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Hi there,
No one could have foreseen the disruption 2020 has brought. The good news is that Australian businesses have surprised themselves with their ability to adapt. And, according to a Telsyte/DXC survey released this week, the tech investments of the past few years prepared them well to both manage disruption and enable a faster recovery.
That shouldn’t come as any real surprise: Tech has long been an opportunity for improved productivity and cost efficiencies. But sometimes, caught up in the day to day issues of business, it can be hard to introduce change. Throw in a pandemic and suddenly things such as work from anywhere aren’t a nice to have but a necessity.
In other news this week:
- The missing millions from data ineptitude
- Why the health sciences are failing on tech funding
- Cookies and the privacy monsters that follow your every click
- NZ politics: digital inclusion versus tech skills development
- Hand coding data manipulation – fast, efficient and fraught
Enjoy the read,
Heather Wright
Editor
editor@istart.com.au
DIGITAL RECOVERY
Businesses eye three-year road to recovery
Tech seen as key enabler to rebound from Covid disruption…
A/NZ businesses have been surprised by their ability to adapt to new ways of working during 2020’s disruptions, but even so, more than half expect it to take up to three years to fully recover.
“The paradigm has shifted, with businesses seeing technology as a gateway to productivity and cost efficiency to aid recovery.”
DATA ECONOMY
Data maturity’s million dollar payoff
Report lays out financial gains while A/NZ companies show tangible benefits…
Upping data maturity comes with big financial gains, but while some companies are reaping the returns, the majority are missing out on the extra 10 percent in annual revenue possible through better data use.
Each step up the maturity ladder was associated with an extra 10 percent in revenue.
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SCIENCE FUNDING
The health tech opportunity being squandered
Academics lacking communications skills to garner health tech investment…
An Australian VC company has sounded a warning for the local life science tech companies saying they're missing out on millions of dollars of funding thanks to an inability to communicate.
“Life science companies should be hitting the ground running, lest they miss out on opportunities.”
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WEB PRIVACY
Crunching the numbers on internet privacy
From ad-trackers to key-loggers to third-party cookies, who’s watching us when we surf the net?…
It’s hardly a secret: Websites track us when we visit them.
A third of all of those websites surveyed contained the Facebook tracking code.
DIGITAL INCLUSION
$16b in tech exports, but NZ failing on digital inclusion?
What’s required to leave no slow digital-adopter behind?…
As the world faces the most sweeping recession in living memory, it’s important to celebrate our wins when we find them.
There’s a lot more to lifting up the vulnerable than suggesting a device in every hand and a connection in every home, and demanding a cheque to match.
DATA MANAGEMENT
Managing your data right in the long run
Handcoding: Fast, low-cost solution or short term fix?…
In the face of fast changing economic landscape and business demands, IT is often tasked to deliver data quickly and precisely.
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
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