INNOVATIONS AND INSIGHTS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN A HIGH GROWTH START-UP IN THIS ARTICLE, JACQUES MARKGRAAFF, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AT LAVO, AND A SPEAKER AT THE 2021 NATIONAL CONFERENCE, EXPLAINS WHY HE ADVOCATES FOR A MORE ADAPTIVE APPROACH TO SOLVING COMPLEX PROBLEMS, WHILE DRIVING BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION.
We are arguably living in times of unprecedented change driven by major shifts in environmental, regulatory, technology and societal norms. This is all the more real for entrepreneurial enterprises and established incumbents alike faced with disruption. As a clean-tech start-up, LAVO aims to change the way people live with energy using world-first technology in the new hydrogen 6
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economy. In my role as Chief Operating Officer, I work across the value chain from research and development, product design and deployment through to corporate development, commercialisation, and operations. In my time in the business the need to think and act radically different as a small Agile team has become critical to our ongoing success.
FACTORS IN START-UP SUCCESS Like many start-ups, timing for us is everything. We have significant global market demand and need to urgently commercialise and release our technology. We’ve
