Author: Margot Cairnes
Margot Cairnes
Margot Cairnes is fascinated by digital disruption. An expert in rapid complex discontinuous change Margot helps individuals, teams, whole companies and communities harness the energy of change. Margot suggests that if you aren’t being disrupted you will soon be disrupted. The only sensible way to deal with change is to create it.
Cumulus VFX is a successful and fast growing visual effects studio, based in Byron Bay, that produces high quality visual effects for film, television and other visual media. Will Gammon, the CEO and founder, explains how creating a culture based on creativity, learning and having fun breeds successful innovation and productivity in a fiercely competitive industry. Will’s personal film credits include Lord of the Rings, Mao’s Last Dancer, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Terminator Salvation, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Superman Returns and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Will’s studios, a stone’s throw from beautiful…
Cedar Anderson, one of Australia’s greatest inventors and business innovators, talks about Flow Hive’s phenomenal success in revolutionising the worldwide beekeeping industry. Fundamental to that success has been Flow Hive’s commitment to doing the right thing and having a positive impact on the world. This commitment to doing business for a positive purpose, is one aspect that greatly distinguishes the new breed of entrepreneurs and innovators at the forefront of creating value through disruption. Cedar Anderson comments, “The new way of thinking is you do business for positive purpose. In the old way you make as much money as you…
Margot Cairnes interviews entrepreneur and innovator Nick Curtis AM on how to create a vision for a business that inspires and motivates its people. Nick can be described as a “serial entrepreneur” and market disrupter, whose business interests bridge the divide between the old economy and the new digital economy. Nick’s joint interest in mining and health, combined with his constant curiosity about technology and trends has led him to use his entrepreneurial talents in two very different ventures. Firstly, Nick is a co-founder of digital startup E-Nome. E-Nome is using blockchain technology to revolutionise the management of health and…
Margot Cairnes interviews Caltex chairman Greig Gailey about the massive changes taking place at Caltex as the world moves to the mass adoption of electric cars. Last year Greig Gailey took the Caltex Board to Silicon Valley so they could be well versed on digital disruption and what to expect in the future. It is not digitalisation however, that has led to huge changes in Caltex, but the prospect of a long term decline in demand for Caltex’s main product, petrol. Increasing fuel efficiency and eventually the advent of mass market electric and self-driving cars has put the oil industry…
Margot Cairnes talks to Steve Austen about how focusing on customer experience and customer centric design helped Inloop to become one of the fastest growing start-ups in Australia. They have won several business growth awards including the BRW Fast100 in 2013 and 2014. Steve co-founded financial technology company InLoop in 2005. The company provides payment platform services to a range of industries including government, education, health and the private sector. The company has grown to where it now services 650,000 active customers and manages over 30 million transactions. InLoop incorporates FelxiSchools and LanternPay – dedicated payment platforms for the education…
Essential to creating a disruptive culture is to promote and cultivate independent thinkers. Companies that thrive in times of radical disruption drastically reinvent themselves by: Clearly seeing the changing environment Openly discussing the implications of disruption Embracing (inventing and adopting) new ideas Employing new blood (and listening to them and all stakeholders) Not falling victim to psychological biases (such as group think) which keep them in old paradigm thinking Ensuring the culture is constantly transforming Not falling victim to fear Going up the levels of thinking When children develop their brains they go through identifiable phases of capacity. For some…
Charles Darwin told us: It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. In today’s business environment the one most responsive to change is the one who creates the change. Since 2000 50%+ of F500 companies have disappeared, these include; Kodak, Nokia, Lehman Brothers & Merrill Lynch. By 2025 a further 40% of F500 companies will go. Becoming the disruptor demands change, yet numerous studies place the failure rate of change initiatives at around 60-75%. Studies by IBM, Harvard Business review and Tower Watson tell us that only…
Margot Cairnes, change visionary and leader, talks candidly with Karen Moses, former COO and head of strategy for Origin Energy, about the impact of digital disruption on Australian companies. Karen is currently Chairmman of Sydney Dance Company, and director of Charter Hall, Orica, Boral, State Super Trustees and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She is also on the Finkel panel setup by the federal government to review the national energy market. Karen’s experience in the energy industry and the wide portfolio of companies she works with, gives her a comprehensive overview of the impact of digital disruption. What’s the biggest risk…