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Roger La Salle

Roger La Salle is a qualified professional engineer and business & marketing graduate who is passionate about innovation and is known the world over for his innovation teachings, IP and product development. His inventions are numerous with two on display in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and another in Melbourne’s Scienceworks museum. Roger is a past Chair of Innovation at The Queens University in Belfast, a former CEO and present Director of the Victorian Innovation Center (INNOVIC) and former panellist on the ABC television show “The New Inventors”. Roger developed Matrix Thinking in 1999 as a simple way of inspiring innovation. Matrix Thinking is now licensed in more than twenty countries and has delivered breakthrough outcomes in every imaginable industry including research, banking, insurance, chemistry, food, packaging, telecoms, safety and aviation.

From the author

Beware the NDA

A detailed look at the potential flaws in an NDA, and how they might be ironed out.
innovation, digital

Avoid the big business trap!

Demand innovation - the alternative may ultimately be oblivion!
Innovators, innovation

Is innovation really that risky?

If we embrace innovation as the “Change that adds Value”, then risk can be mitigated if not entirely removed.

Is it time to “re-question” nuclear energy?

The safety of nuclear plants has always considered to be a problem, so too the disposal of waste, but with an estimated ...

The IT “dilemma”

The classic paradox that IT designers face as they design intelligent machines able to make “reasoned” decisions and ult...
good idea, great idea

The problem with the Open Innovation model

The problem some may have with Open Innovation model may be borne out of the "not invented here syndrome",
branding, personal brand, employer brand

The mystical power of “brand”

Brand is vital - protect it carefully and make sure that every customer experience is a good one.

Bonuses – a good ideal?

Bonuses can incentivise better performance of a business, but how much should they be and in what manner should they be ...
campaign

Don’t be fooled by the changing landscape

Don’t be fooled into thinking that blasting on social media is necessarily money well spent.

Too quick to protect those patents?

Contrary to popular opinion, a patent does not protect an idea, but rather the particular way a problem has been solved.