Business Fitness Podcast

How fit are you? How fit is your business? Whilst we tend to think of ‘fitness’ as part of exercise, it’s also a useful measure to judge the performance of our business. Just as fitness leads to good health, a lack of fitness can lead to an under-performing or even fatal business illness. This is […]

Coffee and Four Innovation Lessons

Innovation Lessons from Coffee

Some of life’s simplest pleasures can provide the greatest opportunity if we’d just take a moment to explore them. Today, in the spirit of Jerry Seinfeld we look at coffee as a filter for innovation. This is episode 74 of the Ideas Architect Podcast and it is based on a previous blog post. We look at […]

Keith Keller – Crack the Twitter Code

Keith Keller - Crack the Twitter Code

Do you get Twitter? And, I don’t mean do you know what it does. Instead, I mean do you get Twitter such that you can use it to produce real, concrete and tangible results in your business? In Episode 72 of the Ideas Architect Podcast we talk with one of the world’s top Twitter experts, […]

Mark Molony – Mighty Mindfulness

In Episode 71 of the Ideas Architect Podcast we talk with Mark Molony about mindfulness and it’s usefulness to help you lead the way in life and at work. Mark Molony Mark Molony has worked with thousands of people from many different walks of life to help them learn and deal with life and work. […]

Nadine Parkington: Digital Strategy

Nadine Parkington - Think Nimble

In Episode 70 of the Ideas Architect Podcast we talk with Nadine Parkington about creating digital marketing strategy in the face of dramatic technological change and disruption from global competition. Nadine Parkington Nadine Parkington is the Founder of Think Nimble who provides digital marketing strategy for established brands. Her core philosophy revolves around the use […]

Ian Berry – Simplifying Leadership

Ian Berry

Ian Berry In his corporate life, Ian was a State Manager for a Financial Services company overseeing 200 people and sales in excess of $100 million. Since leaving the corporate world Ian has become an expert in the leadership space. He is an author, speaker, blogger and mentor. Ian is also: Past National President of the […]

Irma Zimmermann: Online Branding

Irma Zimmermann

Irma Zimmermann In this episode of the Ideas Architect podcast we talk with Irma Zimmerman. Irma has international experience in graphic design, advertising and creating brand identities. Currently she is based in Melbourne and works around the three overlapping areas of: Design websites Social media technology Brand Identity Topic: Website and Online Branding Here are […]

Business Measures to help you stay on the right track

Business Measures

Business measures are crucial for helping you work out if you are on track, off track or you’ve completely lost track. In this article, we share seven things you might like to measure to ensure you’re focused and on the right track. (Plus you can listen to a podcast episode of this post if your […]

The Best Thing I’ve Learnt

Recently a colleague asked me: What’s the best thing you’ve learnt in the past six or twelve months? And, I immediately thought, ‘What a great question!’ It took a little longer to come up with my answer. Firstly, I think this is a great question that we should all take a moment and consider. What […]

Ten things to review to see if you are out of date

Are you out of date? Planner 2013

  On the weekend I was doing a spring clean. (Even though it’s not actually Spring in Australia). Along the way, I found an unopened Year Planner in mint condition. I thought ‘this could be useful’ until I realized that it was a Year Planner for 2013. Mmm… that’s two years ago. Not much use […]