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Incite was very pleased to sponsor the 2011 Premier's Western Sydney Exporter of the Year Award - not least as the core of our client base is located in that region!  

The finalists assembled last night for the award ceremony organised by the Australian Institute of Export. The room was full of the finalists -recognised as the best exporters in their class this year. 

The winner of the Western Sydney Exporter of the year was Cordina Chicken Farms - an Australian owned family business with 65 years experience in the Poultry business. The company exports a complete range of fresh chicken products, covering traditional areas of whole birds, fillets and pieces as well as an extensive range of further processed products to satisfy the increasingly ready to prepare food requirements of consumers.

Incite would like to congratulate Cordina Chicken Farms and indeed all the finalists and the winners of each category. Despite the fact this year has been particularly challenging for exporters all the finalists demonstrated the ability for innovative Australian companies to build sustainable export markets. 

See here http://www.flickr.com/photos/australianinstituteofexport/6265097090/in/photostream

 

At yesterdays quarterly Incite and Futuretrendsgroup  "Boost Innovation In Your Business" syndicate meeting Craig Rispin facilitated a stimulating discussion on how to build process into developing innovation in your business.
In making the process easy to start his message is don't concentrate on the areas where you know you're organisation is very strong as most likely you'll already have good innovation processes in those areas -but perhaps think of areas where you know you're organisation needs to do better.

To start the process think of the following areas:
Customer Engagement Experience: Is this all it could be in your organisation?
Product / Service development 
Technological Innovation 
Process Improvement
and perhaps we all agreed now the most important is Business Model Improvement.

Are you sure you now have the right business model for todays changing markets to achieve the results you want? Look at how many 'disruptive' new ideas have taken off in the last 5-10 years that have changed markets permanently -the iPhone /iPad- online shopping -virtual meetings to name a few.  Innovation can apply to all areas of your business for example take a look at the Kogan 'Live Pricing' innovation see here 
http://www.kogan.com.au/blog/2010/dec/2/kogan-liveprice-revolution-retail-transparency/    
 
In the realm of new ideas Craig argues quantity over quality counts so choose some of the Innovation topics from above that are important to your business  and make a plan to develop one new idea a month for the next 12 months.... would that boost the innovation in your business?

If you're interested in this program and would benefit from a 2 hour Incite and Futuretrendsgroup review of the process of innovation in your business see here for more information  http://www.incitemg.com.au/AnnouncementRetrieve.aspx?ID=35446