Media + Blog
21
Mar
innovAGEING partners with KontentLabs to foster open innovation
Category: Media
Aged care professionals will be able to collaborate, share ideas, and gain knowledge in real time with the development of an online open innovation lab. The initiative was launc...
03
Nov
2020 innovAGEING National Awards Finalists Details
Category: Media
Age Services Innovator of the Year Award April Creed and Rebecca Glover, ExSitu with Illawarra Retirement Trust (IRT) for their work in spinning out their advanced care planning...
02
Mar
Getting Aged Care Innovation Right And Karma’s Inevitability
Category: Blog
For those who’ve been following, the aged care industry is currently undergoing sweeping changes as a result of government reforms to address demographic pressures, rising costs...
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...
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...
27
Apr
Questioning the norms: ‘Design thinking’ essential for unprecedented advances
Category: Blog
Over time, the ‘revolutionary’ idea can become as logical and obvious as wheels on a suitcase. If the last five years have all been about the collection of data, the next period...
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...
17
Apr
How can providers manage social and community perceptions during COVID-19?
Category: Blog
Unfortunately, there is no marketing and communications playbook for managing a global health crisis like COVID-19. Professional marketers, agencies, PR firms and communicators ...
16
Dec
Gamification, a New Approach for Age Services?
Category: Blog
The age services sector has been hit hard in 2020. Residents are disproportionately represented in COVID death statistics and the carers supporting them have been put under con...
31
Mar
Combating Lockdown Isolation with Technology and Music
Category: Blog
New restrictions mean residents of aged-care facilities are feeling more isolated than ever, with overworked, overburdened staff scrambling to provide services to continue to su...