian Creativity, Innovation and Enterprise. By Dr Marcus Powe. There is a peculiar phenomenon in Australia. We do not cheer for success unless a. Ball, a bat or a horse is involved. We do not cheer for engineers, scientists, teachers,. It’s time we did. We are facing an era of massive economic change, and we need to. Foster creativity, innovation and enterprise to drive future success. We need to focus our leading thinkers on these challenges. Struggled to make real progress.