Category: Business

  • Successful Endeavours New Location

    We Moved That’s right. After seven great years of growth and making a difference to the local manufacturing economy, we ran out of room. So it’s good bye to lovely Berwick Village and hello to Narre Warren.   Our new address is:   Suite 4, Level 1, Casey Corporate Centre, 58-60 Victor Crescent, Narre Warren…

  • Embracing the Digital Future

    Digital Tomorrow is Today The most recent Casey Cardinia Business Group breakfast heard from Chris Riddell, futurist. This is a summary of what he said.     The future is already here. The digital revolution has happened. So what about tomorrow?   This is the question Chris posed to the room at the start of…

  • Schools of the Future

    Schools Today The modern school as we know it was designed to provide workers for the expanding paradigm of the Industrial Revolution. That is, the first Industrial Revolution. We are now up to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0. So how well are we doing three Industrial Revolutions later?     First…

  • Success Follows Pursuit of Passion

    Passion Matters Because we design other people’s products for them, we get to meet a lot of people who want success. There is nothing wrong with that. Some want to Make a Difference and are pursuing a cause they are passionate about. And I get the most satisfaction from helping them to succeed at doing…

  • CEDA – Meeting the Innovation Challenge

    CEDA and Australia’s Innovation Challenge CEDA, or the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, run regular industry sessions to discuss topics of national economic importance. The latest was a lunchtime session covering the benefits of Innovation and also some of the challenges we need to overcome to take advantage of Innovation in Australia.    …

  • Modern Business

    SEBN Session on Modern Business   Modern business structures and minimum sustainable business essential components   Richard Caro presented this session to a SEBN audience.     What if the world changed and yesterday’s game plan no longer applied?   Buggy whips – the market shifted to automobiles and most buggy whip companies went out of…

  • Australian Manufacturing is Growing

    Australian Manufacturing Grows This month we have the interesting statistic that Australian Manufacturing has grown every single month for the past 12 months. That is a whole year of positive growth. Australian Manufacturing Expansion is a good in my opinion. I know we have been led to believe that Australian Manufacturing is gone with the exit…

  • SEBN – South East Business Networks

    SEBN   One of the key statistics about the Australian business landscape is that we are last in the world for collaboration. All sorts of collaboration.  If you doubt this, just think about how much political collaboration you see here compared to overseas.   The video above is a series of snippets covering why SEBN is…

  • CEDA Australian Manufacturing Symposium 2016

    CEDA Manufacturing Symposium 2016 The Casey Cardinia Region was a major sponsor of this particular symposium, also know as the Manufacturing and Future Industries Forum,  and so this meeting included some region specific statistics. So here they are:   Casey Cardinia Region is headed for 650,000 people over the next 20 years Manufacturing accounts for more…

  • Branding – what’s the big deal?

    Branding So what is Branding? Well, it is one of the most important concepts in business. Simply put, your Brand encapsulates your promise to your customers. As an engineer who was running an Electronics Design business, I was your typical eMyth technician, or in my case, Engineer. I didn’t understand that there were dimensions to…