This past year forced incredible change on businesses in a short time, with organisations needing to adapt and pivot quickly to keep pace. This forced adaptation accelerated many current trends – some by three to five years, according to a global McKinsey executive study – while simultaneously causing new ones to emerge. In a recent nbn webinar ‘Digital Transformation in a… Read more »
Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot would have to change its gait to handle different surfaces. Generally, we humans and most robots can only change how… Read more »
There are many things we take for granted, simply because they are as they have always been. When we think about innovation, we can broadly say that industries in which consumers have strong opinions innovate faster. For you to have a strong opinion on something, you need to have a base level of understanding to… Read more »
Last year, as everyone dealt with working from home, we launched a new series looking at the joy people find in the WFH experience. And just as it looked like everyone was heading back into the office, Victoria has put plans to ramp up to 75% office capacity because of a hotel quarantine infection on… Read more »
For millions of Australians, it’s been nearly eight months since remote working became a reality for the first time ever. For us at Car Next Door, remote working has been the norm for a year. In March 2020, when lockdown seemed unlikely to go on for more than a few weeks, there were plenty of… Read more »
Every Friday, our new weekly column talks to CEOs, founders and tech leaders about the benefits they’ve discovered from WFH in 2020. This week it’s Rimal Gokani, co-CEO of Melbourne fintech Assembly Payments. Here are the six things that spark joy about Rimal’s home office life – and tune into the Startup Daily show on… Read more »
Breaking news this week is Salesforce’s US$27.7 billion mega-offer to buy Slack. It’s a strong signal about the future of work where enterprise software powers all-digital, work-from-anywhere teams to co-create and collaborate. At Mindhive, we share this vision of collaborative intelligence, reduced complexity, increased power and flexibility, and ultimately a greater degree of organisational agency… Read more »
Every Friday, our new weekly column talks to CEOs, founders and tech leaders about the benefits they’ve discovered from WFH in 2020. This week it’s Brisbane fintech developer Brodie Haupt, CEO and co-founder of WLTH and Properlytics, a proptech platform for property owners to keep track of the value of their investments. It’s no surprise that… Read more »
Australian companies face five key barriers to unlocking value in innovation in a new report from the CSIRO. Talking to private and public sector leaders, the Value of science and technology report by the CSIRO Futures team, identified a range of issues, including declining investment in innovation – despite the push into tackling Covid-19 in 2020… Read more »
Every Friday, our new weekly column talks to CEOs, founders and tech leaders about the benefits they’ve discovered from WFH in 2020. This week it’s Joel Thomson. co-founder of presentation platform LivePreso (recently rebranded from SalesPreso). Thomson says he’s been working in tech (in one form or another) for almost 20 years. “That’s 20 years… Read more »
Every Friday, our new weekly column talks to CEOs, founders and tech leaders about the benefits they’ve discovered from WFH in 2020. This week it’s Mario Hasanakos. co-founder of fintech Spriggy, the pocket money app and card that gives kids financial wisdom and independence, alongside parental oversight. “Covid-19 has put an enormous strain on so… Read more »
Welcome to our new weekly column, where we talk to CEOs, founders and tech leaders about the benefits they’ve discovered from WFH in 2020. We kick off the series with former Xero boss and investor Chris Ridd, who chairs healthtech startup MedAdvisor, and likes to jump on his rowing machine between meetings when he’s not… Read more »
Australia’s economy grew by an additional $126 billion, or 6.5%, during 2019 in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) thanks to productivity gains provided by the digital technology, according to a new report by Deloitte Access Economics. The annual ACS Australia’s Digital Pulse report, prepared by Deloitte for IT professionals association ACS, found that growth… Read more »
What new HR policy do some of the world’s most influential companies have in common? In the year of Covid-19’s ‘Great Lockdown’, you’ve probably guessed correctly: remote-first working. Twitter, Square, Atlassian, Slack and Shopify are among a slew of companies transitioning to become remote-first workplaces; this means they are allowing their employees to work from… Read more »
I recently sat down for a Slack Sessions virtual panel with Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack, and Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO of Atlassian, to discuss what they’ve learnt this year. Their organisations, along with many others around the world, have dealt with the lightning speed transition to remote work. Stewart and Mike have unique perspectives on… Read more »
Milkrun, the last local grocery delivery standing, is still trying to find fresh capital after raising $75 million
Logistics giant Wisetech Global just gobbled up another tech startup for $327 million
Employee wellbeing startup Foremind raises $200,000 for construction industry mental health support
Queensland edtech unicorn Go1 gobbles up UK rival Anders Pink
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