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Business Insights - Winter 2009 Edition

Given the challenges facing business leaders today, it’s worth remembering that positive outcomes usually begin with a positive approach. So this issue of Business Insights focuses on options for boosting productivity. Deploying the right solutions to improve systems, service, processes – and profits – is a positive way to guide your organisation through leaner, keener and more competitive times.

The interview with CIO editor Matt Rodgers is a great example. He points out you shouldn’t stop investing in IT, but pursue the optimum value for money instead. His approach, which is all about focusing on your strategic and productivity goals, can deliver a real competitive advantage. This approach is echoed in our award winning case studies. Managing Directors Leanne Wesche, from the Pacco Group and David Lumb from Clearmake both discuss using have used technology to turn great thinking into successful businesses.

Invest for the future - Plans for today that reap rewards for tomorrow

Matt Rodgers, Editorial Director for CIO magazine discusses how getting your IT priorities in shape and laying future plans should be a priority right now. It’s a great way to get ahead of the competition.
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Innovation - Thinking outside the vegetable box

Leanne Wesche is Managing Director of Pacco Group and Safeguard Innovations and was the Telstra 2008 Business Woman of the Year. In this article she talks about driving business forward through innovation, organisation management and calculated risks.
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Case study - Feed Central

Tim Ford, Managing Director of Feed Central tells us how he successfully merged agribusiness with eCommerce to create a thriving business. He details why technology is the biggest trick of his trade.
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New thinking on how to do business – Analysing the Value Chain

An in-depth look into ways small changes can improve your business by using the famous Porter business model. Roger La Salle, a business consultant, adds practical examples to the theory and discusses his value chain model.
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Productivity on the move – Exploring the Next G™ advantage

The benefits of the Telstra Next G™ network for your business. By using Australian business examples this article shows the advantages they have gained from the high-speed and extensive coverage available.
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Software without the hard costs

This article looks at the key benefits of T-Suite (software as a service) and specifically focuses on two key applications for your business. Securing your business data, and the HR application Workforce Guardian, which can help your business with it’s obligations under the Fair Work Bill.
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Telstra services - Striving for Continuous Improvement

Important information on how Telstra Business Broadband can help streamline your operations, improve productivity and help protect your businesses ongoing success. This edition’s hot topics are integrated broadband access and business applications.
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Long live the evolution - Clearmake

David Lumb, Clearmake’s Managing Director took over the water treatment business in 2007. In the following financial year the company’s revenue increased by 35%. David discusses his successful management style and the importance of evolution in growing a successful company.
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The productivity push: the role of Information Communication Technology (ICT)

Increasing productivity is about working smarter, being more responsive and adaptive to changing situations around you. This special report looks at how organisations are using ICT to boost their productivity levels in Australia across company, individual and work group levels.
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Virtual Conferencing – Bringing people together

Improved communications, collaboration and service can all be achieved through Video Conferencing. This article demonstrates how implementing a Video Conferencing solution can help increase operational efficiencies and productivity while reducing expenses.
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