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Tony Abbott has unveiled his new $400 million policy blueprint to bolster industry performance, enhance competition, drive business innovation and better harness the commercial and economic potential of the scientific and research community.
A new Productivity Commission report has found the cost of doing business in the Australian retail sector is inflated by inefficient red tape and a number of anti-competitive restrictions.
An ASIC report has been analysed by commercial credit reporting bureau CreditorWatch, and the findings have identified key learnings that may benefit SMEs and business owners.
Have you ever viewed a product on Amazon, and then been amazed at how that product seemed to ‘follow’ you as you went around the web?
Conducting an exit interview or meeting can be easy and has potential to deliver great value to your business for future employees. Here are the steps we recommend you follow in conducting an exit interview.
Old lines like ‘money makes the world go round’ aren’t bandied about for no good reason.
Whatever the size of your business, if you want to get ahead, enjoy good growth and drive your business forward, it’s important that you hire great leaders.
Inefficiency, wasted time and effort, stretched to capacity – even just reading these words gives most businesses a bad feeling. For most companies, a smoothly running IT infrastructure is a critical business requirement.
With the franchise industry contributing an estimated $131 billion to the Australian economy, it is fast becoming a mature sector with many small to medium scale businesses utilising a franchise model as one of their key strategies for growth.
There is a lot of advice for succeeding in business and if you tried to follow all of it chances are you would run yourself into the ground.
In 2013, Google commissioned a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) research to identify ways to accelerate the growth of Australian tech startup sector. The research found that this sector has the potential to contribute $109 billion or 4% of GDP to the economy.
As small business numbers increase and more entrepreneurs look for capital, a growing amount of organisations claiming to be affiliated with the Government are looking to take your money.
The list reads the same: sleepless nights, hairpin emotional trigger, eating or drinking too much (or not enough). The only difference, is that it’s your business partner.
It’s the type of business issue that causes insidious damage, yet is so easily fixed when recognised.
The agricultural industry and farmer groups don’t believe the proposed voluntary Food and Grocery Code of Conduct will be enough to protect their interests against the might of the supermarket duopoly.
Starting out as a boutique makeup brush brand 12 years ago, the chance meeting between an Australian entrepreneur and a makeup artist in London preceded the complete transformation of an Australian brand.
Five years ago when Canada hosted the G20, Toronto-based Farah Mohamed, the President & CEO of the G(irls)20 Summit, was determined to see her then brand new idea be a success.
The whole reason I studied journalism, and indeed wanted to be a journalist, was so I could change the world.
Waiting for my flight to Texas on Saturday for the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network conference (DWEN), I was informed that someone’s luggage had been sucked into the engine (!!!) and the flight was cancelled.
Despite the paperless world in which we now supposedly live, ticketing has long defied innovation.
