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Mal  died on Saturday 3rd March, after 20 years of battling four different types of cancer. Some 250 friends and family gathered at Fremantle Cemetery to say their farewells and celebrate his extraordinary life on Monday 12 March. Mal was Chair of the Australian...

The most lucid analysis of Industry 4.0 and its prospects I have come across is by none other than Stephen Fry, the British polymath and comedian, available at http://www.stephenfry.com/2017/05/the-way-ahead/ - a succinct summary of his new book...

Something deep in our DNA leads us, at this time of year, to attempt to chart what the new year will bring. My long experience is that specific technology predictions are not only mostly wrong, but hugely wrong. Those caught up in technology development rarely...

Then rush to the latest annual Economist Intelligence Unit prognostications, available in our publications folder.

The Innovation Advisory of the Warren Centre, of which I am co-chair with Christine Chen, has offered some interesting thoughts on what companies need to do to get fit and resilient. Read more...

We are seeing regular references, and exhortations from politicians (who would know nothing), to join the Industry 4.0 revolution before its too late. What is it? ever-ready Wikipedia tells us "Industry 4.0 (4IR) is a name for the current trend of automation and data...

If you are alarmed or despondent about the regular prognostications of disappearing jobs, we recommend you step away from the alarmist technological determinism which predicts "we'll all be rooned". We have heard it many times before. Not only is it a very narrowly...

Dr Rosalind Dubs has been elected by the Board of the Australian Centre for Innovation at the AGM in September. Ros brings a wealth of experience to the ACIIC Board, as shown in her profile on this site - go to https://www.aciic.org.au/profiles/ros-dubbs/. The...