by Tim Parsons | Feb 17, 2017 | Ecosystems, For Corporates, For Entrepreneurs, Insights, XO
YOU = FOUNDER, CEO, PRESIDENT, DISRUPTOR-IN-CHIEF Judging by our current obsession with US political news, it seems like we’re living in an age when leadership as a personal and professional skill, is as critical, and as mysterious, as ever. I still remember my first...
by Tim Parsons | Feb 7, 2017 | Ecosystems, For Corporates, For Entrepreneurs, Insights, XO
STARTUP SCIENCE, I.E. EVIDENCE-DRIVEN Those of you who are regular readers of Pollenizer’s blog will recognise our belief in evidence-driven business model discovery – something we call “Startup Science”. Startup Science uses hypotheses about...
by Phil Morle | Oct 12, 2016 | For Corporates, Insights, XO
I can imagine the rockets going up and I am excited. Something wonderful happens when founders ask who cares about an idea and how they make the conditions for it to endure. This is how startups make amazing things with very little. They can’t operate without...
by Phil Morle | Oct 1, 2016 | Insights, XO
Nick Abrahams is a leading technology lawyer and a great mate. We co-founded Lawpath together and he is well known for his book: Digital Disruption in Australia: A Guide for Entrepreneurs, Investors & Corporates. Tuning into future trends is important to our work...
by Tristonne Forbes | Sep 16, 2016 | Insights, XO
This is how we opened a 2 day session with CSIRO: Health and Biosciences. The history of science is made up of thousands of remarkable people that have made discoveries that have changed every part of our lives, in small ways and big ways, continuously for hundreds...
by Fleur Fletcher | Aug 1, 2016 | XO
Following a two day microhack, we partnered with Horizon Power to incubate four entrepreneurs to build disrupt the energy industry. We spoke to Grant Young, who was one of the attendees chosen to come into incubation at Pollenizer. His company Nexergy, co-founded with...
by Tim Parsons | Jul 31, 2016 | XO
If we are to solve the unprecedented range and scale of global challenges confronting us, we need to get cutting edge “Deep Tech” innovation out of the lab and into the world faster. Organisations big and small will have to work together in complementary ways to...
by Phil Morle | Nov 3, 2015 | XO
I am an energy company. At least I will be soon. How we generate and flow energy is changing, driven by technology changes that are happening so fast, it is hard to see them happening around us. One day soon we will wake up and find it hard to imagine coal power...
by Phil Morle | Sep 23, 2014 | XO
Question: “How many consultants does it take to change a light bulb?” Answer: “Let me think, what’s your budget again?” … Or so the old joke goes. But perhaps not for much longer. I have talked about Deloitte’s excellent Short...
by Phil Morle | Jul 7, 2014 | XO
When your stock in trade evolves from paper notes to ones-and-zeroes on a computer screen, how vulnerable is the finance sector to digital disruption? We looked at education in last week’s case study of industries on the verge of digital disruption. This time...
by Phil Morle | Jun 24, 2014 | XO
Here at Pollenizer, we are doing more and more work with big companies who are facing digital disruption and want to apply our startup science at an enterprise level, to stimulate more entrepreneurial thinking and help them create innovative new, customer-centric...
