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Here’s why people analytics technology will drive strategic decisions for HR in 2017

However, in order for businesses to make strategic decisions, HR departments are increasingly required to not only understand an organisation’s workforce analytics, more importantly, they need to apply data intelligence company-wide.

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Like it or not, believe it or not, the new era of business is as much about feeling as it is about thinking. As much about trusting as it is about testing. As much about emotion, intuition and instinct as it is about listening, learning & leveraging.

QLD govt bringing in Slingshot for tourism, travel and entertainment accelerator

The accelerator program provides our startup entrepreneurs and business innovators with first-class mentoring assistance while connecting them with investors and potential business partners.

Here is how to grow a machine learning start-up into a big data company...

Christoph Tavan wants to share some insights that he has gathered during the last 3 years while founding and successfully scaling a real-time bidding (RTB) company from a two-person startup to a leading technology provider in the field.

Victorian Government allocates $600k for accelerator to boost Melbourne start-ups

Startupbootcamp received $600,000 for the first year (2016), with the potential of following up funding in the subsequent years. The funds will enable the opening of a hardware lab in Kydo, Melbourne’s IoT and Data Tech Startup Space and will provide the core funding for the launch of the accelerator program in 2017.

The Big Data of You: How your online reputation shapes economic outcomes

However, so far big data has focused on aggregating large data sets that group people based on shared characteristics and behaviours. It’s your similarity to the group that matters, not you as an individual.

Yatango is set to debut on the ASX with a unique business model inspired...

Sydney based consumer technology company Yatango is set to debut on the ASX in June via a reverse takeover of Latitude Consolidated Limited (ASX:LCD),...

Want more text messages? Your fridge, washer and vacuum can help with that [VIDEO]

LG has a vision of the near future. It's one where you can text your fridge to ask if it's got beer. See. Now I...

Five things you need know about the new privacy legislation (before it’s too late!)

Enlightening data is emerging as many firms’ most precious asset. As technologies advance, marketing methods and the where and how data is collected has...

Yes, Big Data is good news for your business, but don’t let its hidden...

The techies over at IT research and advisory firm Gartner Inc have defined Big Data as “high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets”. Some industry observers...

Is Big Data the answer for saturating loyalty cards programs?

Supermarkets are approaching the 10 million mark in rewards membership. Wait a minute, that is nearly half of all Australians over the age of 14. Or nearly all households. And perilously close to saturation levels. Now what?

Just how important is data and information in a business?

When is the last time that you reviewed the status of clients for your business? More specifically, how many of you could answer the following...

Is Big Data more than the word du jour? It’s bringing up big challenges...

Big Data is often touted as the next frontier for businesses, containing a magic that will drive innovation and productivity. Many pundits see it...

Read this in Morgan Freeman’s voice: When big data came, riding a cab was...

goCatch will soon start using big data technology to improve the taxi booking experience of its users across the country.

Just a buzz word or, so much more? How big is big data really?...

The concept of big data has been around for a very long time. So, why is it one of the current buzzwords? And, just how big is big data?

Big data. It’s so hot right now. But, what does it really mean for...

If you're building a business, then you're building a data business. A big data business. Whether you like it or not. But, are you doing it right?

Taming the Big Data beast (Or… “I thought you were into cats. But, it...

Big Data. It’s a double-edged sword. For example, what if that website you visited about “Cats that look like Hitler” led us to believe that you really liked Cats, so we used that Behavioural Data to target you with ads about Cats. But, in reality, you might actually be into moustaches. And Hitler.

Big Data=Big Problem? Perhaps but the times are a-changing

Predictably, the three big drivers toward Big Data have been: employee mobility, cloud computing and social networking. These, along with what is known as the consumerisation of IT, have forced companies to rethink their data management strategy
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