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CDM Article
01 Dec 2008
Tough staffing decisions may have to be made in 2009.
Kevin Chandler
provides some tips on how to survive them.
When the axe drops
Earlier this month, the Finance Sector Union predicted that up to 10,000 jobs could be lost in the next 12 to 18 months. Many of these jobs will be in middle...
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CDM Article
01 Nov 2008
Brand Hoff has experienced all the stages of business, from founding a start up company to taking up a top seat as a chairman. Here, he chats to
Zilla Efrat
about this journey and what helped him along the way.
Building a tower
Completing AICD’s Company Di...
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CDM Article
01 Oct 2008
Dale Budd
outlined the challenges and opportunities confronting public sector governance at a recent seminar in Canberra. This is an abridged version of his speech.
The governance of government
Directors of public sector agencies and businesses often have a difficult role to play in ...
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CDM Article
01 Sep 2008
If you’re not riding the wave of change into the 21st century, you’ll find yourself drowning beneath it.
Di Worrall
provides five mindsets that will help keep your organisation’s head above water.
Habits for business success
As we pull out from the information age and into a new ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2008
Ken Moss
discussed the role that power and authority play in a board’s relationship with its CEO at a recent AICD lunch in Perth. Here’s an excerpt of what he had to say.
Power and authority in the boardroomMany political figures have hung onto power for perhaps too long, including the li...
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CDM Article
01 Jul 2008
Anne Lampe
reports on how directors can ensure their organisations are insulated from the risks that come their way as market conditions continue to toughen.
Future proofing your business
Until this year, almost a decade of consistent economic growth has allowed Australian management tea...
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CDM Article
01 Apr 2008
Ric Hallgren
provides some pointers on how to plan for the environmental tsunami heading the way of your business.
Riding the tsunami
Much has been written about the macro issues to do with what seems like an impending tsunami of environmental business impacts, threatening to overwhelm b...
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CDM Article
01 Apr 2008
With grey clouds rapidly gathering on the economic horizon,
Domini Stuart
provides some tips on how to weather the storms they carry.
Battening down the hatches
The heat is on. Fallout from the US subprime crisis has brought an end to an unprecedented period of prosperity and gro...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2008
Ian Porter
provides tips on how to prepare for a greener business world.
A new shade of green Sustainability has become an issue which all companies need to build into their thinking. The way we use resources as a society is changing and the demands from our customers are changing...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2008
Adrian Dignam
provides six key steps to help your organisation to turn its planned strategies into action.
Turning talk into action
By all accounts, the implementation of organisational strategies is a classic example of the saying: “When everything’s been said and done, more’s been said th...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2008
The grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Domini Stuart examines the differences between sitting on private and public sector boards.
A peek at the other side
Until directors are replaced by robots, no two boards can possibly operate in exactly the same way. Nevertheless, there are...
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CDM Article
01 Nov 2007
We profile the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation which helps Australian businesses improve their competitiveness in international markets.
How EFIC can help
Australian exports topped a record $215 billion in the 2006/07 financial year, with exports of manufactures, resources and service...
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CDM Article
01 Nov 2007
The US subprime crisis has pushed up the cost of debt as nervous lenders have pulled back on their lending. ANZ head of credit research, markets,
Sarah Percy-Dove
provides some tips on how to manage a credit crunch.
Easing the credit crunch’s sting
Volatile markets uns...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2007
Gareth Johnston provides pointers to directors on how to manage risks and capture any opportunities presented by climate change.
Moving beyond climate neutral
Weather and climate have shaped human history and the development of many of our economic systems. Despite this, some directors have co...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2007
Creagh O’Connor is chairman of Cricket Australia and spoke to Giles Parkinson about the challenges of being on the board of a major sporting organisation.
Baggy green business
Creagh O’Connor clearly thinks there’s something very special about watching cricket. He speaks particularly fondly of...
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CDM Article
01 May 2007
Malcolm Simister, a principal of LMN Consulting and chairman of the Victorian Regional Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, believes that traditional budgeting encourages poor management practice and should be replaced by rolling planning and forecasting.
Budgeting is...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2007
Letters to the editor
Thanks to Domini Stuart for such a succinct article in the November edition on key issues for boards in strategic planning. I was heartened by the ‘Rubber Hits the Road’ section because it is not uncommon in my experience for organisations to do strategic planning because it i...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2006
Billions of dollars are spent on marketing each year but relatively little is known about its effectiveness. Giles Parkinson gives several examples of how companies obtained better value for their marketing dollar by analysing what campaigns actually resulted in higher sales and increased profits.
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2006
Michelle Alice Thoo, manager of the Singapore Tourism Board, outlines the new incentives available to attract more business meetings, conferences and events to Singapore.
Singapore, a meeting place for business
The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) recently unveiled a strategic three point plan de...
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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...