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November 2024

Transurban’s Simon Moorfield says AI is helping keep its roads in better shape, and responsibility for AI is being shared across the company.

Tech chiefs feel the heat of boards’ AI expectations

Fear among board directors and chief executives that they will be left behind in AI use by fleeter footed rivals’ is piling the pressure on tech executives.

  • Paul Smith
Shaneen Marshall, chief of technology and strategy at Zurich Financial.

AI gets real as big business finds its feet

An era of cautious, low-stakes experimentation is rapidly giving way to tangible changes in how some of Australia’s largest operations run.

  • Paul Smith
Kim Krogh Andersen, Telstra’s product and technology chief, says AI will change how it deals with customers, but humans will still be present.

Telstra and ANZ say human call centres will have AI agents

The way companies deal with their customers is going to change in the AI era, two of Australia’s biggest companies say, but humans will still be involved.

  • Paul Smith
Bran Black CEO, BCA at the Financial Review and Salesforce roundtable on Businesses’ great AI challenge

Should regulators have a light touch with AI rules?

Managing AI risks is all about making the most of the human safety net.

  • Alexandra Cain
Frank Fillmann, General Manager, ANZ, Salesforce

AI produces efficiency dividends for Australian business

Combining the best of artificial intelligence with human experience is creating genuine productivity gains.

  • Alexandra Cain
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February 2024

Marek Rucinski says AI can help identify when an organisation is likely to underpay superannuation.

AI auditors let the ATO find millions in unpaid tax and super

Natural language AI models have helped the ATO find hundreds of millions of liabilities and pinpoint organisations that may not be paying employees enough super.

  • Paul Smith
Science and Industry Minister Ed Husic is trying to establish “guardrails” for AI development.

The AI horrors Husic will head off with ‘guardrails’

Science and Industry Minister Ed Husic is trying to thread the needle with AI rules strong enough to protect society, without killing innovative business.

  • Paul Smith
Telstra CEO Vicki Brady

AI should do what humans can’t, not what we want

The best deployments of AI are helping us discover solutions to big problems and work smarter, without taking the humanity out of creativity or selling junk.

  • Paul Smith
Rowena Westphalen of Salesforce says there are a grwoing number of examples of AI making a material difference inside big companies.

Businesses still at the starting line in AI race

We are starting to see tangible returns from early corporate AI deployments, but there is still room for much more ambition and evolved use in the years ahead, experts say.

  • Paul Smith

June 2023

Groundbreaking institutes to build generations of job-ready graduates

NSW has launched two new institutes of applied technology that aim to equip graduates with the tools successful careers.

  • Mark Eggleton

November 2022

saasguru Chief Product Officer Prateek Kataria, Co-founder and COO Atif Saad and Co-founder and CEO Amit Choudhary  at Squarepeg in Sydney November 28, 2022. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer .

The ex-consultants cashing in with a solution to the skills shortage

After finding a solution to the skills shortage in his own business, Amit Choudhary has raised $4 million to build an education platform.

  • Tess Bennett

October 2022

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Facing into the wind and choosing kindness: the new CFO approach

Our strength as CFOs is the ability to break down silos, align and empower the teams to unlock synergies.

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September 2022

Organisations depend on technology to fuel growth.

Financial services can cut costs with digital transformation

Organisations need an approach to technology that marries long-term strategic planning and value delivery from day one.

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July 2022

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True Alliance saw online sales growth north of 600 per cent for certain brands during lockdowns.

Digital excellence the key to loosening consumers’ purse strings

When lockdowns began in March 2020, global brand distributor True Alliance was perfectly poised to pivot its business to online.

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June 2022

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Jo Gaines, area vice president of retail and consumer goods for Salesforce.

Boots and all: how to digitally capture and retain customers post-COVID

Businesses are redoubling their efforts when it comes to customer engagement as the world opens up and retailing returns.

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November 2021

Salesforce employee Manu Ewrin came out as trans earlier this year.

Salesforce introduces $55,000 package for transgender employees

Staff in Australia and New Zealand will get four weeks’ paid leave and $US40,000 to pay for medical expenses as the company seeks to support LGBTQI employees.

  • Tess Bennett

May 2021

Ian McAdam, Chief Commercial Officer, Salesforce Australia

Industry insight: Right skills urgently needed to fuel digital economy

Everyone can finally work where, when, and how they’ll make the most impact. Make no mistake, the future is digital.

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April 2021

Pip Marlow

The new workplace imperative: success from anywhere

This new digital world gives us the opportunity for our physical space to be redesigned.

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March 2021

Gisele Kapterian, director, public sector strategy, Salesforce APAC

Digital skills make all the difference in a crisis

Staff readiness to adapt to a speedy digital transformation can give organisations a leading edge in responding quickly to an adverse situation.

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Chief executive of the Council of Small Business of Australia  Peter Strong says we should be realistic about how quickly we can mobilise the forces of change.

Pandemic is an opportunity to rebuild better

The health crisis of 2020 has given businesses a chance to seize the next big moment and forge a new future for themselves and for the communities they serve.

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