Category: New In Leadership

Cybersecurity is a huge risk for businesses and a serious concern for managers, as recent high-profile online hack attacks demonstrate. With cybercrime now costing Australian businesses more than $1 billion annually, the question being asked is whether protection of an organisation’s digital assets should be left solely with the IT department. Recent cyber attacks have […]

  Business in regional Australia is thriving far from the gleaming towers of state capital CBDs. Nearly half (43 per cent) of the nation’s small businesses (under 20 employees) are based in regional and rural areas, says Roy Morgan Research. And one in five income earners outside the capital cities are business owners, compared to one in […]

Bring-your-own-device policies are a common way businesses supply computing to workers, but personal smartphones and tablets can be a serious threat to workplace data security. BY BRAD HOWARTH The data security of many Australian businesses is at risk due to the spread of bring-your-own-device policies. Australia’s love affair with smartphones and tablets has seen many […]

Technology allowing virtual collaboration is transforming Australian workplaces. When managers at the Melbourne-based custom software developer and integrator Readify send out a meeting request, they don’t honestly expect anyone to actually turn up. But they do expect everyone to attend. With four offices around Australia, staff at Readify have become used to working in teams […]

Three project management professionals talk about the industry. What are the biggest challenges faced by project managers today? What methodology is best? And what is the true measure of a project’s success? BY CAROLYN BOYD EVE VICKERSON Eve Vickerson is a senior town planner from Brisbane who works on multi-million dollar developments and has a […]

A new era of collaboration is changing the face of project management. BY CAROLYN BOYD, ILLUSTRATION BY JIM TSINGANOS   In a world where project management is constantly evolving, Julia Steel, general manager of projects in Telstra’s project management office, has a useful mantra:‘Start less. Finish more.’ Steel, like many other project management professionals, says […]

Being a small business, and not a big one, is central to the success of Bruny Island Cheese. Business owner and cheesemaker Nick Haddow isn’t interested in chasing sales to the United States or other export markets, or dream of becoming a major company. “I’m slightly terrified of Bruny Island Cheese Company becoming a big […]