“Quicklook” Assessment of Greater Adelaide's Assets & Challenges ...

NOTES FROM MEETING
Margaret Caust, Capitol City Project Team
(Margaret hosted the meeting with introduced participants) You can have excellence in
any one sector (but focus needs to be wider to get the bigger picture). There is a need
for coordination and people have been brought in from a range of areas to see where
there are gaps and are strengths.
Roseanne Healey, CEO of SA Great– SA Great was started by the media to act as a
catalyst and confidence driver for South Australia. It was done through television, paper
and combined media in order to leverage confidence and boost pride in South Australia.
They have gone to the effort to make it more project-based in the last four years and
have also put together events to boost confidence To show business people to get
more connectivity out of the region in terms of growth potential and working with the
world. It acts as a catalyst and facilitator to get information out to what people are doing
so people become proud. This is a membership-based organization that puts on events
and activities, going to the government and private sector while trying to be nonpolitical
(NOTE: there is a website for this organization at http://www.sagreat.com.au/)
Sue Filby, General Manager, City Assets
Works with hard infrastructure – commercial business aspects, car parks, golf, and
combination of council. Released a vision for Adelaide in last few years aimed at
doubling the cities population within the next ten years. Council likes to build
partnerships, stretching goals, capacity, vivacity, and audacity. Have big challenge
ahead.
Tony O’Malley, Consultant Business Development works with Business Vision 2010
Stated that essentially the purpose is leveraging people to take action in problems rather
than indulging. What can one observe in regions – remote regions in Australia forget the
distance with huge untapped high value tourism not tapped into at all. The business
community stops leading, and lets leadership of economic development fall to the
government. A major issue is - does the government need to be active in business
community taking risks and investing? On regional businesses in South Australian
contact with high value customers overseas. Why would they come all the way here?
What usually gets forgotten is end user. It is hard to keep track of changing needs of
end user. People with vision should not lose focus of keeping quality in products and
services.
Dave Gibson, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
In working with the IC2 Innovation Creativity and Capital the focus and objective is to
build wealth and share prosperity while building jobs.
Bill Anschutz
Auto and political background, worked with sister city committee, four years ago took an
assignment as champion for guidelines for good business practice project. He believes
there is a need to establish fundamentals and framework for business practice. Now
have strategic direction for people to improve. Benchmarking system would be of
interest to compare business across world, and putting this online. Want to have this
ready for World Congress on IT in March. There is a need to understand leveraging,
because if one wants to survive in business, one had better be good.
John Hunt, MSSTC Graduate Student from the University of Adelaide
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