28 Mar 2023
Camila Salazar
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Content Producer, ANZ
Queensland has the opportunity to accelerate its already strong economic growth. Targeted investment can capitalise on a new economy.
28 Mar 2023
Gene Tunny
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Director Adept Economics
Queensland has a great opportunity to accelerate its very strong economic growth. Download the full Queensland: Future state report by Adept Economics.
22 Mar 2023
Jeremy Wickens
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Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
Cashed-up foreign bidders - led by the US - last year returned to target Australian companies after a Covid lull, expect this to grow.
14 Nov 2022
Shane White
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Content Manager, Institutional, ANZ
The economic opportunity in Queensland is significant but it comes with challenges.
11 Sep 2017
David Lewis
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Australian business professional and founder of The Mentor List
In the Mentor List’s latest podcast they talk to Jan Owen about unleashing the potential of young people to lead positive change in the world.
29 Aug 2017
Carina Parisella & Greg Szopa
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bluenotes contributors
Entrepreneur and fourth-generation farmer says growers are best-placed to offer innovative insights to the sector.
27 Jul 2017
Sam Marwood
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Co-founder at Cultivate Farms
An ag startup aims to rejuvenate Australia’s farming communities by match-making young and existing families.
09 May 2017
David Lewis
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Australian business professional and founder of The Mentor List
Work Club founder and CEO Soren Trampedach discusses the future of work – and it is essentially evolve or die.
05 May 2017
Carina Parisella
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Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
Only 3 per cent of tech firms globally are founded by females. Which doesn’t just sound wrong but in fact delivers poorer economic outcomes.
24 Apr 2017
Terrie Lloyd
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CEO, Japan Travel KK
One of Japan's big-three parcel delivery companies, Yamato, dropped a bombshell when an "inside source" told a major daily newspaper they would gradually end their same-day deliveries for Amazon Prime customers.
31 Mar 2017
Tania Motton
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ANZ General Manager, Business Banking Australia
Small businesses are not just the lifeblood of growth in Australia and most economies, delivering true innovation and higher employment, their experiences can offer lessons for businesses of all sizes.
29 Mar 2017
Andrew Cornell
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Past Managing Editor, bluenotes
The idea everyone can be a leader is a myth, ANZ director Paula Dwyer says, but that doesn’t mean leadership can’t be found at every level of an organisation.
23 Aug 2016
Felicia Trewin
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Head of Strategy & Business Optimisation, ANZ
It’s almost become a cliché for start-ups: fail fast. But according to venture capitalist Brad Feld, prospective entrepreneurs do need to critically reassess their understanding of failure if they are to succeed in the modern world of technology.
02 Aug 2016
Andrew Cornell
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Past Managing Editor, bluenotes
Venture capital investment hit a record in 2015. It won’t top that in 2016. The latest EY global venture capital trends report found $US148 billion invested through 8,381 deals in 2015 – the highest venture capital (VC) activity in nearly two decades.
28 Jul 2016
Josh Tanchel
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Partner, Deloitte Private
With the ‘low-hanging technology fruit’ well picked in developed Western markets it will be harder and harder for Australian companies to get breaks in these competitive regions in the future.
12 Jul 2016
Gabrielle Mitchell
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bluenotes contributor
What makes venture capitalists (VCs) see great potential in a start-up? Is there such a thing as the perfect pitch? And what does the innovation boom mean for small businesses?
26 Apr 2016
Juliet Bourke
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Partner, Deloitte
Sometimes you don’t even know you hold a stereotype until it is right in your face.
12 Apr 2016
Tessa Roulston
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Change Manager, ANZ
What happens when you take 45 of Australia’s most innovative thinkers and drop them into the middle of the Amazon? It sounds like the plot of another awful reality TV show but it really happened – and proved to be one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
12 Apr 2016
Francesca Rizzo
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BlueNotes contributing editor
Where do corporate newsrooms like BlueNotes fit into the journalism universe?
29 Mar 2016
Todd Tobias
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Former Director Business Projects Global Markets, ANZ
When we think 'digital', we often think of beautiful apps and websites containing cutting-edge functionality, delivered via simple user interfaces striving to create a flawless experience and, in doing so, encouraging customers to engage.
21 Mar 2016
Mara Bun
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Company director, consultant & moderator, Tallebudgera Valley
Remember the days when newspapers and TV decided what was news and consumers responded accordingly? Just as the news value chain splintered into a world where people create and share media, the food industry also confronts a changing landscape.
16 Mar 2016
Dave Halls
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Communication expert, international speaker and best-selling author
The cost of poor communication is often far greater than we think. Results from a survey of 400 companies show poor communication cost them a total of more than $37 billion. Other research suggests 30 per cent of projects fail because of poor communication.
