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Modern Slavery: Is your supply chain benefiting from slavery?

Modern Slavery is insidious and endemic, and it could be affecting your business without your knowledge. It’s a human rights abuse that is happening right now, today, in industries we are all a part of as either producers or consumers. Fishing, cocoa, cotton, fashion, cannabis, construction – to name a few.

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Putting a Stop to the Employee Churn Through Learning Technologies

Learning and development trends provide a good indication of where the training industry is heading in Australia. It is mainly about personalisation, ongoing support and making the most of today’s emerging technologies.

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7 Steps To Mastering Your Indirect Spend Analysis

  Spend Analysis is the systematic process of collecting, cleansing, segmenting and analysing information about the money spent through your organisation’s suppliers, with the aim of identifying the spend areas that have the biggest impact on both your organisation’s top-line and bottom-line figures.     Purchasing Index tool helps you…

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Using e-Learning to Gain Competitive Advantage in the Australian Retail Industry

With the evolving retail environment and customers shifting to online channels for purchase, the emphasis is to build a workforce that is not only focused on sales but is keen on pleasing the customer with high levels of customer service.  As far as industries go, retail is one of the largest in…

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7 Tips to Shine During EOFY Period

Because time waits for no one! At the end of financial year – motivation definitely drives decisions, and there is no shortage of motivation from stakeholders to purchase nor suppliers to sell. This is a match made in heaven and an opportunity for you to really shine. Whilst the current…

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7 Reasons why supply chain teams are turning to e-learning

I don’t know about you, but my lessons at school, university or professional development training have not always gone at the pace I wanted. They were either too fast, too slow and even if they were going at the right pace, the lectures and tutorials weren’t always on at a…

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Could the $40million NAB Executive fraud have been avoided?

Fraud

$40 million! That is how much an ex-NAB executive was able to defraud from the bank before being detected. What would happen to your business if you lost even a fraction of that kind of money? Trust is important in a business. But so is vigilance against untrustworthy people. People…

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How could the $40million NAB Executive fraud been avoided?

Forty million! That is how much an ex-NAB executive was able to defraud from the bank before being detected. What would happen to your business if you lost even a fraction of that kind of money? Trust is important in a business. But so is vigilance against untrustworthy people. People…

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It is dirty work, this data business

Data Analysis

 “I’m an oil man, ladies and gentlemen. I have numerous concerns spread across this state. I have many wells flowing at many thousand barrels per days. I like to think of myself as an oil man”. – Daniel Plainview, There Will Be Blood Data is the new oil; many people…

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5 reasons to use reverse auctions in 2019

Reverse Auctions

“What is the best deal you can offer me?” that is the heart of negotiations. Reverse auctions are a tried and tested tool to get to the “best deal”. A brief intro on “what is a reverse auction”: In the case of normal auctions, the vendor puts up a good,…

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