About
I'm an Australian-based strategist with expertise in foresight, disruptive innovation and M&A intelligence in the digital media, financial and government sectors.
Academic qualifications include an MSc. in Strategic Foresight (2004), an MA in Counterterrorism Studies (2006), and training in IT systems and project management.
Digital media experience includes contributing editor to the influential science and culture magazine 21C (1996 - 1998) and editor of the US news site Disinformation (November 1999 - February 2008) including two Webby Award nominations.
Major project experience includes research on Internet futures for the Smart Internet CRC consortium (December 2003 - March 2007), which included bid support for the Smart Services CRC, and administrative support for Swinburne University's 'whole-of-institution' audit by the Australian Universities Quality Agency (March 2007 - June 2008).
I'm a member of the Project Management Institute and the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.
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• Body of Work: a growing archive of academic essays, business reports, media articles, early blogs, presentations & research papers
Earlier Projects
• Disinformation: I was site editor of the US-based subculture site from November 1999 to February 2008 in 3 iterations: the classic 'webzine' era, 'day's best links' and the transition in October 2007 to a user-moderated publishing version based on the Digg publishing engine. Publishers Weekly named the New York City based firm The Disinformation Company as the 'fastest growing US independent publisher' in a 6th March 2006 cover-story. RSS feeds for Alex Burns, All, Published and Unpublished stories.