01 Mar 2016
Kate Gibson
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General Manager Small Business Banking Australia, ANZ
More than two thirds of Australia's start-ups believe they need funding to survive through 2016, according to the StartUp Muster Report 2015. Plenty of existing small businesses are also on the lookout.
16 Feb 2016
Andrew Cornell
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Past Managing Editor, bluenotes
Australia has the fourth-biggest pool of pension savings in the world and now a government which recognises innovation as critical to economic well-being. But the question then becomes: how can we ensure these funds are used to support Australian innovation in a way that supports both industry and super balances?
22 Jan 2016
Shane White
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Content Manager, Institutional, ANZ
Digital-savvy consumers in the Asia-Pacific region are more likely to adopt new financial technologies than their peers around the world but the same consumers in Australia are lagging below their Asian neighbours, a new study has found.
30 Nov 2015
Sophie Speer
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BlueNotes contributing editor
Mike Greer is a man on a mission to solve Auckland's housing affordability crisis. To do that, the director of Mike Greer Homes is building a lot of houses – thousands of them across the country – and he's doing it in an innovative and revolutionary way.
23 Nov 2015
Nicola Watkinson
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Minister Commercial and Senior Trade & Investment Commissioner South Asia, Austrade
In my role as Senior Trade Commissioner, South Asia with Austrade, I'm often asked for tips on working in the region and my answer is always the same: know the place. Get your feet on the ground. Be prepared to come to India. Come a lot.
27 Oct 2015
Mukund Narayanamurti
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CEO, Asialink Business
As a nation, Australia is linking with Asia in more ways than ever before. It's a development opening up a wealth of opportunities for the business community in the region, particularly small- and medium-sized companies.
20 Oct 2015
Tom Cropper
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Freelance Social Enterprise Journalist
Last year the eyes of the world turned to Hong Kong as the Occupy Central movement set up camp in the city's financial district. However, elsewhere a much quieter revolution is taking place in the form of social entrepreneurism.
19 Oct 2015
Alex Kewley
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Director, Client Insights & Solutions, ANZ
Seeing the black cab drivers lined up in London to protest against Uber earlier this year got me thinking: there is no stopping progress (although in the short term you can obviously cause traffic jams).
13 Oct 2015
Shayne Elliott
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Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
A visit to Silicon Valley is both terrifying and exciting.
09 Oct 2015
Kirsty Quested
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Editor, The Small Business Company
Blonde Robot is a small business with big ambitions. What will stay small however, according to founder and CEO Chris Horsley-Wyatt, are the words spoken within the company's walls. And all Blonde Robots are putting their money where their mouths are.
21 Sep 2015
Christine Wakefield
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Vice President of Global Corporate Payments ANZ, American Express
Disruption is a phrase increasingly bandied around in business circles but what's the real impact of disruption to Australian business and how do they respond in the face of it? Well, the results are in: those who accept disruption are statistically more successful. And those who turn away are just treading water.
15 Sep 2015
Su-Mei Thompson
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Chief Executive, The Women's Foundation
When you look closely at the big issues around women in business – particularly entrepreneurial ones - they often don't lie with the women. It's the men we need to fix.
03 Sep 2015
Shane White
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Content Manager, Institutional, ANZ
The modern use of data has irrevocably changed the nature of business competition, IBM Analytics executive Inhi Cho Suh says, leaving companies in the same sector no longer pitched directly against each other.
21 Aug 2015
Pete Barnao
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BlueNotes contributing editor
Something special is brewing in New Zealand's craft beer industry. Demand for distinctive, quality beer is bubbling over at home but also growing abroad at a rate unimaginable a few years ago.
10 Aug 2015
Andrew Cornell
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Past Managing Editor, bluenotes
BlueNotes would not exist were it not for the ANZ board trip to Silicon Valley two years ago. It was then the board, and ANZ chief executive Mike Smith in particular, saw how powerful the shift to a digital and social world truly was.
21 Jul 2015
Ivor Ries
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Guest columnist; Senior analyst, Morgans Financial Ltd
Although Australians pride themselves on being innovative and able to adapt to new circumstances, the reality is our economy and political processes are slow to adapt to new realities.
09 Jun 2015
Mark Ganz
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Director Client Insights, ANZ
The Australian textile industry is at a vital turning point. With up to 70 per cent of Australia's retailers now sourcing directly from overseas, understanding the upstream dynamics of fabrication and distribution have never been so important.
28 Apr 2015
Matt Boss
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Former Managing Director Products and Marketing, ANZ
Disruption is the buzzword of today and this is nowhere more prevalent than in banking.
