Moving Boards From Good To Great

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

What does it take to move a good board to becoming a great board? A recent publication from the PWC governance Insights Center (read it here) provides a series of questions that guides you through this very process. This excellent article is easy to read and provides great guidance and …

Change Successfully

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

If it’s not one thing, it’s another – either technology is changing, structures are changing, or the economy, or all three at once, or something else again. So when leadership announces to employees another organizational change, is it any wonder there is usually a collective groan from change-fatigued workers who …

ABS Students Test Online Ordering Platforms in the Classroom

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Students in BBUS22070 Management of Information Systems tested the online platform of ordering pizzas used by “Dominos”. They tracked in real time the process of ordering, making, transporting and ultimately delivering of the pizza. The class used the experience to test the reliability of the online platform, from the initial …

ABS Presents at International Business Research Conference

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

The 10th Sydney International Business Research Conference was recently held, where the conference Chair was Associate Professor Niloufer Selvadurai, who is an expert in Intellectual Property Law from the Macquarie University Law School. Seen here with Associate Professor Lisa Barnes who was also invited to the Conference as a Keynote …

ABS Joint Research Project with Alphacrucis College

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Avondale College is partnering with Alphacrucis College on a joint research project entitled: “Women in Higher Education Institutions: Constraints and Enablements”. The project arose from the invitation extended by the Avondale Women’s Group to Professor Lily Arasaratnam-Smith who is the Deputy Vice President Student Affairs and Chair of Academic Board …

Book Review: Visioneering

Sunday, March 24, 2019

Creating his own word, Visioneering, Andy Stanley provides an excellent process for finding your own vision and translating that into a leadership context in his revised book Visioneering: Your guide for discovering and maintaining your personal vision (2016, Multnomah). Stanley is emphatic on the importance of personal vision as a …