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How AI Will Transform Project Management

How AI Will Transform Project Management

Summary.   Only 35% of projects today are completed successfully. One reason for this disappointing rate is the low level of maturity of technologies available for project management. This is about to change. Researchers, startups, and innovating organizations,...

How AI Is Revolutionizing Project Management:  Three Use Cases

How AI Is Revolutionizing Project Management: Three Use Cases

Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a buzzword in the business world, with companies discussing its potential to transform how work is conducted at all levels. As a specialist in project portfolio management (PPM), I have read numerous articles and posts...

Job Search

Job Search

FIVE MONTHS AGO, Project Manager Cheryl Needsagig (Substitute name to protect the job hunter who wants anonymity just in case a potential employer reads this)  adopted a peculiar hobby. While her friends met for drinks or played video games to unwind after work, she...

Independent contractor or employee?

Independent contractor or employee?

Commission reminds employers about clarifying contract terms and rights. The Fair Work Commission (FWC) recently dealt with an alleged worker’s claim that he was dismissed and the contract that stated he was an independent contractor was a “sham.” Deon Elliot filed a...

How AI Will Transform Project Management

How AI Will Transform Project Management

Sometime in the near future, the CEO of a large telecom provider is using a smartphone app to check on her organization’s seven strategic initiatives. Within a few taps, she knows the status of every project and what percentage of expected benefits each one has...

Women Facing Homelessness in Australia

Women Facing Homelessness in Australia

Today, I have a few things I’d like to share with you. But before I begin, I’d like to express my thanks.  There are many worthy causes out there all asking for your help and it must be incredibly hard to choose between them, which makes us particularly grateful that...

No Movement On Gender Pay Gap

No Movement On Gender Pay Gap

Employers have made zero progress in closing the gender pay gap over the past year, new data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) shows. Australian women have earned, on average, 22.8% less than men for two years now, meaning employers must step up their...

Men out-earn women, study shows

Men out-earn women, study shows

What can employers do to close the gender pay gap in the workplace? Men earn more than women across every generation, emphasizing an increased gender pay gap, according to the latest Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) census. With the peak at ages 55-64, men earn...

How Australia is failing its highly educated women

How Australia is failing its highly educated women

The education of Australian women has come a long way since they were first able to get access to the country’s universities in the 1880s. By the 1970s, one in three students were female and, these days, they make up more than half. Now, one in two women aged 25 to 34...

Toolkit: Creating Gender Equality through Procurement

Toolkit: Creating Gender Equality through Procurement

Femeconomy has partnered with The 30% Club and leading Australian Board Directors to develop a Gender Equality Procurement Toolkit, to support organisations to implement procurement strategies that create gender equality across their supply chains, and foster ethical...

The Solution To Australia’s Jobs Crunch Could Be Already Here.

The Solution To Australia’s Jobs Crunch Could Be Already Here.

Australian businesses starved of skilled workers could recruit from a pool of more than half a million job-ready women, but only if the next government invests in better childcare, improves access to paid parental leave and drives higher wages in critical industries....