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Beyond the Legacy Stocktake

What SMC’s recent engagements show about retaining, fixing and replacing core systems.

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The Model Is the Least Interesting Part

Agents, tools, skills and gates: Why the value and the risk of AI now live in what surrounds the model.

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AI Safety Is a Workflow Design Problem

AI safety isn’t just about the model. It’s about where AI sits in a workflow, what it can access and how much authority it has to act.

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Are you exposed? What your HSEQ technology should help you see before something goes wrong

What should modern HSEQ technology help you manage? Explore risk, controls, corrective actions, safety reporting and signs your HSEQ system may need review.

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Claude Is Watermarking AI Content. Why Should Australian Businesses Care?

Anthropic’s Claude watermarking highlights a bigger issue for Australian businesses: AI governance. As global standards evolve, organisations need clear boundaries around how AI is used, where human judgement sits and who remains accountable.

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Who is actually advising you, and what happens commercially if you take their advice?

The consulting scandals have put conflicts, accountability and trust back in the spotlight. For technology executives making major transformation decisions, they also raise an important question: who is advising you, and what do they stand to gain from the outcome?

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Why some businesses can’t scale AI past the prototype

Many AI prototypes show promise, but turning them into scalable, measurable business value is where the real challenge begins.

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AI Governance Is Arriving Through Existing Laws

Automated decision-making is already embedded in many enterprise systems, often without organisations realising it. These five questions to ask before December 10, will help you uncover hidden AI capabilities, strengthen governance and prepare for evolving privacy obligations.

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Payroll Failures Don’t Start at Go-Live. They Start Months Earlier.

Payroll failures rarely start on payday. They begin months earlier. Discover the governance, testing and executive decisions that determine whether a transformation succeeds or fails.

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The ERP AI 12: An Australian Market Assessment

Rob Stummer's independent assessment of the twelve ERP platforms shaping embedded AI in Australia. Compare vendor capabilities, governance, industry fit and practical considerations for ERP selection and digital transformation

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Payday Super Is Live. Most Organisations Can’t Prove They’re Ready.

A governance checklist for boards, CFOs and payroll leaders. Not another compliance list.

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Australia’s Wage Scandals: A Symptom of Outdated Payroll Systems

The Federal Court’s ruling against Woolworths and Coles reinforced a growing reality for Australian organisations: payroll compliance risk is increasingly becoming a systems and governance issue.

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