By University of British Columbia - Thursday, September 27th, 2018
Jobs in information technology — like computer software, big data, and cybersecurity — are providing American workers with long-lasting financial stability, suggests a new study.
By Ted Smillie - Thursday, September 27th, 2018
Yes, those of us whose eyes tend to glaze over at statistics (not mentioning any names, Barnaby) have had a wake-up call. Australian Statistician, David W Kalisch made the following prediction at the Australian Market and Social Research Society Conference in Melbourne on August 10, 2018. “If the ABS continues to be subject to efficiency […]
By Tom Burton - Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
A focus on eight key digital industries would yield up to $315 billion in economic value, according to a report by economics and strategy firm, AlphaBeta, commissioned by CSIRO’s Data61.
The Digital Innovation report finds Australia has failed to capture the same economic value from digital innovation as other countries, with productivity from technology below that of our peers, and a lack of our own large-scale digital industries.
By Steve Worthington, Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology - Wednesday, September 5th, 2018
Most credit card fraud takes place online or over the phone. It’s not the cards that are stolen, but the details. The Australian Payments Network finds they are used to amass 85% of the money stolen using Australian credit cards, without the need to steal the cards themselves.
By Ted Smillie - Thursday, August 30th, 2018
Previous QESP Newsletter articles have looked at how Education can adapt to meet 21st century skills needs, using 21st Century tools and online resources. Now we are seeing more approaches to helping school kids get into the workforce. “Some students don’t have any meaningful contact with the workplace until their 20s. That’s too late” This […]
By Rob Nicholls, Senior lecturer in Business Law, UNSW - Thursday, August 30th, 2018
The European Commission imposed fines of more than €110 million (AU$170 million) on Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer this month. These consumer electronics manufacturers had prevented online retailers from selling below the recommended retail price of their products, threatening to block supply if they did so.
By Harvard Business School - Monday, August 13th, 2018
Technologies and organizations should be redesigned to intermittently isolate people from each other’s work for best collective performance in solving complex problems.
By David Donaldson - Monday, August 6th, 2018
Projects that vanish, ministerial over-involvement and a lack of evaluation: a new report finds some major problems with the secretive aid initiative at DFAT.
Three years after its launch, a lack of transparency makes it difficult to evaluate how well InnovationXchange is faring — and even whether some funded projects are continuing at all.
By Ted Smillie - Monday, July 30th, 2018
This month brings some further thoughts on ICT jobs and productivity from a range of Public and Private Sector gurus. An 18 July 2018 report in The Mandarin The future of work: is it something completely different? gives the text of a speech by the Productivity Commission’s Deputy Chair, Karen Chester, to the Committee for […]
By Jarrod Haar, Professor of Human Resource Management, Auckland University of Technology - Wednesday, July 25th, 2018
Employees at a New Zealand company behind an innovative trial of a four-day working week have declared it a resounding success, with 78% saying they were better able to manage their work-life balance.
Perpetual Guardian, which manages trusts and wills, released their findings from the trial, which was prompted by research that suggests modern workers are only productive for about three hours in a working day.