13 Mar 2015
Pete Barnao
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BlueNotes contributing editor
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. And the stomach. Maree Glading and Jessie Stanley returned to New Zealand from their big OE in the UK hankering for a good Kiwi steak and cheese pie.
04 Mar 2015
Peter Wilmoth
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Feature writer
In the tightly-controlled rhythm of lunch service at his restaurant glass brasserie in Sydney's Hilton Hotel, chef and entrepreneur Luke Mangan keeps an eye on how the intricate but hopefully almost invisible operation is unfolding.
05 Jan 2015
Peter Wilmoth
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Feature writer
It is 21 years since Carolyn Creswell was an 18 year old babysitter working for a couple who wanted to sell their small muesli business. She and a partner could only scrape together $2000 – which the owners initially knocked back. Today Carolyn is on the BRW Young Rich list.
11 Dec 2014
Shane White
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Content Manager, Institutional, ANZ
Small and medium-sized Australian companies that have fallen off the growth curve are often faced with similar issues, regardless of their industry.
24 Nov 2014
Daniel Flynn
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Co-Founder and Managing Director, Thankyou Group
Social media is changing the world and one Australian start-up has shown just how successful a business can become by approaching it with an effective, if unconventional, strategy.
18 Nov 2014
Olivia Hodges & Jennifer Farmer
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BlueNotes contributing editor & BlueNotes production editor
Miriama Tawalovo began selling fruit juices by the Nabokalou Creek in Suva. She is now the proud owner of three micro-finance businesses in Fiji and an avid entrepreneur.
29 Oct 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
It is no Silicon Valley. But in Surrey Hills, Sydney last week, hundreds of investors, industry leaders and entrepreneurs gathered at one of the high-profile events on the Australian technology start-up community calendar to watch 23 pitches to some of Australia’s wealthiest investors.
15 Oct 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Like thousands of other entrepreneurs, I made a promise. When running my digital media start-up, I had offered a prominent journalist a small stake to lure him away from a prestigious job at a large company.
26 Aug 2014
Jennifer Farmer & Nicole Franklin
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BlueNotes production editor & BlueNotes contributing editor
BlueNotes Debates will bring together important voices across the business, economics and social spectrum to thrash out where the issues lie. They’ll be important but colourful affairs – and Monday’s first stoush was a case in point with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick, company director and gender activist Carol Schwartz, the Australian Financial Review’s Mike Smith (with the event opened by his namesake from ANZ) and BlueNotes associate editor Amanda Gome.
04 Aug 2014
Andrew Cornell
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Past Managing Editor, bluenotes
Maybe for some, the leap from electric fences keeping herds of animals under control to security at Buckingham Palace is not really such a huge one. It’s still a pretty good story though and one that in essence captures the nature of one of New Zealand’s most successful multi-national corporations, Gallagher.
01 Jul 2014
Mark Whelan
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Group Executive Institutional, ANZ
I’ve just read another headline alluding to the fact most start-ups fail. It’s an eye catching line - often accompanied by a sales pitch for services guaranteeing start-ups can avoid the terrible stigma of failure. The problem is the headline’s not true.
01 Jul 2014
Amanda Gome & Nicole Franklin
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ & BlueNotes contributing editor
Australian start-up numbers have fallen an alarming 30 per cent over the last three years, crunching the number of operating firms, according to new figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The alarming fall raises serious questions about whether there is a lack of an enterprise culture in Australia, a threat to long term employment prospects.
12 Jun 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Access to finance can be a major barrier to expansion for many small and medium-sized businesses but when those businesses are run and owned by women that barrier is even higher.
03 Jun 2014
Felicity Costigan
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Journalist and Not-For-Profit Consultant
The key to entrepreneurial success is melding innovation and market niches - easy to say but difficult to deliver. Particularly, the data consistently shows, for women who are under-represented in the ranks of successful entrepreneurs.
02 Jun 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Opportunities for ANZ remain strong in China
02 Jun 2014
Amanda Gome
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Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Guess who is the fastest growing age group running small businesses? No, it’s not geeky 25 year olds who are right at home in Silicon Valley. Nor is it women.
30 May 2014
Nicole Franklin
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BlueNotes contributing editor
Agriculture in Australia: The Asian Food Bowl is real – but it can be harder to reach than many companies think.
22 Apr 2014
Mark Whelan
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Group Executive Institutional, ANZ
Last week on BlueNotes, I shared my concern that as a country we are prone to ignore entrepreneurship at a time when the rest of the world is putting it in the spotlight.
08 Apr 2014
Mark Whelan
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Group Executive Institutional, ANZ
Entrepreneurship is a word largely absent from Australia's national conversation.