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BOSS Most Innovative Companies pave the road to Australia’s future
AI agents and virtual teams provide new ways to scale talent, adapt and collaborate. But Australian firms lag in linking technology investments to business goals.
- Jane Livesey
This non-profit plays to the strengths of autistic young adults
Australian Spatial Analytics aims to find jobs for a group who are 10 times more likely to be unemployed than the national average.
- Christopher Niesche
Lawyers double check this AI tool’s answers
LawY, a function of LEAP Legal Software that allows users to query a legal database to carry out common tasks, uses an old-school way to ensure accuracy.
- Edmund Tadros
Marketers get ‘freedom to play’ using automated research tool
The marketing aid uses artificial intelligence to quickly ask customers what they think about new products and deliver the research results overnight.
- Edmund Tadros
This AI agent can spare you inconvenient meetings by deputising
Mindhive has developed AI-enhanced avatar software that allows users to create digital ‘twins’ of themselves to stand in when they are unavailable.
- Alexandra Cain
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Emissions tracking tool a winner for super funds and Pathzero
Aware Super and Hesta use Pathzero software. So do 600 fund managers. It’s already the world’s largest data sharing network for private market carbon emissions.
- James Eyers
You’ll thank this bank for making you wait hours for your savings
This neo-bank wants to do money differently, and teach its customers how to take control of their budgets.
- Lucy Dean
Assessing innovation hands on with AI and experts
Cognizant employed a multifaceted approach in judging of The Australian Financial Review 2024 BOSS Most Innovative Companies Awards.
- George Evans
Space is finite – this company helps retailers maximise it
Scalene helps retailers make the best use of their footprint, while Samsara Eco is tackling fashion’s huge plastic waste problem.
- Lauren Sams
Why hydrogen is better than batteries for long-distance trucks
H2X is focusing the rollout of its hydrogen-powered trucks on Europe and Scandinavia where incentives and refuelling are better.
- Agnes King
How one agency found a way to juice its clients’ Google search results
Impressive Digital has spent the past two years building Skailed, a platform that can generate thousands of e-com landing pages to improve Google rankings.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
‘The cabin is the driver’s office’ for filters maker Ryco
Ryco’s fine-particle vehicle filters offer a medical-grade ‘face mask for your truck’ – a game changer for the health of commercial transport drivers.
- Sylvia Ramsay
The start-up revolutionising male fertility tests
A home testing kit for men helps avoid the inconvenience and embarrassment of trips to IVF clinics.
- Michael Smith
AI greenhouses feed remote communities and educate children
Food Ladder installs AI greenhouses in remote communities to feed people and educate their children about the benefits of healthy fresh produce.
- Christopher Niesche
How this Aussie mining tech company is doing its bit for the planet
ElectraLith is named the 2024 AFR BOSS Most Innovative Company in the Agriculture, Mining, Engineering and Utilities sector.
- Sally Patten
January
Why this Woolworths executive no longer brings a laptop to meetings
In our Summer Breakfast with the BOSS series, Andrew Cooper, head of transformation at Woolworths Metro, says ditching his laptop for an old-fashioned paper notebook has helped him become more productive in meetings.
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- Lois Maskiell
September 2023
This fintech lets you pay for fuel with bitcoin
A small, but growing, cohort of consumers is tapping their crypto wallets to pay for fuel, powered by a local payments innovation.
- Tess Bennett
Cardboard drone maker used in Ukraine is Australia’s top innovator
Sypaq has won the 2023 AFR Boss Most Innovative Companies Award, for its flat packed cardboard drones, which have been serving on the front line in Ukraine.
- Paul Smith
- Analysis
- Innovation
Old hands can be disruptors too
Some of the finalists in the 2023 AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies awards are not start-ups, but companies that have been around for a few decades or more.
- Sally Patten
Robots open a path to sustainable construction
This university building used a world-first technological innovation involving the use of a robot to install screw fixings during construction.
- Prashant Mehra
How Guide Dogs caters for all walks of life
The not-for-profit’s new Sydney flagship office is a template for the disability-inclusive future workplace.
- Sian Powell
- Opinion
- AFR Reports
We need to turn invention into innovation
Australian innovation has come a long way over the past decade, but innovation never sleeps, writes Larry Marshall.
- Larry Marshall
This online tool cuts contract red tape to less than an hour
A law firm has created an innovative tool that creates a customised construction contract in a fraction of the time.
- Prashant Mehra
Using AI to help save wildlife after bushfires
Ecologists know that far more data is needed to help species to survive catastrophic bushfires. That is where AI comes in.
- Sian Powell
These five items drive your electricity bill
Retailer AGL has designed an app to help homeowners figure out how to electrify their homes.
- Christopher Niesche