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Start-up accelerators, incubators, and mentors are epic fails

September 4, 2017 | Ajeet Khurana
Experienced Indian angel investor, advisor and mentor Ajeet Khurana makes harsh criticisms and valuable observations which resonate in Australasian markets… read more...
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The participation trophy myth: The real secrets to managing millennials

August 23, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton
Hiring staff between now and 2030? here’s what you need to know… read more...
ERP Just do it

‘This is a terrible time to buy ERP’

August 3, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
Hold on to those purse strings, says ERP expert… read more...
Office messaging tools

Attention Slackers: Don’t expect privacy around the digital watercooler

July 27, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton
Report charts rise of office messaging tools, reveals troubling privacy assumptions… read more...

Digitisation could deliver big buzz for beekeepers

July 13, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
Spatial intelligence and more seeks sweet spot with honey producers… read more...
Sexual harassment

Silicon Valley’s sexual harassment epidemic

July 11, 2017 | Jonathan Cotton
We chew over the recent wave of sexual harassment complaints coming out of the centre of the tech universe… read more...
Cloud-vs-on-premise ERP

Why the death of on-premise ERP is greatly exaggerated

June 7, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
It’s curtains for on premise ERP software, right? Not quite; the situation is a little more nuanced… read more...
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JUCY: How a platform approach drives digital transformation

May 1, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
Business innovator takes a ‘whole of stack’ approach to its use of Microsoft technology… read more...
women in tech

‘When I grow up I want to work in IT’

April 5, 2017 | Angela Barnett
Said the young girl never… read more...
myob and Greentree journey

Dropping in on MYOB’s journey upmarket

March 30, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
It has been a busy time for MYOB, the onetime provider of the most popular accounting package in New Zealand and Australia… read more...
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‘Democratised data’ drives customer awareness

March 10, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
Customers expect to engage and receive resolution for issues from any device, anytime and anywhere… read more...
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Field service at the sharp end of digital transformation

March 3, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
Doing the same thing again and expecting a different result is, apparently, at least one definition of insanity… read more...
technology in schools

Technology no panacea in delivering education

February 27, 2017 | Anthony Caruana
Much has been said about the use of technology in schools, writes Anthony Caruana, but some principles just don’t change… read more...
Amazon Go

Automation and the death of work

February 1, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
The end of the world will arrive through sheer indolence… read more...
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Chatbots hit the perfect pitch

January 26, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
With bots taking over the world, isn’t it a good thing they are so friendly… read more...
automatic data science

Data science gets automated, but the devil is still in the detail

January 18, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
More than 40 percent of data science tasks will be automated by 2020 reckons Gartner… read more...
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Patterns in toast: How algorithms make machine learning work

January 5, 2017 | Donovan Jackson
Ever seen Jesus in a piece of toast? How algorithms and machine learning mimic the mind… read more...
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Digital transformation and the practice of law

December 24, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Here’s a transformation for you. Instead of scribbled bits of paper into a jar for Christmas suggestions, how about a digital version… read more...
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The subscription gig gets new tooling

December 12, 2016 | Anthony Caruana
The complexities of selling ‘as-a-service’ has driven a new category of software – the subscription billing engine… read more...
Machine learning and AI

Why hype is necessary to drive big data, analytics and AI

November 14, 2016 | Donovan Jackson
Analytics, business intelligence, machine learning and artificial intelligence are all ‘exciting’ aspects of the technology industry… read more...
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