Category: Business

  • Victorian Boost Your Business

    Victorian Boost Your Business

    Boost your Business program The Victorian government has often had the best business and technology voucher programs in Australia and the Boost Your Business program is no exception to that rule. Up to 12th May 2019 you can apply for a voucher and it is $1 from you and $4 from the government up to…

  • Samantha Gash

    Samantha Gash At the most recent Casey Cardinia Business Breakfast I had the opportunity to hear Samantha Gash speak about her life and discovery of running.   Life beyond the comfort zone From a high school student who was always the last one picked for a sports team, she was not renowned for her physical…

  • Top 100 Global Technology Leaders

    Top 100 Global Technology Leaders Thomas Reuters have released their list of the Top 100 Global Technology Leaders and here is a summary. The original article appears at Top 100.   Top 10 Global Technology Leaders Microsoft Intel Corp Cisco Systems Apple Alphabet IBM Texas Instruments Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing SAP Accenture 10 Global Technology Leaders…

  • Nadine Champion on Winning

    Nadine Champion At the most recent Casey Cardinia Business Breakfast Nadine Champion presented 10 Seconds of Courage which also happens to be the title of her book.   Here is what she shared with us. She learned it from martial arts, but it applies to everything. I copied it down in point form so I’ll keep it…

  • Successful Endeavours finalists in Casey Cardinia Business Awards 2017

    Awards Finalists 2017 We are pleased to announce that we are finalists in the Casey Cardinia Business Awards for 2017 in two categories. These are:   Business and Professional Services Manufacturer of the Year     Although this isn’t the first time we have been finalists, it never gets old. These are a really great…

  • Project Management – pre-preparation

    Project Management This post will look at an aspect of managing projects that is often overlooked. These are the steps you need to take prior to project commencement. The idea for this came from a presentation by Graeme Joy to the Casey Cardinia Business Group covering his expedition to the North Pole.   Planning a Project…

  • Australian Manufacturing Continues to Grow Strongly

    Australian Manufacturing Boom I’m really pleased to announce that the growth in Australian Manufacturing last year was the biggest since the GFC. Australian Manufacturing Exports now exceed 2009 levels and it was the second largest jobs growth sector in the entire Australian economy.   You can probably tell I’m pretty excited about that.   Here…

  • SEBN Business Breakfast 2016 – Game Changing Growth

    Good Marketing Generates Growth This is Part 2 of the SEBN (South East Business Networks) business breakfast held just before Christmas 2016. Here we have John Berenyi of Bergent Research sharing with us on how big a game changer good marketing can be. John is a registered psychologist with degrees in commerce and technology. He presented a…

  • Australian Manufacturing Increasing Trend

    Australian Manufacturing PMI The Australian Manufacturing PMI is a measure of the manufacturing economy in Australia. A score above 50 means it is growing and a score below 50 means it is shrinking. I recently reported in the post about out new location that we had been in growth for the past 17 months but according to…

  • Design Led Innovation

    Design Led Innovation Traditional Product Development comes up with the product idea, does the development, gets it into production and then tries to find customers to sell it to.   Design Led Innovation tries to turn that process around so the actual needs of the customer or user become part of both the product definition and…