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News and interviews on Australian institute including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
Slow rate of commercialisation undermining R&D: reportWednesday, 08 December 2010
Australia's innovative nature is being stifled by its poor commercialisation rate, according to a new report from the Australian Institute for Commercialisation. ...
Company directors face excessive personal liability burden in most states: Report
Monday, 06 December 2010
A new report from the Australian Institute of Company Directors has found most Australian states have failed to reduce the personal liability burden faced by directors and has warned that businesses could start to flee poor-performing states such as Queensland ...
Why it’s time to look at quotas for female directors: Kohler
Monday, 06 December 2010
The debate about mandatory quotas for the number of female company directors has heated up again with comments from Heather Ridout and Elizabeth Proust. Both said they used to be against quotas, but now they are in favour of them. ...
Ready, set, go: coaching the entrepreneur
Monday, 06 December 2010
Entrepreneurs are some of the most challenging yet rewarding clients a professional coach may attract. They possess unique traits and if understood and appreciated can make for the most rewarding coach/client relationship. Many coaches fail to appreciate the ...
Meeting malaise
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
There's great new survey out today from the Victorian branch of the Australian Institute of Management, looking at a myriad of issues around employee engagement. ...
Entrepreneurs as leaders: How to create impact
Monday, 29 November 2010
Let's be clear – you are a business leader. So, as CEO of your business you are responsible for three key areas: strategy, team building and business development. ...
It’s more than a game
Monday, 22 November 2010
Every year in AFL football, coaches venture overseas to study the latest trends in sports science, sports psychology and elite performance. Anything to give them an edge. ...
Exporters welcome free trade zone discussions but warn industry still under pressure
Monday, 15 November 2010
Exporters have welcomed talks of new trade agreements coming out of the APEC summit in Japan but suggest longer-term problems such as the high Australian dollar will continue to keep businesses under pressure. ...
Permission to fail
Monday, 15 November 2010
In a highly competitive environment success is paramount. Right from our early education we are indoctrinated to pass exams or suffer the indignity of failure. Promotions are awarded on merit. It's all very quantifiable, vey clinical. We are educated by rote ...
Start counting
Monday, 08 November 2010
The one thing that will propel your business forward immediately is benchmarking your performance. You don't need elaborate balanced scorecards. You don't even need industry benchmarks or external measures of success. Just start counting stuff. ...
Exporters warned to target new markers and cut costs immediately as dollar hits 28-year high
Thursday, 04 November 2010
Exporters are being urged to quickly find new regions to trade with Australian dollars and examine as many cost-cutting measures as possible, with the dollar hitting a 28-year high overnight and remaining above parity. ...
Directors spooked by personal liability laws
Tuesday, 02 November 2010
Laws that place personal liability on company directors are hampering business decision-making and could even be depriving start-ups of leadership, according to a new report. ...
Find the joy in your work
Monday, 01 November 2010
Time is the only truly non-renewable resource. You can hire and replace people. You can make and lose money. You can invest and divest assets but once a unit of time has gone it's gone forever. Pay people for their time and they'll work for your money, inspire ...
Study says sick employers should stay home or risk bringing their workplace down
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Business owners must make it a priority to set an example for employees when they fall sick by seeing a doctor as soon as possible, the Australia Institute has warned. ...
Billabong profit warning and job cuts at Thales underline real impacts of strong Australian dollar
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Exporters warn the strong Australian dollar is now beginning to have a real impact on business, with surfwear retailer Billabong announcing a 4.5% drop in profit and Bendigo engineering group Thales Australia cutting 100 jobs due to the high Australian dollar. ...
20/20 vision in business
Monday, 25 October 2010
One of the most important aspects of business leadership is the creation of a strategic vision for the business. Rapid technological change, increasing complexity of the business landscape, global economic factors outside your control all contribute to create ...
How you can handle iPhone security in your business
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Businesses must ensure their workers using iPhones connect to the company's IT security network and do not install unofficial software that could introduce malware into the system, one expert has warned. ...
How to get the best out of your people
Monday, 18 October 2010
The traditional approach to getting the best out of your staff is to prepare functional specifications of the job role and then fill it. And for larger institutions this organisational strategy has been tried and tested for many years. Yet I wonder about this ...
The CEO scorecard
Monday, 11 October 2010
In a previous blog I suggested that CEO's have a performance scorecard. In fact, not just the CEO but all roles should be defined and have performance metrics, or scorecards. ...
Exporters call for Government to boost Export Market Development Group as dollar nears parity with US
Monday, 11 October 2010
Exporters and grant experts are calling for the Federal Government to increase the amount available for businesses under the export market development grant, as SMEs struggle under the increasing value of the Australian dollar. ...
