Information Technology
-
Business Spotlight: STM
Roulla Yiacoumi | February 14, 2016First 5000 regularly profiles an Australian mid-sized business as part of our Business Spotlight series. It’s our mission to promote and encourage the growth of mid-sized businesses in Australia by shining a light on the success stories.
First 5000 editor Roulla Yiacoumi visits STM’s newly renovated headquarters in Alexandria, Sydney, to talk to the founders about how the business began, its growth into a multi-million dollar enterprise, and the truth behind the STM name.
-
Mid-sized companies still overlooked
Rene Sugo | February 2, 2016Innovation is often seen as the province of agile start-ups or, at the other extreme, global corporations.
-
Why industry needs to team up with researchers
Scott Middleton | February 1, 2016Australia’s low levels of collaboration between industry and researchers have been much discussed.
-
The 6 key trends for the sharing economy in Australia for 2016
Michael Rosenbaum | January 13, 2016Surprised by the take-up and acceptance of sharing economy services in Australia? I see six key trends coming up this year for the sharing economy.
-
First 5000’s Top 12 Blogs of 2015
Roulla Yiacoumi | December 16, 2015Thank you to all of our contributors, members, and readers for making First 5000 the platform of choice for Australia’s top medium-sized enterprises. As yet another year gets away from us, we take a look at the most-clicked stories of the year.
-
3 holiday season business blunders to avoid
Mikki Silverman | December 15, 2015The pressure is on this time of year. So if you’ve left everything to the last minute, here are some tips to keep your business running smoothly while you take a break.
-
Innovation for business: are you up to speed?
Catherine Livingstone | December 9, 2015Policies and programs related to innovation need to be part of a stable national innovation strategy. Catherine Livingstone AO, President of the Business Council of Australia, takes a look at what a culture of innovation means to Australian business.
-
Drowning in worthless data
First 5000 | December 1, 2015Companies everywhere are drowning in data. They are collecting more of it, and at an accelerated pace, while at the same time depending on it more than they have before.
-
We don’t trust you: the real reason you can’t work from home
Roulla Yiacoumi | November 15, 2015Plenty of Australians have decent broadband speeds and computers in the home, so what’s stopping more of us from working from home?
-
When the cyber security threat comes from within
Simon Howe | November 9, 2015As cyber attacks are appearing more regularly in news reports, organisations are slowly coming around to the fact that it has become a case of when they will be targeted, not if.
-
If you don’t have a good intern program, you’re screwed: the current state of play of mid-sized businesses in Australia
Roulla Yiacoumi | November 4, 2015As the editor of First 5000, the only website dedicated to mid-sized business* in Australia, one of the best parts of my job is getting out and speaking to the people who run these enterprises.
-
Why the customer (experience) comes first
Andrew Thornton | October 12, 2015Do you care about your customers? No, really, do you? Do you care about the kind of experience they have with your business? This is why you should.
-
Would your business know what to do in a social media crisis?
Gerry McCusker | October 8, 2015Recently, 60% of global companies admitted they didn’t actually harness social media in the event of an online crisis. Yet if every ‘global company’ is as honest as, say, Volkswagen, we might surmise the actual figure is a fair bit higher.
-
How Augmented Reality will transform customer engagement
Steve Thakur | October 1, 2015You may have seen it in science fiction films, but now Augmented Reality (AR) is coming soon to a mobile phone near you.
-
Why medium enterprises are better at marketing
Phoebe Netto | September 24, 2015Flashy marketing campaigns have a lot in common with a defective Ferrari. They look slick and they’re hard to miss, with coverage enviably ‘everywhere’. These campaigns look great, but under the hood the brands behind them don’t quite get what they pay for. What’s going wrong?