Roger La Salle

Roger La Salle is the creator of the Matrix Thinking technique. He specialises in innovation, opportunity and business development, and speaks at international events on those topics. He is the author of four books, director and former CEO of the Innovation Centre of Victoria (INNOVIC) as well as a number of companies both in Australian and overseas.

The inside out of innovation

Some businesses seem to have the management mindset that they have thought of everything and that nobody could possibly tell them how to ‘suck eggs’. Complacency is a curse, as Roger La Salle finds out.

February 26, 2014

Intermediate

Finding opportunities to change

Embarking on change means taking on more work, and most of all risk. The incentive to take risks and engender change is virtually non-existent. Roger LaSalle wants this to change.

November 13, 2013

Change

How committed is your project team?

How can we have people working in a project team prove their commitment and, moreover, how can we put those people to the test? asks Roger LaSalle. It’s all down to planning and buy-in of the goals

October 16, 2013

The cost benefit of project team members

It is interesting that in many businesses the cost benefit of most employees can be accurately measured, writes Roger LaSalle. But what about project team members?

August 20, 2013

Cost

Do your innovation projects boost ROI?

Projects are about benefits. Consequently, decisions and new initiatives need to be implemented with a mindset of returning value to stakeholders, writes Roger La Salle.

April 15, 2013

Benefits Realisation

Finding opportunities from outside a project

Often those of us involved in a project are simply too close to daily issues to see the potential for real value-adding innovations and opportunities, writes Roger La Salle. Here’s how to find inspiration from outside a project.

December 5, 2012

Basic
Risk

Will a virtual office work for project managers?

Any reader familiar with the TV series hit ‘The Office’ (UK version) would notice people crouched over computer screens doing who knows what, but all very engaged. Roger La Salle says a virtual environment like this could lead to more productivity on your project.

November 7, 2012

Teamwork

Creating buy-in to develop innovation

In many organisations there are people that simply object to everything and resist change at every turn so how can we best implement innovation or value adding changes? Innovation expert Roger La Salle provides some advice on how to create buy-in in resistant environments.

August 1, 2012

Basic
Change