by Phil Morle | Dec 17, 2013 | For Corporates
When practising lean in a corporate environment your first customer is your CEO. Well that was one of the take-aways from last week’s Lean Startup Conference, a point not so much articulated on stage as it was in the hallways and breakout rooms of the Masonic Centre...
by Phil Morle | Dec 16, 2013 | For Corporates
People’s Choice winner Samuel Killin, describes his experience at last month’s Sydney Firehose competition. Somewhere along the line I realised that corporates don’t do anything by coincidence. As such, I was honestly skeptical when I heard about...
by Phil Morle | Dec 12, 2013 | Insights
I was honoured to be invited to give a talk on disruption at Ateneo University in Manila. Here is the deck and a video of the session. The title is a homage to Daft Punk. Play this while you flick through the slides. The slides The...
by Phil Morle | Dec 2, 2013 | Insights
Time for a retrospective on the Firehose hackathon for Coca-Cola The critical measure is what happens when the hackathon is over. People give so much. Time. Energy. Imagination. In the case of Firehose, we had over 20 mentors, 5 judges and 50 participants giving up 2...
by Phil Morle | Nov 21, 2013 | For Corporates
In this guest post, startup visual designer Jordan Gillman of Jordesign calls for an end to corporate exploitation of the startup community. Is he right to be concerned? Do we need a Charter of Australian Hackathon Organisers maybe? Last week I saw the announcement...
by Phil Morle | Nov 19, 2013 | For Corporates
This economy is built on art, the art that is created by emotional labour, by bringing risk and joy and fear and love to the table. Emotional labour scales in that a little more emotional labour is worth a lot. Seth Godin / The Icarus Deception We are half way through...
by Phil Morle | Nov 15, 2013 | For Entrepreneurs
Coca-Cola is one of the most innovative companies in the world. Looking across the globe, we see this massive business learning at startup speed and using technology everywhere to get the edge. For example, did you know that Coca-Cola Enterprises in Europe has an open...
by Phil Morle | Nov 14, 2013 | For Corporates
“Measure twice, cut once” is an attractive rule to live by if you are a multi-billion dollar company. There is a lot to lose. The problem with doing this in a startup is that we build something that no one wants in our minds, research papers and specification...
by Phil Morle | Nov 13, 2013 | Insights
Can big companies really innovate at startup speed? I say yes. 3 months ago, 20 people from across Singtel came together for a lean startup bootcamp in Singapore. This team learned that a startup is not a small version of a big company and tools and approaches they...
by Phil Morle | May 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Four Pollenizer businesses require co-founders. All businesses are very young and need gutsy entrepreneurs with the audacity to believe that they can pull off a global business with limited resources. First you need to be interested in one of these opportunities:...
by Phil Morle | May 13, 2013 | Pollenizer News, Uncategorized
Telstra is partnering with Pollenizer to deliver Appiness, a hackathon for people who love to build and make a difference. Designers, engineers, entrepreneurs and anyone in between are invited to gather for two and a half days of hacking, hustling and creativity. With...
