CPA Australia released a groundbreaking new book on Australia’s international competitiveness at the National Press Club in Canberra today. The book, Australia’s Competitiveness: From Lucky Country to Competitive Country, draws upon... read more

Australian companies are boosting productivity by asking staff to do more with the same resources. This is the key finding of a global study by finance sector recruiter Robert Half, which included 300 Australian CFOs and finance directors from... read more

The power nap is tailor-made for our time-poor, work-weary world where we crave a quick fix. It can take as little as 10 minutes… with no effort. It doesn’t get easier than that. The science is in and our bodies are primed – we... read more

The World Intellectual Property Organization recently released its estimates of international patent filings under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) for 2011. The year saw a record-setting 181,900 applications filed, a growth of 10.7 per cent... read more

Australia’s future economic prosperity is no longer assured. Against this backdrop, forthcoming research is intended to shed some light on the issue. It’s no secret that Australia’s non-mining businesses, particularly those in... read more

Productivity growth has long been an obsession for economists and politicians. The reason is simple: such growth is thought to be strongly tied to business prosperity and high living standards. Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens says... read more

According to NASSCOM, the trade body that represents India’s IT outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) industries, India's outsourcing revenue stands at US$60 billion a year. But the past few years have seen many big-name... read more

It’s now clear that many developed economies have not been able to repair the weaknesses exposed by the global financial crisis. European leaders are re-evaluating the value of the euro, Greece’s dysfunctional economy has sent... read more

Social media has become a booming field in Australia, with individuals and businesses logging on to Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, blogs and other digital channels in huge numbers. According to data from Facebook, it had 9.5 million subscribers... read more

Many employers and human resources professionals understand the rationale – healthy workers are more productive workers. And we’ve all heard the rhetoric: the workers are a company’s most valuable resource, so it pays to take good... read more

Don’t go for the big bang. That’s Orica executive Noel Meehan’s advice for anyone developing a business productivity program – even though Meehan is executive director, finance, at a company whose work involves making... read more

When a KPMG partner wanted to challenge the conventional method of peeling a banana, he used the power of crowdsourcing to find a solution. “No one had ever been able to efficiently peel a banana mechanically, so we sent an email through the... read more