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The importance of succession planning and mentoring future female leaders from day one in a new role

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Succession planning from day one and intentional mentoring are vital to grow future female leaders and safeguard continuity in business.
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Skills shortages persist despite surge in job applicants

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Australia's hiring market swells with applicants, yet firms still battle to secure scarce finance, data, AI and cybersecurity skills.
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Forensic IT names Chris Hatfield as Executive General Manager

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Forensic IT has named Chris Hatfield executive general manager to lead digital forensics amid rising cyber incidents and governance scrutiny.
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Quanton rebrands as AI partner to take pilots to scale

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Quanton ditches pure automation tag to relaunch as an AI transformation partner, promising to help ANZ firms push pilots into production.
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Lánluas appoints new heads for enterprise & public

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TechnologyOne specialist Lánluas names Lorraine Sinnott and Susan Furber to lead enterprise and public sector as it ramps up global growth.
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Elite adds AI tools to 3E to streamline work-to-cash

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Elite upgrades its 3E cloud platform with AI, real-time data and compliance tools to speed law firms' work-to-cash and cut revenue leakage.
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AI early adopters gain edge as readiness gap widens

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AI early adopters gain strategic advantage as global survey finds widening readiness gap and sharper focus on fast-evolving AI risks.
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Nine firms win Deloitte Private Best Managed awards

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Nine Australian businesses spanning travel, retail, construction and tech have been named 2025 Deloitte Private Best Managed winners.
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Opollo buys Propensity Partners to boost tech leads

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Opollo buys Propensity Partners to fuse inbound and outbound marketing into a single demand engine for B2B tech, security and FinTech firms.
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GitLab expands MSP partner push for agentic AI control

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GitLab expands its MSP partner programme to deliver agentic AI-powered DevSecOps as a managed service with strict data sovereignty controls.
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Duke, Axialent launch bespoke 'Building AI-Driven Cultures'

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Duke Corporate Education and Axialent have joined forces on a bespoke leadership programme to help executives build AI-ready cultures.
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Unit4 makes Success4U default model for ERPx delivery

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Unit4 makes its Success4U subscription the default model for ERPx and ERP delivery, promising faster, more predictable SaaS rollouts.
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WiseTech to axe 2,000 jobs as AI reshapes workforce

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WiseTech will cut about 2,000 roles, a third of its staff, as it leans on AI, echoing wider structural job shifts across major employers.
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NZ small firms see strongest sales growth in three years

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New Zealand small firms notch strongest sales in three years as December spending surges and easing interest rates speed up payments.
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AI shapes RFP proposal teams as revenue pressure grows

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Rising RFP volumes are stretching proposal teams, leaving bids unfinished and exposing B2B services firms to mounting revenue risk.
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GenAI misuse & ransomware drive surge in cyber attacks

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Global cyber attacks hit 2,090 a week in January as ransomware surges and risky GenAI use exposes fresh data-leak and intrusion paths.
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TMF boosts margins by GBP £32m with Enate platform

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TMF reports GBP £32 million margin boost after deploying Enate's orchestration platform to streamline services and expand automation.
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Yubico unveils YubiNation Partners identity channel push

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Yubico launches YubiNation partner tiers and expanded training to boost phishing-resistant identity security amid rising breach costs.
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One million professionals now rely on CoCounsel AI

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One million professionals across 107 countries now use Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel AI, as the tool spreads through tightly regulated sectors.
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Compression, redistribution and friction: Three ways AI is shifting lawyers from 'performers' to 'producers'

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AI is speeding legal work, shifting risk upward and forcing lawyers to move from hands-on performers to orchestrators of judgement and control.