Entrepreneurship blog

What is driving innovation in Financial Technology?

by Janet Sernack|13 January 201730 May 2019|Culture blog, Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation consulting blog

Despite the banks (or perhaps, because of them) FinTech (financial technology) is on the rise in Australia. After all, more than half of Australian SMEs have a loan facility of some description, and only 30% are completely debt-free. It’s easy...

Three forces disrupting business as usual!

by Janet Sernack|21 December 201430 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation consulting blog

I recently participated in the Disruptive Innovation Festival (check it out, at http://thinkdif.co) where I presented an exciting new webinar on "How the lean start-up is disrupting business as usual" introducing the notion of start-up entrepreneurship. Whenever I design a...

Keys to entrepreneurial success

by Janet Sernack|03 September 201430 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Intrapreneurship blog

I am not sure how many of my valued ImagineNation™ community friends and colleagues have ever purchased a completely new, “make believe” apartment “off the plan?” Nor am I aware of any who have attempted such a huge challenge in...

Why embracing disruption facilitates success

by Janet Sernack|01 July 201430 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation consulting blog

Embracing disruption facilitates success no matter what industry or business game innovators or entrepreneurs play in. As an impressionable young girl, I used to greet my father when he arrived home from work, by asking “How many coats did you...

What motivates entrepreneurs to innovate?

by Janet Sernack|03 June 201430 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Intrapreneurship blog

I have just commenced facilitating the latest Coach for Innovators Certified Program with an amazingly diverse and enthusiastic group of mostly female consultants, academics, facilitators, coaches and start-up entrepreneurs. As I started the program, I found myself being quickly brought...

Surviving the innovation roller-coaster

by Janet Sernack|10 December 201318 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Intrapreneurship blog

I am pleased to be back in unseasonably freezing cold Israel after more than nine weeks of constant traveling along the global innovation superhighway! I spent my time focusing on learning, making distinctions, developing The Start-Up Game™ business, catching up...

Entrepreneurship isn’t learnt at business school!

by Janet Sernack|09 October 201318 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Intrapreneurship blog

It takes enormous passion, deep vision and incredible anti fragility for successful entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship to occur, more than most of us could ever imagine! My recent experience at the recent European Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference in Brussels, last month...

How the lean start-up accelerates innovation!

by Janet Sernack|02 September 201310 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Intrapreneurship blog

In another 2 weeks I will be presenting my webinar How the lean start-up accelerates innovation' at the Global Women’s Leadership Summit (GWALS). Immediately after that I will be in Brussels to present my paper on Re-inventing entrepreneurship education at the...

Entering the dragons den!

by Janet Sernack|29 July 201310 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Intrapreneurship blog

The World Economic Forum Global Education Initiative in June 2011 published the Entrepreneurship Education Work Stream Report; Unlocking entrepreneurial capabilities to meet the global challenges of the 21st century. The report states that: “Society faces a strong need to encourage people...

Can entrepreneurs create the new world?

by Janet Sernack|30 June 201310 June 2019|Entrepreneurship blog, Intrapreneurship blog

The Economist Magazine, in a recent article, "Generation Jobless" analyzed figures provided by the International Labor Organization, the OECD, and the World Bank Database, and calculated that, “all told, almost 290 million (15 – 24 year olds) are neither working,...

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