Innovation: mind the gap research presentation Presented by Richard Spencer

Innovation: Mind the Gap Does innovation improve productivity and/or reduce cost ? What is the net effect for Australian Organisations?

Does innovation improve productivity and/or reduce cost ? What is the net effect for Australian Organisations?

If you’re one in a million in Australia…

… there are 20 people just like you

Flexible working arrangements

Technology enables flexible working

One in three undertrained

The training and development gap

Innovation in the working environment

Does a reputation for being ‘green’ make money

Technology does improves productivity

The easy way out?

User friendly technology drives productivity

Internet usage 15.3 million web users penetration >70% Global web population exceeds 1.3 billion Mobile phone subscribers by 2010 – 4 billion

Do you use social networking sites in the workplace?

There are 37 million registered users of Facebook

There are 106 million registered users of MySpace

If MySpace were a country it would be the 11 th largest in the world (between Japan and Mexico)

The average MySpace page is visited 30 times each day

Globally one new blog is created every second of every day

More than 15% of businesses use social networking sites for sales and marketing purposes.

More than 15% of businesses use social networking sites for

sales and marketing purposes.