10 Innovative Ideas for Travel Agents


Some travel agents think the Internet has destroyed their business because clients now have access to everything online. However, smart travel agents are using their expertise, knowledge and insights to use the online world to create more compelling experiences for their clients – which means ...

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Ideas For Local Government Innovation in our Fast, Flat and Free World


Local government authorities face challenges and opportunities in our fast, connected and open world. Those that meet the challenges and embrace the opportunities can provide better services, remain sustainable and viable, and thrive even in an uncertain future. ...

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Financial Services Firms:Staying Ahead of the Game In Our Fast, Flat and Free World


Financial services firms in Australia continue to face uncertainty through government regulation (FoFA and FSI), market conditions, increasing competition, and online services. Smart practices who see opportunity in this volatile environment can stand out from the rest, embrace change and innovation...

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Private Hospitals: Stay Ahead of the Game with Better Patient Experiences


Private hospitals and other healthcare facilities are facing a number of challenges – including budgetary pressures and reduced AR-DRG funding, the constant need to upgrade technology, and increasing competition (especially with incentives for public hospitals to admit private patients). In th...

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Five Ways for Travel Agents to Improve Their Client Experience


The travel industry is undergoing huge changes, especially with consumers using online services to plan and book their own travel, bypassing the traditional travel agent. That’s bad news for agents who resist the change, but extremely good news if you’re an agent who’s willing to e...

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Joi Ito – Want to Innovate? Become a "Now-ist"


When the major earthquake hit Japan in March 2011 and caused a nuclear reactor to fail, Joi Ito decided to do something about it. Bypassing the NGOs and government bodies frantically trying to solve the problem, he gathered a group of people online to create a network called “Safecast”, ...

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Shai Reshef: An ultra-low-cost college degree


Education, especially formal education, is expensive. Or at least, it was expensive. The Internet is now making it more affordable than ever before, especially when people like Shai Reshef dedicate their lives to providing low-cost education to everybody. Watch his fascinating TED Talk here: The ta...

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Prevention Is Better Than Cure – But Only If You Do It Right


Our world is moving so fast that we don’t give ourselves much room to play safe. For example: An unhappy employee can send an offensive tweet that reaches millions in a few hours An online security breach can be exploited by hackers before it’s even discovered Leaders can’t hide b...

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Ideas With Legs – Innovation for Employee Engagement


Innovation is an employee engagement strategy. Learn how to harness the innovation in your people to develop and future proof your organisation. Most organisations have struggled with the idea of employee engagement – especially now, because employees have more choices, greater flexibility, an...

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Ideas With Legs, by Nils Vesk


There are many books about business innovation, but few are as practical as this, which helps you take an idea all the way from something abstract in somebody’s head into the practical implementation in your organisation. Broadly, Vesk breaks down the “ideation” process into four group...

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