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Logan Merrick is a co-founder and strategic director of Buzinga App Development, Australia’s leading app development company building meaningful, game-changing apps for emerging tech businesses and innovative enterprises.
Logan started Buzinga in June 2012 with his co-founder Graham, spurred on by a passion for technology, customer service and workplace happiness that would make a huge impact in the global app development scene.
Logan’s creativity and drive for innovation, combined with Graham’s analytical, process driven approach to business, has taken Buzinga from a team of 8 people ‘incubating’ in Graham’s lounge room to a team of 30 powerhouse app development professionals.
Logan is an incredibly passionate and driven innovator who does things ‘hard and fast’. This philosophy has led to Buzinga’s phenomenal growth and reputation as leaders in delivering creative, high-quality mobile solutions that have a lasting impact.
Buzinga has had 2 apps hit #1 on the app store in the last 6 months, a $12million acquisition, been recognised in BRW’s Fast Starters of 2015, a finalist for Startup Smart’s Best Australian Startup, and is a finalist for Australia’s Coolest Tech Company.
Logan is a recognised speaker, mentor and investor in the tech community of Australia, specialising in mobile first strategy and design innovation. Logan has been working in the mobile space for over 5 years with direct involvement in over 150 projects. He directs the marketing and consulting functions of the business whist driving the strategy behind product development, user acquisition and customer engagement.
Topics Covered:
- Navigating growth: from 2 to 30 people in 4 years
- Technology Trends
- Healthtech
- The future of apps
- The role of augmented reality
- App development for corporates
- Health Apps
- Innovation and ideation for app development
- How to attract and retain top talent
- Employee engagement-
Facebook & Instagram v Snapchat v Whatsapp
- Living longer, eating differently and improving your quality of life
- Removing technology from your morning routine
- 14 day meditation retreats
Show Notes:
1) www.buzinga.com.au/ - Logan’s Company
2) www.georgeinstitute.org.au/ - The George Institute
3) www.linkedin.com/in/loganmerrick - Logan’s Linkedin
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Justin Lokitz is an experienced strategy consultant and business designer who is responsible for the Business Models Inc. office in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, CA USA. He supports organizations by getting teams to think broadly and expansively about their own strategies and business models. Using his power to connect-the-dots, Justin has an impressive ability to get organizations thinking like start-ups and industry disrupters. What’s more through his expert facilitation skills, Justin has a proven track record
of guiding organizations to ‘aha’ moments.
With 15+ years of experience of managing products and business model strategies for large, multi-national corporations, like Autodesk and Oracle, as well as small start-ups, Justin leverages his experience across a wide range of industry sectors to help large companies think, innovate and design more like start-ups, while helping start-ups find sustainable business models. Whether he is helping teams innovate, scale new products, or create sustainable strategies for the future, Justin does so by making strategy design
an engaging experience.
Justin holds a BA in Environmental Science and Geography,
from University of California Santa Barbara, a MBA in Design Strategy, from California College of the Arts, as well as professional certifications in software development and product management, from University of California Berkeley.
Topics Discussed:
- Design a better business book
- 20 different tools in the book
- Using the tools that suit your business
- Ideation tools
- Developing and writing a business book using design
thinking
- The challenges of getting companies to become innovative
- Becoming partners in business and speaking to your
customers
- The unwillingness of large companies to accept uncertainty
- Using reports and data in the right ways to back a
strategy
- Looking longterm and scaling
- Understanding your customers (Blog post link below)
Show Notes:
Business Models Inc - www.businessmodelsinc.com/connect/team/justin/
The Book - designabetterbusiness.com/
Justin's Linkedin - www.linkedin.com/in/jmlokitz
Justin's Twitter - twitter.com/jmlokitz
The book on Amazon - https://amzn.to/2DgkeT8
3 simples ways to understand your customers and win - designabetterbusiness.com/2016/05/12/3…ers-and-win/
Eric Ries' Longterm Stock Exchange - qz.com/704657/eric-ries-ltse…-term-stock-exchange/
Books mentioned by Steve:
Value Proposition Design - https://amzn.to/2pvEt5H
Business Model Generation - https://amzn.to/2De7mNl
Tools Mentioned:
Google Sprint methodology - developers.google.com/design-sprint/
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Summer Howarth is first and foremost a teacher with an unwavering belief in the potential of young adolescents and those who work in support of them. Summer has drive for and proven success in unleashing and spreading teacher led innovations and has been an instrumental leader in Australia’s contribution to the OECD work on Student Engagement and Australia’s TeachMeet movement. She’s deeply and unashamedly passionate and makes it her business to connect with anyone who pursues an interest in improving the life and learning outcomes of young people. Summer has worked in every corner of the education scene, from school to university and government, and holds a Paul Harris Fellowship for her services to Education.
