Is Australia’s brain being drained?
How can Australia and its business community combat the loss of local talent to overseas jobs? Is Australia really still an innovation nation? Is it our brain being drained? To be frank, the brain drain in Australia is a less significant phenomenon compared to the…
Hiring for growth: a specialist or a generalist?
The right employee is indispensable to your business’ success, so picking a winner is paramount to growth. It has always been this way. But what style of employee best suits your role and business? The Generalist or the Specialist? The Swiss army knife or the…
Strange uses for Artificial Intelligence
The bots are here, the bots are there, the bots are everywhere. AI has now been conjured from the depths of mid century sci-fi novels and is having a real impact on our businesses, products and the way we live our lives. Like it or…
3 tech trends set to influence business in 2018
The technology snowball keeps growing, the demand keeps skyrocketing, the capacity keeps expanding and technology’s impact on business will not soon abate. Since the industrial revolution and indeed eons beforehand, technology and human civilisation have moved in lockstep. As we continue to create and define…
Ancient Egyptians: the original bookkeepers!
Accounting, commerce and writing are commonly known to have the combined effect of giving birth to organised civilisation as we know it. Without the benefits of an advanced system of financial record keeping, modern and organised society would be simply unable to function. King Scorpion…
8 expansion tips for growing your business
Expand, grow, upscale, make bigger… Whatever you call it, we know what we mean, your business is cruising, it’s healthy but it’s looking kind of… puny? Your small business is making gains, making money and making a splash, so now is the time to brainstorm…
Bootstrap funding vs. Investment funding
This is a searing question for the trepidatious would-be entrepreneur about to ‘startup’ their first startup. It will change the very nature of the company, how much influence you have, how much capital you have and how it will grow – so it’s not something…
3 social entrepreneurs changing the world right now
We talk a lot about startups, young entrepreneurs and commercially successful businesses. While this is great, we completely overlook social entrepreneurs that aren’t here for the Forbes 500. They are not just interested in monetary investments and product creation, they are interested in positive social engineering….