Blog
11
Dec
Let’s Get Care: Discovering a Blue Ocean in Home Care Packages
Category: Blog
Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy. We call it value innovation because instead of focusing on beating the competition, you focus on making the competiti...
06
Dec
Better Care and Funding Models: It’s the Quality, Stupid
Category: Blog
The Scottish philosopher, Alisdair MacIntyre, once offered that what we believe to be fundamentally real underpins our ethical beliefs. This in turn reflects the economic paradi...
21
Oct
Empathy First: How Aged Care Providers Understand their Consumers and Drive Innovation
Category: Blog
With public trust in aged care decreasing, and consumer experience not meeting consumer expectations, how we support and care for older Australians is at a crossroads. To surviv...
02
Oct
Who owns the customer?
Category: Blog
There is only one boss. The customer. And they can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending their money somewhere else. Sam Walton, Founder, W...
30
Sep
Digital Transformation Is A Marriage Not A Wedding
Category: Blog
“In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hat...
13
Sep
Technology – Transforming and Humanising Aged Care Services
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Piers Hogarth-Scott & Roshani Manouchehri Technology – Transforming and Humanising Aged Care Services The aged care sector is deeply important to many Australians at a...
21
Jun
You can’t win by only being compliant: Cohesion and dissent is your secret sauce
Category: Blog
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” – Peter Drucker As an innovation network that focuses on improving consumer-centricity in the age servic...
23
May
Culture Matters – Moving the Innovation Needle in Age Services
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Innovation can be a troubled topic at the best of times. Often conflated with digital or cutting edge technology, innovation runs the risk of being little more than a flag beare...
21
May
Even If Robots Can ‘Fix’ Loneliness, The Question Remains – Should They?
Category: Blog
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness...
06
Dec
innovAGEING: What’s Next Is More Important Than What We’ve Done
Category: Blog
It’s the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times....