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Measuring leadership excellence
Research is redefining the meaning of leadership excellence in a growing number of countries.
Innovation rescue
What it takes to breath new life into Australian manufacturing.
Job search software engineered for success
Swinburne engineering alumnus Mike Giuffrida saw in the world wide web an opportunity most recruiters now take for granted.
Frequent online shoppers
Australians lead the world when it comes to frequency of internet purchases, however research suggests online shopping is not the main cause of the current retail trade downturn.
Winemaker with a taste for innovation
Ross Brown, third-generation Brown Brother and swinburne alumnus, says the success of the family’s wine business is in innovation and thinking long term.
Sustainability and small business: Carrots and sticks in the mix for business change
Two Swinburne projects are showing how small and medium enterprises can lower their environmental impact, and gain
The challenge to plug the human leak
New Swinburne research is focusing on people's behaviour to strengthen information security within government organisations.
Social make-over for the corporate bottom line
As more companies and individuals explore the possibilities of corporate philanthropy and social investment, they are also keen to learn the skills to make their contributions more effective, says Michael Liffman, director of the Asia–Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy (APCSIP) at Swinburne University.
Tragedy fires entrepreneurship lesson
While only being half way through their degrees, two entrepreneurship students are just months away from a new business delivering its first product – a product with the added reward of potentially saving lives.
Capital idea for sustainable charity
Swinburne University alumnus Leigh Wallace OAM considers his Master's Degree a contributing factor to the success of his innovative approaches to philanthropy at the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation.
Surprise findings in business carbon chase
A groundbreaking study by a team at Swinburne University of Technology has found that smaller companies would have little to fear from a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) … if or when Australia gets one.
How gran’s gift turned sunlight into people power
A Swinburne student has a lot to teach, after interrupting his studies to build an energy company
Aussie ambitions for gourmet treasure
A Swinburne horticulturalist has travelled to the horticultural and gastronomic home of truffles to help develop truffle growing in Australia
Human antennae tuned to the future
The future can both excite and terrify as it draws us forward, demanding we fill in its blank canvas moment by moment. Helping people to master that forward journey is the role of ‘strategic foresight’
Award to cross-culture business program
Swinburne TAFE’s partnership with several other organisations to develop Indigenous business governance skills has been recognised with a Business/Higher Education Round Table (B-HERT) Award in the category of Best Community Engagement.
I phone, I shop … nutrition at your fingertips
Swinburne MBA graduate Sandy Abram is launching her latest business venture ‘Our Food’, which integrates food information with modern mobile communications and is designed to help people eat healthier foods and live better lives
Workflow guide hitches timeliness to hard yakka
By bringing more order to the workflow of a construction site, researchers believe they can deliver substantial cost savings to the built environment.
Leadership a cultural cloth cut for the times
Understanding the social and historical influences that shape leadership ideals could do much to help smooth country-to-country business relationships in our culturally diverse region
The business founder who built structure into collapse
Like many Swinburne University of Technology accounting students, Mark Korda saw his studies as a first step into managing a business, but perhaps not the national accounting business that has made him a household name.
New common software for seamless commerce
The growing ‘connectedness’ between businesses has led to a rising demand for new software systems that enable better integration of routine processes, such as inventory checks, orders and sales, between businesses without the need to operate different and unconnected computer programs.
No joke when it’s survival of the funniest
In uncertain economic times when many people are worried about keeping their jobs, it’s understandable that some workplaces may be losing the jocular banter that otherwise relieves the working day.
Companies find a competitive green edge
A business environmental mentoring program is showing that ‘going green’ can win customers and profits.
Brave spirits step lightly between commerce and culture
As well as the normal hurdles facing any new business, Indigenous entrepreneurs also have to take account of cultural values that are important to their communities.
The call to making wine
With a distinctive outlook on life, a civil engineer with a knack for road construction technology paves a way into wine-making – one of several Swinburne alumni making a name for themselves in the quest for the perfect bouquet.
No flatfoots in managing crime response
Researchers who analyse and help define modern business management have been recruited to help law enforcers keep the management of crime fighting similarly 'fleet of foot'.
Race day art a triumph for media-savvy mad hatter
When her faculty dean likened graduates' degrees to simply foundations on which to build, the words stuck with Marilena Romeo and from that day on they directed her along quite a different career path.
Longer work life needs management re-think
The baby boomers are challenging policy-makers and governments to re-address how and why people work and train
'Jack of all trades' becomes media master
It took a Hong Kong fortune cookie to help web entrepreneur Domenic Carosa understand the path to business success.
