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) […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]