Business Disruption: Innovation

Recorded May 6 2020 Welcome to our Business Disruption webcasts, addressing key issues facing business owners during Covid-19. This episode will feature our CEO Steve Wait and an expert guest speaker Justin Hales. Justin Hales is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of innovative peer-to-peer caravan hire and caravan sharing community, Camplify. If you have a business problem or are looking for some practical advice and direction, email us at [email protected] or via businesscentre.com.au. Topics to be covered: The first is that crisis has two elements danger and opportunity The 2nd theme will be the economic theory of disruption The 3rd theme will be the concept of design thinking and understanding how your innovation, idea, product or service is best delivered to the market Who is Justin Hales? Justin Hales is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of innovative peer-to-peer caravan hire and caravan sharing community, Camplify. A locally-grown technology start-up, the idea for Camplify was born based on Justin's experience of family holidays as a child and was able to be launched due to the support of the Slingshot Accelerator Program, in conjunction with the NRMA. In only a few years, Justin has skilfully navigated the commercialisation journey of building a new product, recruiting a large team of talented people and raising enough capital to now dominate the Australian market and enter new markets overseas including Spain, France, the UK and New Zealand. Host: Steve Wait, CEO The Business Centre Guest: Justin Hales, CEO of Camplify Podcast producer: Newcastle Podcast Station Thanks for listening to the Business Big Bang Theory podcast. If you enjoyed our podcast today, please review and rate us through iTunes and follow and share on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn at The Business Centre businesscentre.com.au