Government agencies need to first consider buying goods and services from a small, medium or regional business for all direct procurements up to $250,000 as part of the NSW Government’s plan to boost local businesses. The NSW Government’s Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) and Regional
Natural disasters and unexpected catastrophes are inevitable, but not every business is sufficiently prepared for when things don’t go according to plan. The resulting fallout a disaster could have on your business can be enormous, however, having a plan in place will help to reduce
The change to the JobKeeper reference date from 1 March to 1 July 2020, effective from 3 August, will require all enrolled employers for JobKeeper to retest employee eligibility, the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) has warned. Staff employed by 1 July 2020 are now
Haystac’s former National Head of Strategy, Haylie Marchant, has launched The PR Toolkit – an online resource and DIY PR platform educating and empowering small and medium-sized businesses to do their own PR. Offering a mix of free resources and easy-to-use how-to guides, the one-stop-shop
No one knows with certainty what the future of business will look like, but one thing is fairly certain — it will never go back to what we have known in our professional lives. We are already living our new reality — or something closer
Melbourne will go into its second lockdown on Wednesday at midnight, leaving many small businesses non-operational and reeling from the financial devastation of the pandemic. With the city’s five million residents staying home, experts are worried that Melbourne’s thriving small-to-medium business sector has been dealt
This is especially prescient considering the need for so many to give away their personal information in order to gain the security of tracking and tracing in the COVID era – just to go out for dinner. For some time now, Australians have been willing
Many of Vietnam’s small businesses have reported both strong growth and strong usage of digital technology – factors that make them better placed than many other small businesses across the Asia-Pacific region to manage through the COVID-19 crisis and recover quickly, according to a recent
Companies should increase agility and build resilience for a ‘saw-toothed’ economic recovery and a fast-changing environment. The COVID-19 pandemic has presented governments, companies and individuals with an extraordinary global health and humanitarian challenge. The pandemic has also caused deep dislocations across the global economy, creating
Culture is crucial to achieving business goals, but it needs to be addressed more specifically than ‘organisation-wide’. Desired, value-aligned behaviours need to be reinforced in project teams so that they can successfully deliver outcomes. Leadership, accountability and the ability to speak up when things go
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