The Wild Duck Collective
Management Consulting - Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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The Wild Duck Collective Details
The Wild Duck Collective is a group of like-minded and highly experienced technology leaders who have joined together to deliver superior client experiences in manufacturing renewal and product development.Our members have extensive experience from technology development, invention, IP protection, R&D, design, manufacture, QA, marketing, sales and customer engagement.All have demonstrated capability in international product leadership across a wide range of sectors including medical devices, health, software, instrumentation, electronics, mechanics, manufacturing, mining, utilities, and clothing.Each of our members has at least 25 years experience in the leadership and sustainability of both local and global businesses.So why "The Wild Duck Collective" ?Danish Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard famously told a long story about wild ducks and the moral of his story was that you can tame a wild duck but you can never make a tame duck wild again - his implication was that tamed ducks go nowhere - not even south for the winter !Humanizing this moral - happy, entrenched corporate employees lose the incentive for the innovative, "out-of-the-box" thinking, that is sorely needed to lead their organization to newer and greater things.Back in the early seventies, IBM expanded on this theme and referred to wild ducks as "innovators, creators, probers and eccentrics - those people needed to drive, stimulate and challenge large organizations"Hence why we formed "The Wild Duck Collective", a group dedicated to the conservation and effective utility of that rare species of individual, The Wild Duck !By the way, we also actively mentor and train others to protect their "wild ducks", i.e. to create an environment that fosters innovation and growth in their enterprise.
