On the go

Post Davos Davos IdeasLab has been launched. Check out www.weforum.org/ideaslab for 23 world changing ideas by leading academics from around the world. The next 8 are in production: covering themes as varied as satellite technology and using robots to perform heart surgery. (Robotic snakes, in fact. Yes, you heard it here first.)

Podcasting Not podcasting right now, but the latest one is still on the homepage at www.Business21c.com.au. It's a great chat with Leadership expert Anthony Howard. He's just back from The Performance Theatre in Beijing. What did he learn?

Cybercrime feature filed. Looking forward to seeing it in BOSS Magazine soon.

On my mind

China Back from Dalian, China. What an amazing trip. The conference centre, about the size of Sydney airport was built in 8 months. They know how to get things done over there. As ever, The World Economic Forum put on a slick and sensational event. It's a thrill to be associated.

Risk remains the over arching theme running through so much of my work: business risk, evaluating risk, entrepreneurial risk, and then there are risks outside of our control, natural disasters and their knock on effects. The risks of poor business communication are an emerging theme, too.

Financial planning is a much under-rated industry. Who does an 85 year old widow turn to when she needs to work out what to do when her annuity runs out, for example?

On my map

Getting your message out How do you make your brilliant idea, or years of research, make sense outside your own lab? That's the question that so many academics and researchers face. After all, this is the TED era. Great thinkers and doers tell their life's work in 16 minutes to an audience who expects not just to learn but to to be taken on a complete emotional journey. We all need to know how to tell our story. That's what I am looking at with a number of organisations right now.

London 2012 is around the corner(ish) and it's not just elite athletes who should be in training. With 4 billion people tuning into the tv coverage, businesses are limbering up for the huge commercial opportunities.

Kirsten is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. Kirsten believes that the true communications revolution starts when you've got something to say and you make it worth listening to.