Queensland Company takes out national start-up award
South Brisbane-based information management company Glentworth has ranked in the top 15 fastest-growing businesses in the 2012 Start-Up Smart Awards, ranking second in the state.
The annual Start-Up Smart Awards are open to the most innovative and promising Australian businesses and recognise the top 50 fastest growing in a range of industries across the country.
Establishing his business in 2006, Managing Director Neil Glentworth said the concept was born after he identified the need for information management as a professional service.
New thinking to speed up disaster response
Front-line disaster information has emerged as a key element for natural disaster response, according to Queensland’s Flood Commission of Inquiry Report released today. A year on from one of the greatest natural disasters in Queensland history, the Report has shown the poor flow of information between local, district and state disaster management groups during the 2011 floods greatly hindered the state’s disaster response. Queensland enterprise information management specialist Neil Glentworth said the 2011 floods highlighted the need for a radical overhaul of information management to help minimise the effect of natural disasters.
Rio Tinto Information Managment
A global resources company with approximately 77,000 employees and interests in over 40 countries was experiencing significant growth and undertaking three major new mining projects in remote parts of the world. Due to previous mergers and acquisitions and the continuing growth of the Group, there was no standard approach or guidelines for managing information and knowledge across the various product groups and business units.
Glentworth rising in national business ranks
Glentworth has ranked as one of BRW’s ‘Fast Starters’ for 2012, coming in among some of the most innovative, new Australian businesses.
The award, which is open to the most profitable and fastest growing businesses in Australia, whilst increasing revenue from 2010 to 2011.
Information key for Logan City Council residents
With customer service a priority for every council, Logan City Council has taken their commitment to the next level, engaging information management specialist Glentworth to help make their customer information as relevant and accessible as possible.
Aiming to improve the customer service response, Logan City Council had traditionally focussed on their technology systems but under the guidance of Glentworth have now overhauled the actual information they supply their customers, and how it is gathered.
The ROI of Architecture Frameworks!
Ask any Enterprise Design expert, and they will tell you that implementing and managing a well-integrated enterprise information management system is never an easy task. Building such a successful system would essentially entail that it be built over a successful information architecture model.
Seizing the Information Opportunity in 2012
In today’s organisations, information is a valued business asset and when exploited effectively it can act as a key differentiator in driving their success.
It’s quite simple really - information matters in your business!
Information drives your business and works as your greatest asset. It provides key inputs for quality decision making. It helps drive efficacy within your business (makes money), reduces wastage and redundancies (saves money).
Shareholder growth from Unstructured Data
Data drives organisation processes – moving through structured and unstructured formats, providing key information for effective process management and enabling valuable business insights to management for improved decision making and business innovation.
Leveraging Big Data for Business Growth – How and Why?
The effective harnessing of available information holds the key to newer ideas, innovative solutions and possibly the next strategic breakthrough. To build this competitive edge, therefore, businesses will need to focus beyond the obvious channels of information and look into the wider environment within which the information is being generated.
