If there’s one thing that has proven to be in desperately short supply these past few months, it’s leadership. There simply aren’t enough thought leaders getting their voice out there and helping to supplement the guidance given by governments and other such authorities.

All around us COVID-19 is proving that traditional businesses are ready to begin permanently digitising. Hard times are ahead and no amount of staying the course and flattening the curve can change what the future holds for our business sectors throughout the world.

PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel is the author of the international bestseller “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.”

When we have conversations with people about Mindhive, they often try to understand us by reference to something they already know.

An interview with Inclusive Media professional and Mindhive member Lisa Cox – looking at what employers need to know about disability and employment.

A recent tweet by Rob Campbell (@Robertc1970), a Strategy Professional based in the UK, struck a chord with the Twitter-verse generating 4,900+ retweets and 22,000+ likes!

Mindhive development notes - "Get to the CHOPPER!”

Businesses around the world are starting to come to grips with the reality they now face as we march on towards the end of the year. There will be no great global economic resurgence or ‘beating of the virus’ in the short term, or perhaps even in the medium-to long-term either.

“When connected, collective intelligence starts to connect human intelligence and artificial intelligence, that’s where we start to see the most exciting stuff happen” Bruce Muirhead, CEO of Mindhive.

If we can crowdsource a bottle of wine to make it cheaper for the citizenry in Australia, why can't we crowdsource the intellectual capital in Australia to bring that to the problem in Australia. So the beginning of the technology was something of a ISP platform or crowdsourcing and crowdfunding type of idea.

Former Boston Consulting Group consultant and Harvard Business School Professor, the late great Clayton M. Christensen (1952–2020), first used the words ‘disruptive innovation’ in the mid-1990s when Google was just another search engine.

Even in an age of revolutionary medical science, COVID-19 has moved both rapidly and unforgivingly across the globe, taking lives and livelihoods with it along the way.

Although a divisive topic, to say the least, the gathering, buying, and selling of data has formed an industry with global staying power over the last few decades. Digital technology has allowed for the rapid expanse of data collection, making rudimentary pre-internet methods pale in comparison to the reach and staying power of even singular players in the data brokerage field.

Mindhive development notes - "Yippee-ki-yay!”

It’s an ominous time for start-ups as 2020 creeps towards its midpoint. As venture spending slows down, private funding cuts are costing new startups their chance at making a difference.

Mindhive is a collective intelligence platform that is free to use. With access to over nine thousand members contributing their experience and expertise, organisations like Austrade, QUT and Deloitte have surfaced unique insights through robust collective discussions.

As Coronavirus (COVID-19) worsens, there has been a surge in demand for collaboration tools. Mindhive provides online collaboration tools for organisations to bring together all parts of your network and staff together no matter where you are.

Before the world cures the latest COVID-19 threat, it must overcome two problems that have run rampant in times of disaster throughout all of recorded history.

Moving into a new decade, the technology around us continues to evolve and is not waiting for us to catch up. A new wave of networking has begun and it's through online collective movements in communities such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Mindhive.

In this new era of rapid and complex change, many believe it will be our ability to harness collective intelligence that will determine how successful we are as communities, organisations and a species.