Ensuring workplace wellbeing is vital for businesses and individuals. People spend more than a third of their waking hours at work and their workplace has a big impact on their lives.
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Resource planning needed for latest challenges
The unpredictable demands of COVID-19 have required agility and innovation from the food and beverage industry. With quickly changing industry demands in conjunction with consumer pressure for transparency on the source and quality of ingredients, the ability to respond quickly can determine success or failure in a highly competitive market. An enterprise resource planning (ERP) […]
Read More6 trends for the changing workplace in 2022
Photo by Max Vakhtbovych After two years of total disruption, life is slowly returning to normal – except it won’t quite ever be back to business-as-usual. The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed us; made us question our values and re-evaluate what’s important to us. These are our trends for the changing workplace in 2022: 1. […]
Read MoreMeeting expectations for a transparent value chain in the fashion industry
Photo by Kai Pilger The environmental impact of fashion is a continually hot topic and for good reason. The United Nations states that the fashion industry is “widely believed to be the second-most polluting industry in the world”. It accounts for more than 20% of wastewater globally, the UN says. That’s why upcoming generations of younger […]
Read MoreDriving retail success with graph data platforms
Whether it’s building a product or promotions recommendation engine, personalising customer experiences, or redesigning supply chain to meet ever-changing customer demands, retailers are facing challenges that require the ability to leverage connected data in real-time. Traditional relational database systems that keep information in columns and rows no longer suffice. Graph data platforms store data as […]
Read MoreHow research technology is shaping the future of retail
Online shopping has surged since the Covid pandemic first hit Australian shores in 2020. When Pureprofile and IAB carried out a national survey of online shopping behaviour in the past 12 months, the report found that most shoppers weren’t new to purchasing goods online, but their usage of it had significantly increased. Many of the […]
Read MoreWinning the war for talent in 2022
The combined challenges of the Great Resignation and COVID staffing shortages are creating a perfect storm for recruitment. The global war for talent – already intense pre-pandemic – is becoming more competitive than ever before. People are moving around, switching jobs, companies and even industries, chasing higher pay, bigger benefits and a better work-life balance. […]
Read MoreDigital transformation at the heart of energy’s net zero ambitions
The convergence of net zero ambitions, evolving digital and industrial technologies as well as changing consumer awareness is driving the emergence of new digital opportunities within the energy system. The World Economic Forum (WEF) estimates the potential for digital transformation to unlock US$1.3 trillion of value for the global electricity sector alone. Australia’s energy suppliers […]
Read MoreAdapting the restaurant experience for the 2020s
Photo by Eric McNew The guest experience and serving the best possible version of that has always been the restaurant and food services industry’s central mission. As much as technology changes radically, some of the primary elements of a great guest experience remain the same. The real question is how technology intersects with perceptions and […]
Read MoreDo we need anti-discrimination laws for racist robots?
The United Nations has described Artificial Intelligence (AI) as “humanity’s new frontier” that will “lead to a new form of human civilisation”. But the use of AI in our day-to-day lives presents many ethical dilemmas. Put simply: AI can’t always be trusted to be neutral and unbiased. Like it or loathe it, AI is already […]
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