Business Advice (Commercial Content)

All board directors are asset managers, entrusted to manage and generate value from investments for the organisation and its stakeholders.

The Internet of Things will profoundly affect how we live our lives and businesses must adapt.

You probably heard about the recent global cyber-attack, which reached 200,000 computers across 150 different countries and affected countless businesses including hospitals, Nissan and FedEx.

There may be no greater test of a board than how it deals with a crisis. The nerves, emotional responses and judgment of the directors are all tested in a time-critical situation.

Many boards of ASX 200 companies have stepped up their role in shareholder engagement and helped improve the organisation's investor relations.

There is often a fundamental disconnect between researchers and those at the helm of business, responsible for implementing research insights.

You've probably all seen the news about some big global hack and most of it has gone over the everyday person's head.

In this extract from the AICD publishing imprint's latest title, Asset Management for Directors, author Monique Beedles discusses a novel approach for generating value from underu

Online customer experience is more than just having a good website.

Reputation is everything – even Warren Buffet thinks so.

Ahead of the AICD's NFP Forum, being held in Perth in May, keynote speaker Anne Skipper AM FAICD shared five of the main challenges she sees NFP boards facing.In an increa

Your body, your car, even your house needs a little TLC to keep looking and running at its best. Servers are no different.

Attending work under the influence of alcohol will likely justify dismissal.

The future of the legal profession

The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) last week released its latest Blueprint for Growth, a comprehensive plan to help boost productivity.

At a recent AICD event, three leading directors, in conversation with Alan Kohler, tackled the big challenges facing Australian boards.

There's a big difference between a great idea and a profitable business venture.

In 2016, we saw considerable developments in the way Google's algorithms returned search results. These tweaks have implications for how you should be implementing SEO on your website.

A new report prepared for the launch of the AICD's Advisory business unit sheds fresh light on the link between governance and performance across a range of organisations.

“The day of the ball is not the time to learn how to dance,” says the Wall Street Journal's Cybersecurity Research Director, Rob Sloan.

According to the WA State of Digital Report, half of Western Australian businesses do not believe they are making the m

The recent decision of Badran v Public Transport Authority of Western Australia [2017] WASCA 28, makes it clear that in Western Australia in order for an individual to obst

Marketing is in the middle of a data driven boom where research is the key to helping businesses understand their customers.

The NSW Supreme Court recently handed down a decision illustrating the importance of distinguishing ABNs and ACNs in the context of security registrations under the Personal Property and Securi

Is a company's only responsibility to make profit per Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman?

In the AICD's new weekly podcast, the AICD Chief Economist Stephen Walters discusses the economic news directors need to be across. In the second episode, Stephen and AICD writer Ivan

When people are fired in this post-mining boom economy they now invariably want their job back, or at least a large compensation payout – something akin to a Leprechaun's pot of gold.

At a recent AICD event, professional LinkedIn profile and résumé writer Karen Tisdell shared her top tips on enhancing your online presence and why you should treat LinkedIn as seriously a

This International Women's Day the Australian Institute of Company Directors asked nine prominent female directors to read out some of the feedback we received when we asked if there shoul

The annual general meeting has come under fire for not staying relevant in the contemporary corporate governance environment.

While all boards aspire to high performance, many fall well short of that goal.

In a typical customer journey, so much of the marketing effort centres on customer retention and loyalty – after all, it's cheaper and easier to keep a customer than to win a new one, right?