Bill Brown's List: BUSINESS INNOVATION

11 critical elements of a business plan pitch
Your business plan pitch deck should cover the following topics. In some cases, you can change the order around, and /or use more than one slide for each element, but make sure to cover them all. I’ll go through each of these in much more detail in posts to come, and in my upcoming book.

1. Strong team. (You’ve got the right people for the challenge.)
2. Attractive market. (The market has the right size, growth and trends.)
3. Customer needs. (Customers have proven, critical, and unmet needs.)
4. Positioning. (A tight synopsis of your company’s reason for being.)
5. Product/service. (Overview of your offering.)
6. Marketing approach. (How you will attract customers.)
7. Business model. (How you will make money, and unit economics.)
8. Competition and risk. (Top obstacles / threats, and how you’ll preempt / react to them.)
9. Implementation plan. (What you’ve done so far, and what you’ll do next by phase.)
10. Financial projections. (How, when, and to what extent money will flow out and in.)
11. Financing round. (How much money you need, when, for what, where it will get you, and how investors will benefit.)

Rights-based exclusion (make money by exercising exclusive rights - licensing or blocking competition) Romantic Maximizers (authors, composers; sell to publishers; sometimes sell to Mickeys) Mickey (Disney reuses inventory for derivative works; buy output

The Australian Business Foundation is an independent organisation undertaking evidence-based research to deliver fresh insights and practical intelligence to boost Australia’s capabilities and global competitiveness.
The Foundation connects you to leading intelligence and forward-thinking people.
For the past decade, the Foundation’s research has focused on business innovation and sustainability, new models of competitiveness and opportunities arising from a knowledge-based economy.
The Foundation undertakes its research in partnership with expert scholars and practioners from around the world. This has established the Foundation as a leader in bridging academic research with realities and challenges of everyday business experience.

he Creative Leadership Forums' Vision

through research, to capture knowledge and insight about practices and applications of creative leadership, management innovation and creativity. Our emphasis is on practice and the heuristics associated with the practice.
to work with organisations of all nature to develop their innate capabilites and capacities to become real management and social innovators for themselves and their markets for 21st century.
to create, design and deliver internationally recognised creative leadership, management innovation,  creativity and innovation executive education and corporate training programmes to assist organisations in achieving their goals and objectives.
to work with universities, academics and practitioneers on internationally recognised research programmes to enhance the design and delivery of Creative Leadership Forum programmes

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Innovation is the key to making Australia more productive and more competitive. It is the key to answering the challenge of climate change, the challenge of national security, the age-old challenges of disease and want. It is the key to creating a future that is better than the past.

Our capacity for invention and discovery depends on the strength of our national innovation system. This is the system we use to harness the creativity of our people. It is the system we rely on to transform great ideas into great results for the community, the economy and the environment. Genius is wasted if you can’t capture it and apply it to the real world. That’s what the national innovation system does.

These pages will provide information on innovation and the Australian Government's 10 year innovation strategy, Powering Ideas.

The site is divided into five areas:

Science & innovation investment framework 2004-2014

The Government has published a ten-year investment framework for science and innovation alongside the 2004 Spending Review. The framework sets out the Government’s ambition for UK science and innovation over the next decade, in particular their contribution to economic growth and public services, and the attributes and funding arrangements of a research system capable of delivering this.

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Create new market through disruptive innovation rather than gradually lose share through a sustainable innovation approach that will enventually see cheaper versions flood the market 

. Creative people are full of curiosity.
Creative people are wonderstruck. They are tickled by the newness of every moment. They have lots of questions. They keep asking what, why, when, where and how.
A questioning mind is an open mind. It is not a knowing mind. Only an open mind can be creative. A knowing mind can never be creative.

A questioning stance sensitizes the mind in a very special way and it is able to sense what would have been missed otherwise.

Australian Social Innovation Exchange Limited is a non-profit company formed to find better ways of tackling social problems and responding to growing community needs or opportunities.
Our Vision
To enable Australia’s changemakers to accelerate pioneering early-stage ideas into positive social change.
Our Vision
To build networks that connect Australia’s social changemakers with the right people, tools, investments and knowledge.
Our Values
We endeavour to work in programs and projects that are empowering, pioneering, making the process of connecting people more systematic, being as open and collaborative as possible and, crucially, learning and sharing more about what works and why.

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The West Cumbria Business Cluster is a private sector led group of 140+ SMEs to global businesses. Our members include world class, innovative and highly competitive companies that offer high value jobs in the region.

The Cluster was founded in 2003 in response to concerns about the impact of decommissioning of civil nuclear facilities on the supply chain and economy of West Cumbria. Now firmly established, we help our member companies share knowledge and market intelligence and build links with research and development and business support organizations. We actively support them to promote their individual capabilities

Industry Innovation Councils 
The Government has established eight Industry Innovation Councils (Councils) covering a number of industries. The Councils contribute to building an innovation culture in Australia.
They:
provide strategic advice on innovation priorities to the Ministerchampion innovation in industrybuild connections and collaborate across Councils and with other i

The public spending reductions set out by the Comprehensive Spending Review present a real challenge to public service professionals. How do I preserve the quality of my service whilst achieving cuts of this scale? How can services continue to protect the vulnerable in society and employ the best staff when resources are so tight? These are difficult times. But our research and practical experience at NESTA tells us that challenge shouldn’t preclude innovation. Indeed, the best way to make savings in public services is to think more creatively about what you’re trying to achieve, and what resources you can use to get there. Do tell us what you think – we’re keen to hear your ideas

lITERACY AND NUMERACY REPORT 

10 business models