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Previous Recipients - Medal for Innovation2011 - Jamie PherousJamie Pherous Jamie Pherous, CEO and Managing Director, founded Corporate Travel Management (CTM) in 1994. From a relatively modest start with himself and two staff, CTM became the largest privately-owned travel management company in Australia and, in late 2010, became successfully listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Jamie was also a major shareholder and co-founder of online hotel booking engine quickbeds.com.au which was sold to Flight Centre Group in 2003. Jamie was convinced that technology and the way people used it could be the differentiator to meet evolving needs in the corporate travel market. By using accounting methodologies and diagnostics to provide more accurate reports for corporate travel managers, regularly revising the application of technology to encompass the impact of mobile applications, and enhancing his team by retaining key people in the mergers undertaken, he has built a culture which embraced technology and service that differentiates CTM from competitors. The use of accounting diagnostics and methodologies has been successfully embedded as acquisitions were completed. The result is that revenue has grown from $16 million in FY2001 to a forecast in FY2011 of $491 million with 16 consecutive years of organic growth complemented by five successfully integrated acquisitions. 2010 - Tony EllwoodTony Ellwood Tony was named the 2010 Medal for Management Innovation recipient. Conferred by the AIM board and sponsored by Griffith University, the Medal celebrates a Queensland leader who has demonstrated unwavering commitment to business growth through management innovation. Appointed to his role in June 2007, Tony Ellwood is the Director of the Queensland Art Gallery. Tony previously held a number of senior roles at the NGV and in regional galleries in Victoria and Western Australia. He has been on numerous State and Commonwealth boards and was also on the selection committee for the 2003 and 2007 Venice Biennales. While the success of the Queensland Art Gallery is the result of many people's efforts, the assured leadership of the Director provides the environment in which innovation can flourish. Tony Ellwood has personified the ability to push the boundaries of creativity and a capacity to view management responsibilities as inclusive of innovation. Tony has sought to consolidate the Gallery's profile as a two-site institution while developing and promoting the strengths of each building's curatorial and programming focus to audiences. His ability to create the environment in which novel partnerships have supported significant international exhibitions exclusive to Queensland has increased the profile of the Gallery as a cultural tourism destination for local, intrastate, interstate and international visitors. These exhibitions, and the opening of the Gallery of Modern Art, have contributed significantly to the increasing recognition of Brisbane as an important cultural tourism destination. 2009 - Brett ClarkBrett Clark Pharmacist and eBusinessman Brett Clark was awarded the Griffith University Medal for Management Innovation at the 2009 Management Excellence Awards State Final and Gala Dinner. The co-founder and Managing Director of ePharmacy and Managing Partner of Chemist Warehouse QLD and Northern NSW was recognised for his innovation in creating a market leading e-business model for pharmaceuticals and cascading it into a diversified business portfolio. Starting his career as a pharmacist over 20 years ago, Mr Clark translated a single-site pharmacy business model into a highly successful online business unbound by traditional limitations of the pharmaceutical industry. Professor Michael Powell FAIM, Pro Vice Chancellor (Business) at Griffith University, said that Mr Clark has fostered innovation that positively impacts pharmaceutical customers Australia wide. The initial 'back of a napkin' business plan for ePharmacy centred on servicing customers in rural and remote areas who require medication for chronic illnesses on an ongoing basis. This market accounts for around 80% of all prescription sales in Australia, Professor Powell said. Brett displayed innovation in turning an idea into reality and creating an online business model drawing from his industry experience and understanding of customer behaviour. 2008 - Mark Pascoe FAIMMark Pascoe FAIM Under Mark's leadership, the International Water Centre (IWC) is known as a leader in promoting new ways of thinking about water management. The IWC consciously encourage people to acknowledge the multi-dimensional nature of future water challenges and the critical role culture, politics and society have in shaping solutions. Mark's work as CEO of IWC has brought global recognition for Queensland's commitment to innovative approaches to sustainability. 2007 - Maha SinnathambyDr Maha Sinnathamby An inspiring business visionary has been honoured for his innovative approach in creating a world-class, modern city that tackles the challenges of building a new community and socially uplifting an economically depressed region of South East Queensland. Chairman and Founder of Springfield Land Corporation, Dr Maha Sinnathamby, was awarded the coveted 2007 Fisher & Paykel Medal for Management Innovation at the 2007 Management Excellence Awards State Final. AIM Board Chairman John Hoey FAIM said Dr Sinnathamby was chosen for his long-held standards of management innovation, on which his businesses are built. Greater Springfield is a community-of-the-future success story and Dr Sinnathamby has received this award because of his uncompromising drive to incorporate leading edge management practices and new technologies at all stages of the development, Mr Hoey said. Dr Sinnathamby said he was humbled and honoured to receive such a great award from such an esteemed organisation as the Australian Institute of Management. Dr Sinnathamby purchased 2860 hectares of land just south of Goodna in 1992 for
