In Australia, research companies play an important role in determining the placement of investments in the unit trust sector (analogous to mutual funds in the U.S.) through their ?approved lists? of funds that they consider to be of high quality. Individual investors rely heavily on the advice...

It takes more to succeed in today’s global marketplace. More responsiveness. More flexibility. More commitment. To compete, organisations need their staff to understand business goals and brand values and feel personally committed to their achievement. To flourish, they need their people to...

Technology is rapidly changing the shape of internal communication, as increasingly more organisations make use of email, intranets, ‘extrenets’, databases and the like. The promise of an ‘information superhighway’ has led many organisations to invest heavily in technology, both in terms...

As business communicators, we seek the ‘holy grail’ of our industry — a way to contribute to the bottom line, and demonstrate that contribution in hard business terms. We want the hard evidence to support our belief that internal communication is more than a fashionable ‘nice to have’,...