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Healthcare | Leadership & Communication
To merge or not to merge – a modern dilemma for health insurers
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is ramping up pressure for health insurance companies to amalgamate, as part of the sector’s “financial recovery plan”. At an industry level, the rationale for a largescale M&A push is clear. But at a company level it is often less so, explains Police Health Chief Executive, Scott Williams. “Consolidation…
4 Mar 2020, by Amy SarcevicLeadership & Communication | Transport & Logistics
Diversifying the rail industry workforce – challenges and opportunities
The importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace extends far beyond fairness and equal rights, and is key to enhancing the future of Australia’s rail sector, according to Matthew Clifford-Jones of Aurizon. “Creating a culture where everybody feels safe and included to come to work should be a priority for every organisation, but also,…
24 Oct 2019, by Amy SarcevicLeadership & Communication | Legal
Is there a case for a Media Freedom Act? An interview with Professor Peter Greste
When former Al Jazeera journalist, Professor Peter Greste, was captured and imprisoned in Egypt - after his reporting of a topic believed to be compromising national security - he began thinking about the seeming tradeoff between the need for national security and democracy. Populist pressure to clamp down on national security threats, post 9/11, has seen…
11 Oct 2019, by Amy SarcevicLeadership & Communication | Transport & Logistics
Tackling predictive maintenance – a project management perspective
Predictive maintenance (PM) is the future of asset management in the rail sector, and a good data analytics project is the way to get there. A successful data analytics project can analyse seemingly unrelated train data and predict future equipment and system failures with confidence levels as high as 80 per cent or more. However, orchestrating this kind…
3 Oct 2019, by Amy SarcevicBusiness | Leadership & Communication | Technology
How to develop your company’s ‘innovation muscle’
Disruptive trends like AI, Iot and ‘as a service’ business models are transforming the expectations of consumers and demanding that we all do business in a different, more innovative, way. With tech giants like Google and Microsoft submitting thousands of AI patent applications and investing heavily in this space, other companies are beginning to follow…
18 Jun 2019, by Informa InsightsInfrastructure | Leadership & Communication | Transport & Logistics
Looking for ways to dramatically enhance rail in New Zealand?
Just ask the next generation of rail leaders for their innovative ideas The New Zealand Rail Pitching Competition was launched in 2017 to offer young professionals the opportunity to pitch their ideas to today’s rail leaders, raise their profile and be in the running to win a TranzAlpine journey of a lifetime. Along the way,…
20 May 2019, by Informa InsightsLeadership & Communication
Creating a healthy operating theatre team culture – insights from Scott Dutton
Have you ever been to a restaurant where, in the short time it takes you to order and eat a meal, you get a pretty good insight into the workplace dynamics? Whether the waiters get along; how overbearing the manager is; whether the staff are overworked and unhappy? As well as preventing costly setbacks like…
14 May 2019, by Informa InsightsBusiness | Leadership & Communication
How to maximise your online personal brand
Your online presence says a lot about you and in today’s world it could make or break your success. But what exactly should we be sharing online; and how? Ahead of the Future Women Executive Summit, we spoke with Lynn Dang of Microsoft who shared some ideas on how to strategically maximise your online personal…
7 Mar 2019, by Informa InsightsLeadership & Communication | Technology
Enhancing mobile networks in a 5G world
Australia’s fifth generation (5G) broadband rollout is now well underway and is soon set to go live, with Telstra and Optus both committed to selling 5G products and services in 2019; and Vodafone in the near future. With its ultrafast network speeds and lower latency, 5G is expected to make a big impact on the…
25 Feb 2019, by Amy SarcevicBusiness | Leadership & Communication | Technology
How will the Huawei ban affect the 5G rollout?
Since the onset of the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008, global productivity has slowed, at times, to the point of stagnation. This ‘productivity slowdown’ has manifested, among other things, as low GDP and wage growth. In other words, productivity matters at both a national and individual level. David Kennedy of Ovum believes that enterprise…
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