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Redesigning the governance of culture
Julissa Shrewsbury, Australian Institute of Company Directors, 01 April 2025Culture needs to be on the board agenda at every meeting, addressed through rigorous analysis and strategic planning. In the rapidly changing and increasingly public and litigious business environment, it’s unacceptable to treat culture and a topic addressed only in a crisis.
governance
Turbocharging Organisational Learning With GenAI
Paul Baier and John J. Sviokla, MIT Sloan Review, 13 January 2025Generative AI can radically improve an organisation’s ability to learn. With the introduction of ChatGPT in 2022 the machines talked back. Instead of having to “speak” Java or Python, people could use everyday dialogue — which is why the tool garnered more than 100 million users in its first two months of public availability.
ai
Competition watchdog ACCC to get a boost in powers making it easier to block ‘harmful’ mergers and acquisitions
Nassim Khadem, ABC, 10 April 2024Australia's competition watchdog will be given far stronger powers to prevent companies from making repeated under-the-radar acquisitions that could harm competition and consumers.
regulation
“The Biggest Fight” – behind the scenes of The Pharmacy Guild’s putsch on 60-day scripts
Stephanie Tran, Michael West Media, 12 December 2023“665 pharmacies to close”? Stephanie Tran investigates the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s “biggest fight”, the scare campaign over 60-day scripts, hidden payments to Liberal and Labor parties and a sneaky carve-out from lobbyist rules.
government relations
Keeping a weather eye on COP28
Cat Woods, Law Society Journal, 06 December 2023On 30 November, COP28 welcomed world leaders and representatives in Dubai to discuss the most pressing global climate change concerns. The Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will proceed intensively until 12 December. The core work of COP28 is the same as it has been in previous years:...
geo political environment
The corporate governance failure at the heart of Sam Altman’s ouster from OpenAI
Duane Valz, Medium, 21 November 2023In this piece, the author examines both the flawed corporate structure of OpenAI, and the neglect of governance evolution during a year of immense change. Those things led to the chaos that unfolded around the firing of Sam Altman.
governance
Generative AI will level up cyber attacks, according to new Google report
10 November 2023As technology gets smarter with developments such as generative AI, so do cybersecurity attacks. Google's new cybersecurity forecast for 2024 reveals the rise of AI brings new threats you should be aware of.
innovation
Australia to investigate Optus outage that impacted millions
Eileen Yu, ZDNET, 09 November 2023The Australian government is launching an investigation into an hours-long outage involving local telco Optus, which left millions without access to telephone and broadband services.
issues management
The spectacular rise and fall of WeWork
Sam Forsdick, Raconteur, 08 November 2023In one of the most spectacular corporate collapses in recent history, WeWork went from a $47bn valuation to bankruptcy in just four years. How did the "fastest growing lessee of office space.." rise, fall, rise again and file for bankruptcy?
issues management
Inside Qantas’s turbulent week of lawsuits, Qatar Airways questions, Senate hearings and flight credit backflips
Kate Ainsworth, Nassim Khadem, ABC News, 04 September 2023Looming questions about Qatar Airlines, a class action about flight credits, heated questioning in a Senate inquiry and a lawsuit by the competition and consumer watchdog trouble Qantas over the past weeks.
corporate reputation