$7.9 million. At the time, his master planned, technologically advanced, world
class community concept did not meet with universal acceptance, but his
passion, commitment and persistence to make his dream a reality, eventually
turned resistance around. 2006 - Deborah FlemingDeborah Fleming The visionary producer of one of TV's most acclaimed shows was awarded the 2006 Medal for Management Innovation at the Management Excellence Awards State Final. Ms Fleming accepted the Medal on behalf of the entire Australian Story team saying, "any achievement here is a collective one." It is especially gratifying to receive an acknowledgement like this from people who make a living in the cut and thrust of the commercial world, Ms Fleming said. When asked to create a credible and worthy current affairs show more than nine years ago, Deborah turned traditional thinking on its head. Dispensing with the reporter's presence and voice-over, she asked her journalists to focus on the human side of events and to tell the tale purely through the voices of interviewees… the result was Australian Story, an innovation in Australian television and a new journalistic genre. Deborah's work is an outstanding example of management innovation. All managers can learn from the manner in which she has taken a different perspective. She has led a team wisely and creatively and she has taken appropriate risk to create a change that adds value. 2005 - Mark HenryMark Henry Mark Henry founded Füritechnics in Brisbane, Australia, in 1996 to provide a vehicle for the commercialisation of his 'innovations for serious cooks'. As Managing Director, Mark took Füritechnics from foundation to its current multi-million dollar turnover, developing the products and marketing strategy that has established Füri as a leading professional brand in Australia and generated significant worldwide exports and recognition. The success of Füri knives and chefs accessories is based on their performance, after years of fundamental re-engineering. Mark takes old concepts and, with chefs, researches the real functions that cooks require to make their working life faster/easier/safer/cleaner. Mark consulted with Chefs to design the one-piece stainless steel alloy Füri knife range in the early 1990s: simply to solve problems professional Chefs had with traditional knives. After four years on the market, Füri become the leading brand in Australia, and is now regarded as the new standard in performance by many top Chefs around the world. 2004 - Graeme WoodGraeme Wood, wotif.com Wotif.com started when Graeme Wood was asked to identify a marketing strategy for a hotel client looking to fill vacant rooms without spending a fortune on promotion. By March 2000, the wotif.com site (then known as standbyaccom.com) was launched, under the financial support of Graeme and his fellow directors. The privately owned business allows customers to secure discounts of up to 60 per cent on rooms only available within 14 days. Whether you are travelling independently or booking for business purposes wotif.com's innovative flexibility allows 'just-in-time' accommodation solutions! Graeme has been awarded this medal because of his extremely innovative business practices and his ability to stand-out in a crowded market. 2003 - John StaintonJohn Stainton, Best Picture Show Company The Mastermind of the Crocodile Hunter phenomenon, John Stainton, has been awarded a prestigious management medal for his innovative business practice and its contribution to Queensland and Australian industry. Best Picture Show Company boss John Stainton, as producer, director and creator of the Crocodile Hunter series, featuring the Sunshine Coast's Steve and Terri Irwin, was awarded the 2003 QR Invitational Medal for Management Innovation. While in the United States filming a new Croc Hunter reality series, Mr Stainton was unable to accept his award in person but sent a video acceptance speech, featuring some previously unseen audition footage of a very young Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. I knew even then he had the qualities to be a superstar, Mr Stainton told the audience. I knew packaged right we had a very marketable product. The "overnight success" of the dynamic duo is the culmination of a 20-year strong partnership taking Steve Irwin from the crocodile traps of far north Queensland to the equally dangerous haunts of Hollywood. Australian Institute of Management CEO, Carolyn Barker, said Mr Stainton's long term vision, courage of conviction and willingness to take a calculated risk had seen the 'Croc Hunter' phenomenon reach a position of unmatched market dominance, reaching over 200 million people across 130 countries. John Stainton has been recognised for his ability to reconceptualise and forge new ground at the front end of his industry by moving away from the 'hands off', third party style of nature documentary, to a vivid and exhilarating approach that involves his viewers, Ms Barker said. The Brisbane-based Best Picture Show Company, run by Stainton and partner Judi Bailey, employs 6 people plus a range of contractors, and provides support work for production staff hot on the trail of Irwin's next project. We run our global business from Queensland because we have the world class facilities here to do it but because we also love living here, Mr Stainton said in his video acceptance speech. 2002 - Brett GodfreyBrett Godfrey, CEO, Virgin Airlines He researched the feasibility of the Virgin Blue concept with no more than $50,000 and information he could gain from the QANTAS and Australian Bureau of Statistics web sites. Virgin Blue provides no frills, affordable passenger and freight transportation services. Revenue is applied to the core business of keeping aircraft operating and moving passengers. Staff are trained in all areas of Virgin Blue operations. This enables ll staff members to ensure that Virgin Blue service is streamlined and not disrupted, i.e. cabin crew operate with ground staff until a plane is ready to board and ground crew cover for ill cabin crew on flights.
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