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What do companies (as opposed to everyone else), need to do to develop their resilience?
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...
So what does Industry 4.0 offer to give, and take away?
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...
Are the robots really going to take all our jobs?
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...
New Chair for the Australian Centre for Innovation
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...
Talented students celebrate 6 months of high-flying achievements
Advanced Engineering students show their stuff at Innovation Week
Innovation Week was celebrated at the University of Sydney by a series of presentations on learning and applying diverse engineering skills to development, disaster and remote communities in Australia and around the world.
Drones to Reshape Engineering Consulting – Sydney University Advanced Engineering students show how
See the full story of what talented first year engineering students can do under Professor Ron Johnston's guidance at http://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2017/08/15/cardno-drones-challenge-helps-students-ideas-take-flight.html
Yet more evidence of Australia’s declining economic competitiveness
The latest IMD World Competitiveness Index 2017 reveals that Australia has fallen five places to 21st in the world in economic competitiveness in the past year. And while we rank 15th out of 63 nations when it comes to digital competitiveness, analysis of the...
Future Jobs – Globalisation, Automation, Evolution – are you ready for what’s coming?
Check out the article based on an interview with Ron Johnston at https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2017/03/24/future-jobs.html
Ron Johnston appointed to Expert Advisory Panel
IMNIS (Industry mentoring Network in STEM), the national mentoring program connecting researchers and industry mentors, has appointed Professor Ron Johnston as a member of an Expert Advisory Panel of senior business and academic leaders to advise on implementation of...