Opinion

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.

With energy prices steadily rising over the past decade it has never been more important for businesses to be aware of their electrical usage.

The word burnout is one that is sadly becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s society when it comes to small business owners.

I continually remain perplexed by the number of people in Australia, and especially those within the business community, that are still not familiar with the meaning of the term ‘intrapreneurship’.

In a single day, there is so much idle chit-chat and wasted words thrown about, then when something cuts through, suddenly one’s ears prick.

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’s no question that social media is here to stay, the only question is whether or not your business is taking advantage of these global networks.

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.

$10 billion a year: the amount Age Discrimination Commissioner Susan Ryan says age discrimination is costing the economy every year.

Did you know that annually, businesses typically spend an average of $1,900 to own, run and upgrade each PC in the office?

It used to really bother me when my mother would tell me to ‘count sheep’ when I couldn’t sleep as a child. It was never the answer I was looking for, which of course, was “Alright, you can stay up for another hour”.

Many entrepreneurs and businesses aim for the largest possible customer base, focused on seeing a strong return based on everyday consumers, but could aiming for wealthy customers be the way to go for SMEs?

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.

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.

The impending release of the iPhone 6 (still over a week away) has already attracted disciples out the front of Sydney’s Apple store.

The idea that criminals can hijack your computer content and use encryption to hold your data to ransom is worrying, but there is another, positive side to the technology that rarely gets mentioned.