• ANZ Chair in Business Growth. Director, Australian Centre for Business Growth, Adelaide University
Australia is getting better at encouraging people to consider a startup. Image sourced from Shutterstock.com

It takes a community to raise a startup

Australia is still far too ‘arms-length’ from the process of starting and growing companies.
The importance of data and “just-in-time” decision-making may mean the background of CEOs could change. Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

Is CIO the new route to chief executive’s suite?

Finance backgrounds have traditionally been the preferred skills for an aspiring chief executive. But in the age of Big Data, that may be changing.
Many governments are realising high-growth tech companies have the keys to their country’s economic future. Peter Dasilva/EPA/AAP

We need to put high‑growth tech companies on the G20 agenda

The world was a very different place in December 1999 when the first G20 met in Berlin. Steve Jobs had just taken back the reins at Apple, but Facebook, Google, Twitter and the dot-com bust were figments…

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