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  • Feature Measuring your boards performance

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2009

    Charles Beelaerts investigates how boards can get the best out of their performance reviews – and whether the financial crisis is affecting how these are done. Measuring your board’s performance The need to undertake board reviews is not new. In 2003, the Australian Securities Exchange s...

  • Submission to Inquiry into the governance of NSW universities

    Content Type: Policy Submission

    18 Feb 2009

    NSW Inquiry into University Governance

  • Government Sector

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Nov 2006

    Many government enterprises are now operating in competitive business environments. As Kevin Forde discovered, in order to survive they have had to change their public service mentality, retrain their staff, and get closer to their customers. Breaking down bureaucracy If you read the annual re...

  • Getting down to business

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Sep 2006

    Directors need to ensure that money spent on marketing is a research-based investment giving high returns – not a money-losing exercise in creative wishful thinking. Kevin Forde gives some suggestions on how to improve your marketing outcomes. Magic and metrics Marke...

  • Board evaluation

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Aug 2006

    St James Ethics Centre is currently undertaking a review of the performance of its board. One of the aims is to get an outsider’s opinion on both past board performance and the risks facing the organisation in the future. Kevin Forde outlines how this will happen. Evaluating a not-for-profi...

  • Perspective

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jul 2006

    Mark Jones and Richard Leblanc believe that with Australian companies shifting corporate governance focus from conformance to performance, human chemistry is a key driver influencing the effectiveness of boards. Human chemistry and independent assessment drive board performance Boards need hig...

  • boardroom unity a fraction too much friction

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Jan 2006

      A fraction too much friction A lot can be said for the productivity and results generated by healthy board bonding. So how do you create an environment of unity around the table – without eroding the independent views of directors? Helen McCombie writes. There can be no greater example of boa...

  • the members voice

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Nov 2005

    The members’ voice   An outline of some of the issues addressed by AICD’s policy department, committees and taskforces over the past month follows:   Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe AICD’s submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services endorsed th...

  • the wisdom of the winner

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 Nov 2005

    The Wisdom of a Winner   Lynette Glendinning’s passion for working with boards and directors on complex and diverse issues and developing successful outcomes has turned into a very successful business as Derek Parker reports   ‘Working with people and getting people to work together to sha...

  • CEO Report Boards that work AICD Review

    Content Type: CDM Article

    01 May 2004

    It has become a habit of late to proclaim new rules of corporate governance rather in the manner of Moses and the Ten Commandments – without analysis to show how the prescriptions will solve the problems that led to calls for something to be done. CEO Report Boards that work It has become a hab...

  • Director's Signpost

    Content Type: General

    This page is for purchasing the print version of Director's Signpost. To access the digital version (free for members, $45 for non-members) click here.   "Being good at whatever you did before doesn't mean you will automatically be a good director. You have to be prepared to...

  • Chairman of the Board 2nd Edition

    Content Type: General

      For chairman across Australia: “ In recognition that chairmanship is now such a vital role – not only to each entity with a board but to Australia’s economy – the chairman’s position description now reads like a rather demanding full-time role.” David Crawford AO FAICD The role...