Category: Business
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Coolest Tech and Top Manufacturers in Australia
Coolest Tech Companies in Australia Smart Company have revealed the Top 10 Coolest Tech Companies in Australia for 2015. At the top of the list is Canva. And the rest of the list is also mostly digital companies. Quite a difference to the next list which is for making physical stuff. That thing called…
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Casey Cardinia Business Awards Winners 2015
Casey Cardinia Business Awards The City of Casey and Shire of Cardinia have been actively collaborating and cooperating for many years now. This is an inspiring example of how to buck the current Australian trend against collaboration. And one of the ways they are doing this is with a combined business program including the Casey Cardinia Business…
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Casey Technology Expo 2015
Casey Technology Expo This year the City of Casey held a technology expo to showcase some of our local technology businesses. It also included presentations from four businesses on how they got through the start-up phase and concluded with a shark tank pitch event for entrepreneurs aged up to 25. As part of this…
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IT Salaries Worldwide
IT Salaries Internationally This link for this information was provides by John Larase of Staff.com and I thought you might find it interesting to know what the salaries for a range of IT roles looked like from different countries. John originally sent the link to our Business Mentor Dr Marc Dussault, The Exponential Growth Strategist of Exponential Programs. Marc saw the potential interest…
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Collaboration: New opportunities depend on it
Collaboration So what is Collaboration? The first thing it is not is convincing someone to work for you for nothing with the vague promise you will make it worth their while in the long run. Let’s look at a few formal definitions: Collaboration is working with each other to do a task and…
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Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards Finalists 2014
Manufacturers’ Monthly Endeavour Awards 2014 I recently spotlighted the Endeavour Awards which are held on the first evening of National Manufacturing Week. This is where we celebrate manufacturing success stories each year. What I didn’t mention at the time was that we had entered this year for the first time. The awards are run…
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Practical Innovation
Innovation Innovation is always a topic of interest to me. This post covers an approach to Innovation that I found helpful and was inspired by Frank Connolly of Think Quick. He is working with SEMMA as part of their Future of Manufacturing project which we are supporting. The first thing that always comes up…
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Manufacturing a City
How to build a city I went to the Industry Capability Network (ICN) event looking at the project to Rebuild Christchurch after the devastating earthquakes 3 years ago. This was also supported by the Dandenong Council and the South East Melbourne Manufacturing Alliance (SEMMA). I hadn’t realised what an event it was. 70% of the…
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Technology Voucher Program
Victorian Technology Voucher Program The Victorian Technology Voucher Program came out of the STIUP (Small Technologies Industry Uptake Program) and is one of the most progressive and effective technology development assistance programs in Australia. The main different to the earlier program is that it also allows ICT (Information Communications Technology) platforms to be developed.…
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Casey Business Awards 2013 Pictures
Casey Business Awards We finally have photos from the Casey Business Awards for 2013 so here they are. The picture above is for the Business and Professional Services Award for 2013 and was presented by the Department of State Development, Business and Innovation DSDBI. If you have been keeping track, we have won this…