Australian companies need to except the disruption from digital platforms is here to stay.
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Business Briefing: disrupted companies will need to think global to survive
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Australian businesses need to focus more on the global market and less on giving generous dividends to shareholders.
If businesses meet the needs of their employees they will feel like they are growing and will be more productive, research suggests.
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Happy employees, whose basic needs are met, are essential to a productive business.
Both News Corp and Fairfax get a decent profit from their digital real estate services.
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Media companies say their results are an indicator of a transformation taking place from traditional business to newer profitable digital platforms, but it seems the proof is still missing.
A price on carbon introduced by the Labor government, dubbed the “carbon tax”, was more effective at motivating big emitters to act, compared to the current Direct Action plan.
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New research has found that carbon intensive companies have lost focus on reducing emissions under Direct Action, when compared with the carbon tax.
Cybersecurity risks increase with the amount of outsourcing a company does.
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Business Briefing: hack-proof, how business can stay ahead in cybersecurity
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Businesses are going about cybersecurity the wrong way and need to go back to the question: what are you trying to protect?
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Following the Brexit vote, a number of cities are queuing up to take London’s place as Europe’s financial centre.
Herman Mashaba, businessman and member of the Democratic Alliance, now mayor of Johannesburg.
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Business people who become politicians can bring fresh energy into the public service. They come from an ecosystem that is driven by urgency to produce measurable results.
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High fees and independence make consultancy a popular option for professionals with families.
Fairfax is caught between boosting a profitable side of its business and retaining its traditional business at a loss.
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Firms that are trying to branch out into new technology, while at the same time retaining traditional business, are facing similar problems to startups.
Businesses need to use simple technology more effectively, as opposed to robots like Softbank’s “Pepper”.
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When it comes to using technology, businesses don’t always get it right.
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The ever-widening gap between CEO and average worker pay has its roots in collective action by executives.
Mannequins for sale in the Crawley branch of BHS.
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The pursuit of shareholder value destroys jobs, investment and the long term health of the economy, but as long it is legal Philip Green’s behaviour is just business as usual.
A new hero for business leaders?
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Sam Allardyce may not have the immediate appeal of Ferguson, Mourinho or Guardiola, but his approach has serious value for execs.
The health sector has been plagued by problems from privatisation similar to those in vocational education.
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The presumption in government is that privatisation is always desirable, but many failures have led consumers to think differently.
A TV cameraman shoots a Madame Tussauds Museum figure of US Olympic gold medal swimmer Michael Phelps at Banneker Pool in Washington, to coincide with the opening of the Rio Olympics on August 5.
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Business Briefing: the big bucks of broadcasting the Olympics
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The amount broadcasters will pay for the rights to the Olympics keeps going up, but is the value of the rights changing?
A business cannot price “too low” or it breaks the law, but undercutting competitors is not necessarily illegal.
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It’s time that Australians debated the objective of our competition law. It shouldn’t just be left to the courts.
Republican nominee Donald Trump isn’t in favour of the TPP.
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If the United States doesn’t ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership, China will be more likely to succeed with its own trade agreement.
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The high street chains cop the heat, but shouldn’t you be doing your bit too?
London’s trading strength has evolved from dockyard cranes to high finance.
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As the budget deficit fades from political view, anxiety shifts to the much wider current account deficit. It may signal UK dynamism, but neither financing nor closing it look easy after Brexit.
Philip Green: hit hard by MPs.
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Philip Green has been vilified by MPs just as Theresa May vows to take on bad behaviour in big business. New research reveals just how urgent a task this is for voters.