• What is innovation? What do we need innovation? … Is innovation more than inventing an unconventional product, or creating a new service or process?
• How do innovations get created? … What are the factors associated with success and failure?
• What are the roles of leadership, enterprise, creativity, and design in the process of innovation?
• Do you have ‘the right stuff’ to innovate an enterprise? …. Are you motivated to ‘make a difference’?

This short video (3 min) introduces several propositions that begin a journey towards answering these questions.

 If these propositions ‘strike a chord’ with you, then come join Peter’s learning adventure!

Enrol in course APMG 8118 Enterprise Creativity, Innovation & Design at Unitec Institute of Technology.

Next course commences 28 February, 2012.

Course tutor Dr Peter Mellalieu. http://about.me/peter.mellalieu

Enrolment link: http://www.unitec.ac.nz



Course link (for 2012-2-28): APMG 8118



The course is an ELECTIVE in Unitec’s Master of Business, MBus

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Robert says that it is a great honor to be appointed to the board for a number of reasons. Internet Research is one of a few high quality journals totally devoted to internet research from a cross-disciplinary perspective.  Also according to Emerald, “Internet Research predates the founding of the World Wide Web: as Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy it published Tim Berners-Lee’s seminal paper on the subject.” The journal has been going since 1991 which about coincides with my work with IBM. It was with IBM under the leadership globally of Lou Gerstner that I caught the ‘internet bug’ and decided to leave IBM to go to do my PhD at the University of Auckland, Department of Marketing under the supervision of Professor Rod Brodie, Professor Margo Buchanan-Oliver and Professor Michael Myers. The PhD was the first in New Zealand on online retail and marketing, based on the case of Woolworths Online (now Countdown). Among other things the work lead to two seminal co-authored papers on online branding:

1. Retail Service Branding: Davis, R., Buchanan–Oliver, M. and Brodie R. J. (2000), “Retail Service Branding in Electronic–Commerce Environments”, Journal of Service Research, 3(2), 178–186.

2. Product Branding Online: Peter J. Danaher, Isaac W. Wilson, Robert A. Davis, (2003), A Comparison of Online and Offline Consumer Brand Loyalty, Marketing Science, 22 (4): 461–476.

According to the journal, “Internet Research…was established in 1991, was the first publication seriously to debate the Internet, and covers the main areas of Internet research: technology, management, design, commerce, and user behaviour and expectation. The journal examines both the technological developments that facilitate these networks and also the social, ethical, economic and political implications of the age of mass information. International and peer-reviewed, it is the main journal to report on cutting-edge internet research. It is aimed at a wide audience comprising academics, communications executives, computer developers, librarians, and governmental officials, and covers a whole range of issues from technical ones such as standards, network design and operation, to managerial, organizational and public responsibility ones. Internet Research is ISI [Thomson Scientific] listed and in 2003, the journal’s total cites were 189 with an impact factor of 0.690.”

According to the current editor Jim Jansen: “The journal has a solid grounding now. The rejection rate is 71%, meaning 29 out every 100 submissions get published, but there is certainly a lot of room for improvement. The current impact factor is 0.844.” According to the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS), Australian Research Council and Australian Business Deans Council (Australian Business Deans Council – Journal Ranking List National Journal Consolidated (Alpha), Internet Research is ranked A.

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A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.

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This is to inform you that Robert has decided to stand down from his role as Head of Department to focus on his research and teaching career. Robert has been with the DoMM and Unitec since June 2009 as Head of Department, Associate Professor and more recently also as Acting Programme Leader for the Master of Business. He has, and continues to play, an active role in teaching and research. The department has been significantly transformed over the last 2 ½ years across teaching, research and service.

Robert would like to thank the many students who were part of the departments change over this time and those colleagues at Unitec and externally he has collaborated with in our strategy, teaching, research and service. He would particularly like to thank his masters research students; Mary Lim, Inna Piven, Daniel Hunt and Neil Gautam.  Of his external partners he would like to thank Ahsan Ali, Zac Pullen, Omid Mohtadi, Jason Kemp, Jon Clausen, Terry Brown, Tony Falkenstein, Bodo Lang and Professor Kenneth Husted. Also, Robert wishes to thank his research and teaching collaborators: Roger Hawkins, the Rosebank Business Association, Skills Update Training Institute, Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, Air Zealand, Rakon, Super Liquor and Turners and Growers.  Finally, he wants to thank Judith King for her support and loyal service.

Whole of government commitment to strategy: “A country where talent wants to live”

Commitment to education

1. Tell the stories of the job opportunities for New Zealand kids at home  (Get the kids and teachers visiting the smart businesses)
2. Significantly boost science and mathematics education in schools
3. Build school programmes in entrepreneurship
4. Boost university engineering and science capability
5. Refine PBRF to reward commercialisation work

Commitment to R and D

1. Boost science and engineering research from 0.52% GDP to 0.70% GDP (a mere $300 million)
2. Enhance R and D credits to the knowledge sector
3. Compel CRIs to give IP share of benefit to employees and allow employee spinout
4. Help establish incubators, business/engineering/science synergy

Commitment to Branding

1. Understand the value of the conservation estate, liveable cities, quality of life
2. Identify and “call out” phony environmentalism and “science-phobia”
3. Market NZ as the “smart country, a place where talent wants to live”

Commitment to Leadership and vision

1. Bipartisan approach
2. Evidence basis for decisions-understand what works for us