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How to demonstrate your strategic thinking skills
Nina A. Bowman, Harvard Business Review, Monday 23rd September, 2019, 20 September 2019Strategic thinking plays a critical role in your career advancement as it tells management that you’re able to think for yourself and can make diligent decisions for the future of the organisation. Developing and demonstrating these skills however, are very different challenges. Development of the skill involves exposure and experiences while...
adaptive leadership
measurement
Miners face higher bar to maintain ‘social licence’, report warns
Nick Toscano, Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 2nd September, 2019, 02 September 2019 A Deloitte report being circulated within the mining industry has warned companies that conflict with communities could face losing their social licence if they are unable to go beyond their required stakeholder and environmental obligations. "In many countries, the true economic contribution of mining is being questioned," said the report. The...
corporate responsibility
measurement
Bots are listening to your CEO’s conference call
Simon Jemison, Bluenotes, Tuesday 16th July 2019, 15 July 2019 Natural language processing (NLP) is changing the way we operate. Algorithms, linked mostly to targeted advertising on social media, are now working on divining corporate speak from spin. Why read 20 pages or labour through a conference call when an algorithm can alert you when the company’s investment thesis is pivoting? Or when voice forensics...
socio political environment
measurement
Culture matters. Now we can measure it.
MIT Sloan Management Review, July 2019, 02 July 2019 The Culture 500, together with MIT, has used more than one million reviews from Glassdoor to rank corporations along nine dimensions of company culture: agility, collaboration, customer, diversity, execution, innovation, integrity, performance and respect.Follow this link to see the...
measurement
Measuring corporate responsibility investment’s impact with Kylie Macfarlane
29 April 2019Following on from an interview with Allegra Spender from the Australian Business and Community Network, Centre Director Wayne Burns speaks with Commonwealth Bank's Head of Corporate Responsibility to speak about the importance of social impact from a business perspective, and the importance of being able to measure...
measurement
corporate community investment
community relations
Measuring social impact with ABCN CEO Allegra Spender
15 April 2019The Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns sits down with the CEO of the Australian Business and Community Network Allegra Spender to talk about measuring and reporting on social impact, and her experience leading the ABCN.
measurement
corporate community investment
community relations
Data, Analytics & AI: How Trust Delivers Value
MIT SMR Connections, Custom Research Report, January 2019, 22 January 2019 This report, by SAS in collaboration with the MIT Sloane Management Review, examines how to derive more value from analytics and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence. It presents a global survey of 2,400 business executives and managers to identify where recognised best practices are becoming mainstream and where they may still be...
measurement
The ROI Communication Benchmark Report 2017
13 November 2016The 2017 communication benchmark report incorporates ROI’s experience working with Fortune 500 companies over 15 years, with the report compiled from the responses of 115 leaders representing 4.5 million employees. The benchmark report uses a framework to evaluate the effectiveness of communication organisations. The benchmark model consists of...
measurement