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Workforce, Skills and Capability

Why workplace wellness is key to organisational success

It’s no secret that the workplace has a huge impact on the physical, mental, economic and social wellbeing of employees. With the average full-time worker spending around 40 hours a week at work, it can be easy to see how the hours spent working can play a vital role in shaping a person’s overall wellness experience. Combine this with a global pandemic and the topic of ‘employee wellness’ becomes ever so crucial. With COVID-19 signalling a huge shift towards remote working, many employees found themselves juggling work, home schooling and house duties. The pandemic has led to less separation between …
Why workplace wellness is key to organisational success
Australia 7 Apr 2021
Industry Trends
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Local Government: Improving Customer Experience and Customer Engagement

With a growing and changing population, David Kerr, the Director of Community and Belonging at Northern Beaches Council in Sydney, says that their council was only formed “four and a half years old through an amalgamation of three councils who effectively had no relationship with each other.” The councils had no relationship, but more importantly, the citizens also had little connection with the councils. So the most important thing that the new council started to do was to “actively listen to our customers, and to be empathetic to the concerns expressed by our customers.” That meant reiterating regularly and from …
Local Government: Improving Customer Experience and Customer Engagement
Australia 1 Apr 2021
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Workforce Mobility and Remote Service Management

One of their main operations is in food services. This critical to any hospital and thus they have “150 food service sites across NSW employing about 4,600 staff,” as well as “three food production units (FPUs)” that produce special and customised meals. All up, they “produce over 24 million meals per year.” Given the nature of the food processing environment, especially in hospitals, it is a “highly regulated” industry with many standards, guidelines and frameworks that need to be adhered to. “However, a lot of work needed to be done to ensure success. To start with, “we worked with BSI …
Workforce Mobility and Remote Service Management
Australia 31 Mar 2021
Industry Trends
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Cyber Security and Risk Management

Benefits of Cloud Security with Transport NSW

Across NSW Government there is a cloud strategy which “states that we must use public cloud first, as the default. We should only use the traditional data centres if it makes sense for our businesses or if we have no other alternative.” However, there are numerous ways to interpret this and there are a number of public cloud platforms. Before delving further, it is therefore important to understand these, and one way to do so is to think of them as “a cloud pizza model.” This was the model that “helped us to overcome and understand it at Transport NSW.” …
Benefits of Cloud Security with Transport NSW
Australia 31 Mar 2021
Industry Trends
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Data, Analytics and AI

Scaling and maturing automation to drive employee and student experience

The main focus of the automation was bots, software programs designed to perform repetitive tasks. But most of these bots “were on individual computers with no consistent coding.” There also wasn’t a lot of control around the bots, but the biggest problem was that there “was a lot of fear from staff around jobs,” specifically that automation could render some roles redundant. Overall, there were a lot of issues and misconceptions. The purpose of automation and RPA is to have “something that is scalable, easy to use and consistent amongst all environments.” Ultimately it is about reducing risks and errors, …
Scaling and maturing automation to drive employee and student experience
Australia 31 Mar 2021
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Digital Services and Customer Experience

Bots and the Future of Customer Experience

Before the pandemic, “it was our country’s fourth largest export industry.” To engage with potential or current students, in 2018 ENZ decided to develop a chat-bot, which is a simulation of a human conversation, using artificial intelligence (AI) features. This was “a relatively new communications channel,” meaning that “there isn’t an established formula or methodology for chat-bot implementations.” However, at the time the agency was in no rush, and Jamie Crump was studying a “Masters of Technological Futures and developed an approach for the chat-bot project.” ““Nobody wants to engage with something that is dull, slow and hard to navigate …
Bots and the Future of Customer Experience
Australia 31 Mar 2021
Industry Trends
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Government Procurement: Creating social value through better business

Australia and New Zealand are well placed to delve into the heart of the new decade in a better position, in a business sense, than both countries were before. Encouraged by their customers and clients, businesses are now looking to act in new and exciting ways, leading to plenty of unrivalled opportunities. B Lab, a global not-for-profit organisation, was founded so that businesses could be used as a force for good, thus leading to greater prospects for local employment, local supply chains and procurement opportunities, and greater environmental impacts. Certified B Corporations (aka B Corps) under the auspices of B …
Government Procurement: Creating social value through better business
Australia 29 Mar 2021
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Data Analytics in Local Government

Local governments, like all public sector institutions, collect lots of data about their citizens. The intention is that the data will be used for good purposes to inform better decision-making, but that is not always the case. In fact, data can be used for nefarious purposes just as easily. This paper brings together three data experts from three local government jurisdictions – two from Australia and one from Canada. With a specific focus on improving the customer experience, each of them provides a perspective on how to manage data, how to work with it better by building technology around it, …
Data Analytics in Local Government
Australia 29 Mar 2021
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