Business Incubator Series - ACU The Business Incubator Series is an eight-week in-depth learning program designed to help businesses and students in the ACU community develop practical skills in business - from establishment to growth.

TODAY: Week 4 of the ACU Co-Lab Business Incubator Series.

Adopt a growth hacking mindset and apply the tools that scale businesses faster.

With guest speaker AJ James.

Online | 4–6pm AEST

Still time to register.

#ACUColab #GrowthMindset #BusinessStrategy #DisruptorsCo

Business Incubator Series - ACU The Business Incubator Series is an eight-week in-depth learning program designed to help businesses and students in the ACU community develop practical skills in business - from establishment to growth.

AJ James, CEO and Chairperson of Trinity Consulting Services, has spent 20+ years helping businesses innovate and grow.

He joins us this week to share practical tools and strategies for growth hacking in a digital-first economy.

Don’t miss it.

Wednesday 17 Sept | 4–6pm AEST | Online

#Inno

Business Incubator Series - ACU The Business Incubator Series is an eight-week in-depth learning program designed to help businesses and students in the ACU community develop practical skills in business - from establishment to growth.

Pretty excited for this session! Growth doesn’t happen by accident.

In Week 4 of the ACU Co-Lab Business Incubator Series I'll be covering how to:

- Understand the growth hacking mindset
- Use innovative frameworks to drive and measure growth

Special guest - growth leader AJ James.

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Is Australia Getting R&D Wrong? Australia's R&D tax incentive may need rethinking to encourage innovation as it happens in commercial environments. Cites ABC story on Ingham Chicken v ATO.

What comes first in #innovation - chicken or egg? This is the question that Inghams is asking the ATO in open court.

What's at stake?

The research and development tax incentives that underpin much of the investment across the Australian innovation ecosystem.

Are we getting R&D wrong?

Are you ready to turn your business idea into reality with expert support?

Join a community of innovators every week from the comfort of your home.

Join our sessions each Wednesday

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The Best of Innovation and Collaboration

ACU’s Co-Lab was named as Australia's best Innovation and Collaboration Space of the Year. Join them for the Business Incubator webinar series each Wednesday from 27 August to 15 October 2025. The first session is on the Changing Shape of Business, and featu

From Hype to High Performance: What IBM’s CEO Report Tells Us About the Next Wave of AI Leadership - Disruptors Co IBM's CEO Report on AI shows priorities are shifting. CEOs need ROI, talent alignment, and scalable strategies. Here are four actionable strategies

Some great insights here for the C-suite.
It's not all AI-only.

Want to learn how your business is changing?

Hybrid workforces, ethical consumption, platform economies.

Session 1 of ACU’s Business Incubator Series takes a hard look at the trends shaping the next decade. Learn how to identify opportunities, spot threats, and set your business up for resilience.

Registration - ACU We're available 9am–5pm AEDT, Monday to Friday If you’ve got a question, our AskACU team has you covered. You can search FAQs, text us, email, live chat, call – whatever works for you.

Join the ACU Co-Lab - Business Incubator Series.

Business isn’t what it used to be.

Consumer expectations are shifting, AI is rewriting job roles, and purpose-driven models are gaining ground. Our first 2-hour webinar will unpack the biggest changes and give you tools to adapt your business model

Sometimes we second guess ourselves and never ask the question. But what if it could change everything?

At NASA, one bold question flipped the entire spacecraft design process—sparking a modular revolution.

We’re unearthing untold stories of purposeful innovation. Because real change starts when y

You know what it's like. You're in the zone, crafting a deck, pushing the pixels to the limit.

Meanwhile:
* the sun goes down
* your coffee goes cold
* you realize you're listening to Miley Cyrus on repeat

And all of a sudden, the sound of a nightclub wafts in from outside - and you still have a p

It’s not the headline in the report.

Nor the announcement in the company newsletter.

But this - this is where the real work happens.

Reconnecting the APIs that drop between data lake and report. Zapping the remapped fields in Salesforce no one remembered were there. Chasing the leads the teams ig

You’ve got 2 minutes to tell a 2-year story.

But you've lived every slide, every pivot.

To the founders and changemakers laying it all out

#weseeyou

You're raising capital between laundry loads.

Rewriting your pitch deck with a baby monitor on.

You're building something bold - in the in-between moments.

#WeSeeYou

Ever asked a question that changed everything?
At NASA, one bold question flipped the entire spacecraft design process—sparking a modular revolution.

We’re unearthing untold stories of purposeful innovation. Because real change starts when you #AskTheQuestion.
#InnovationOnPurpose #NASA #Innovation

Should Advertisers Rethink The ‘For Vs. Against’ Stance On Performance Max? Performance Max divides opinion. Some see results, others see risk. This post explores when it works, when it doesn't, and how to approach it strategically.

I'm not a huge fan - but PMax has its place.

Love meetings with investors where the conversation shifts from product to vision of the future. Now, we're diving into the power of language as a tool that can change our future.

Love it.

Synthetic data has its limits — why human-sourced data can help prevent AI model collapse With model degradation, AI development could stall, leaving AI systems unable to ingest new data and essentially becoming “stuck in time.”

AI models are becoming worse? Who would have expected such a thing? :)

The Truth About Musk, From His Biographer A viral Bluesky thread introduced tens of thousands around the world to a first glimpse of a forthcoming biography of Elon Musk. Here—in a single essay—is some of what the world just learned.

Here it is: my viral Bluesky thread significantly expanded into a full essay. Hope you will share it with anyone you think might be interested.

Some great insights on the state of #startup ecosystem in Australia #startupmuster

Friday afternoon.
It has been a long week.
Time for some music in the headphones