An interactive talk to WA Leaders - how can business leaders manage disruption wrought by digital technologies, and how can they best take advantage of this disruption?

1. Charlie Gunningham
Commercialisation Adviser
(Accelerating Commercialisation)
charles.gunningham@industry.gov.au
0411 092 669

2. Slides at > slideshare.com/charliegunningham
are you prepared?
how can you take advantage?

3. © Copyright International Leaders Pty Ltd
Is your industry being disrupted, right now?
Vote Now
1. Yes
2. No
3. Unsure
4. Not Applicable
5. Don't Care
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4. MY DEAR OLD DAD
Beware the creeping changes

5. CREEPING, DISRUPTIVE CHANGE
1. Change happens slowly
2. Ignoring it doesn’t help
3. Most vulnerable when feeling
strong

6. aussiehome.com
2 guys, with no WA, real
estate, business or tech
experience…

7. MBA Graduation, March 1999

8. 8

9. 9

10. Business News
July 2010

11. TABLE QUESTION!!!
HOW is your industry
being disrupted?
Name 2 or 3 ways …

12. LET ME COUNT THE WAYS
Augmented Reality (AR). Virtual Reality
(VR). Machine Learning. Bots. Blockchain.
Sharing Economy. Artificial Intelligence
(AI). Autonomous Vehicles. Amazon…

13. LET ME COUNT THE WAYS
Augmented Reality (AR). Virtual Reality
(VR). Machine Learning. Bots. Blockchain.
Sharing Economy. Artificial Intelligence
(AI). Autonomous Vehicles. Amazon…

14. © Copyright International Leaders Pty Ltd
Which of these emerging technologies could
disrupt your industry?
Vote Now
1. AR
2. VR
3. AI
4. Bots
5. Blockchain
6. Autonomous Cars
7. Amazon
8. Other
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15. BUSINESS NEWS
DISRUPT THYSELF!

16. Ouch!
TRADITIONAL BUSINESS MODEL DISAPPEARS

18. RESULTS?
1. Traffic up x5
2. Subscribers renewed @ RECORD levels
3. Subscription Income became LARGEST
170,000
30,000
2013 2017
Unique Monthly
Visitors

19. TABLE QUESTION!!!
HOW could you
disrupt yourself?
(before someone else

20. DISRUPTION? ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVES!
• Change has always been the only
constant
• Disruption  Opportunities
• Every new tech job creates 5 other

21. MY THOUGHTS
• We’ve only just begun…
• Blockchain, Amazon, Bots, AI, aut’ms
cars
• But there will be HUGE opportunities

22. TABLE QUESTION!!!
List 2 or 3 things you
are going to do
different tomorrow…

23. Grants awarded (1/11/14 – 1/7/17)
Grants awarded
Australia: Innovation Commercialisation
• Accelerating Commercialisation”
• $484m federal program
• 242 grants totally $122.1m (Nov 2014 – July 2017)

24. Grant funding
• Competitive matched grant funding (1:1) up to $1 million
• Moving from prototype to commercial sales
• Can be a brand new startup or a new pre-revenue project
• Typically, 5-month process

25. Eligible projects
Early
investigation
and basic
research
Early
Commercialisation
and later stage
Technical Work
Full-scale
production and
certain marketing
activities
X
 X
Eligible Projects

26. Accelerating Commercialisation
https://www.business.gov.au/assistance/accelerating-commercialisation
Contact Centre: 13 28 46
Sheryl.Frame@ep.industry.gov.au 0402 213 409
Charles.Gunningham@industry.gov.au 0411 092 669
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