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1 week ago | 
aicd.com.au | Elise Shaw
Challenges ahead for reaching emissions reduction targets. Australians are buying fewer plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) following the removal of the fringe benefits tax (FBT) exemption for these models at the end of March. Plug-in hybrids represented 2.9 per cent of sales in April, down from 4.7 per cent of sales year to date to March 2025.
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1 week ago | 
aicd.com.au | Elise Shaw
Does your board use AI to take minutes? Directors must weigh the efficiency and accuracy AI promises against concerns of confidentiality and data security. This AICD–Governance Institute guide will help. Taking the minutes is a necessary part of every board meeting. If your board is using AI, what governance procedures do you have in place?
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2 weeks ago | 
aicd.com.au | Elise Shaw
AICD managing director and CEO Mark Rigotti calls for boards to be better prepared for cyber incidents and to be aware of the potential scale of the issue. Directors have a significant role to play in developing policy on cyber. They are at the apex of the companies being threatened.
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1 month ago | 
aicd.com.au | Elise Shaw
What strategies can directors apply when faced with complex issues? Embrace complexity as threat and opportunity. In its simplest form, it suggests the decision maker is struggling to reliably predict the outcome of their actions. Contrast this with complication, which you may solve through analytical capability. A different mindsetWrestling with complex decision-making calls for a mindset dedicated to continuous learning through experimentation.
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1 month ago | 
aicd.com.au | Elise Shaw
Executive directors are uniquely positioned as both senior executives and board members. This dual role offers enormous opportunities... and potential pitfalls. Here’s what to look out for. Executive directors wear two hats — that of a company employee, usually a senior executive, and that of a board member. On top of their full-time executive position, they are appointed to the board.
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1 month ago | 
aicd.com.au | Elise Shaw
China offers opportunities and obstacles, says Heidi Dugan MAICD, who helps businesses navigate this complex landscape. She is founding director of Arete Group and a University of Southern Queensland councillor, but Heidi Dugan is also a TV host who has carved out an enviable career in business, advising international companies and executives on trade, market strategies, media and the foreign work culture in China.
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1 month ago | 
aicd.com.au | Elise Shaw
Australian organisations have made significant strides in prioritising physical work health and safety. It’s important for boards to bring the same level of focus and oversight to psychosocial risks. Risk management is a complex space. When you overlay the aspects of mental health and managing psychosocial hazards in the workplace, it becomes particularly tricky.
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1 month ago | 
aicd.com.au | Elise Shaw
Boards are a human business and no-one can be blemish-free, writes Robyn Weatherley AAICD, author of Eyes Wide Open: A First Timer’s Guide to the Real World of Boards and Company Directorship. 1. A board needs to be able to make the hard callsThe inability to manage interpersonal conflict has undone the careers of many an eminent chair, board and CEO. The longer you leave it and labour the decision, the harder it will be to execute on the call.
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2 months ago | 
aicd.com.au | Elise Shaw
Cyberattacks are escalating in speed and sophistication. Employees susceptible to social engineering have proved vulnerable, despite organisations working to strengthen their cyberattack defences, according to the CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report. Adversaries target workers and systems lacking modern security controls. Once inside, they move across networks to execute attacks. The fastest breakout observed took just 51 seconds, with an average of 48 minutes, says the report.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
forbes.com.au | Shivaune Field |Mark Whittaker |Elise Shaw
Published on February 25, 2025 Sixty-six per cent of organisations in Australia are under-prepared to manage their workforce, according to Deloitte. That risk is compounded by the prevalence of contracted labour and reliance on simplistic digital tools. “I am an efficiency freak and I hate waste,” Matt Smith tells Forbes Australia.