In her role as National Director of Learning for Education Changemakers, Summer works with teachers, students and community leaders to solve our toughest education challenges, turning good schools into great ones. While the focus of her work is across Australia, Summer has also taught in the USA and worked with students, teachers and principals across the world. Former executive member of Adolescent Success, Summer is a sought-after advisor & facilitator but quite simply loves kids, teachers and the teaching profession, and works to make sure everyone else does too.
Topics Covered:
- Education Changemakers: Origins, Objectives and Initiatives
- Bottom up innovation in schools
- The impact of parents on the classroom
- The impact of School and leadership KPIs on innovation
- Teaching kids entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship as a form of youth validation and empowerment
- Finding and empowering great teachers
- Unleashing teacher led and student led innovation
- Open-sourcing classroom ideas and experiments
- The power of sharing and collaborating
- The education system and key stakeholders
- Social entrepreneurship
Show Notes:
1) Education Changemakers: educationchangemakers.com/
2 - Lemonade Stand: www.lemonadestand.rocks/
3 - Follow Summer on Twitter: twitter.com/EduSum
4 - EduChange Conference: http://www.educhange.com.au/
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Jenny Blake is motivation personified. She is a career and business strategist and international speaker who helps people move beyond burnout and create sustainable careers they love.
She is the author of the newly released book Pivot, and previously Life After College which was based on her blog of the same name) Jenny helps leaders, employees and entrepreneurs achieve greater clarity, engagement, fulfillment and impact.
Formerly, Jenny spent over 5 years at Google doing training, coaching and career development. During her time there she taught coaching best practices to Google executives all over the world as part of a global Career Guru program she helped create, later praised by CNNMoney in Google’s #2 Company to Work For acknowledgment.
She advocates looking at career as a smart phone, not a ladder (dynamic, customizable to each individual) and help employees and entrepreneurs “pivot before they leap” by finding further growth within their company or existing assets to avoid feeling like their only option is to quit.
Topics Covered:
Show Notes:
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Eric Almquist is a partner in Bain & Company’s Boston office. He is a leader in Bain's Advanced Analytics practice and a member of the firm’s global Customer Strategy & Marketing practice.
Eric has more than three decades of management consulting experience and delivers strategies that work for leading companies. He has led assignments in the financial services, telecommunications, internet, and electric utility industries. In addition, he uses his expertise in customer strategy and marketing to help clients to develop value propositions, improve customer experience and implement loyalty strategies.
Eric has contributed to such publications as the Harvard Business Review, Marketing Management, Journal of Brand Management and Design Management Journal. He was the recipient of a Social Science Research Council Foreign Area Fellowship and has served as a Trustee of the Marketing Science Institute.
Prior to joining Bain in 2007, Eric built extensive experience as a leader in the customer strategy sector where he founded one of the first comprehensive marketing science capabilities in the consulting
industry.
Eric earned a BA from Stanford University and MA and PhD degrees in anthropology from Boston University.
Topics Discussed:
- The 30 Elements of Value
- Customer jobs to be done
- Fundamental H-Symmetry Advancement
- Putting the hierarchy of needs to use
- Delivering on elements of value
- Customers expectations
- The impact of elements of value on CX and NPS Scores
- Using elements of value in ideation and product
development exercises
Show Notes:
1) Elements of Value - hbr.org/2016/09/the-elements-of-value
2) Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_…erarchy_of_needs
3) Karen Dillon Episode - http://futuresquared.xyz/podcast/episode-74-clayton-christensens-new-theory-with-karen-dillon
4) hbr.org/2001/10/boost-your-marketing-roi-with-experimental- design
5) hbr.org/webinar/2016/07/the-elements-of-value-measuring-what-consumers-really-want
6) Steve’s Shampoo - thankyou.co/bodyCare
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