I’ve just returned from the trip of a lifetime, a ‘bucket-list’ holiday trekking in Peru, which finished with walking the famous Camino Inka, or Inca Trail. While treading the thousands upon thousands of stones over the 44km that make up the…

If you’re in Australia and aware of the Banking Royal Commission, you’d have heard about Let’s Insure, a division of Select AFSL, taking advantage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in 2015, by selling them funeral insurance. It wasn’t…

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” John Wooden The online etymological dictionary defines character as follows: “The meaning of Greek kharakter was extended…

One has to wonder how some businesses survive at all? Consider this scenario which recently happened to a friend of mine. (To protect identities, let’s call him ‘Fred’.) While working in a solid role for a major food provider, Fred…

Sometimes I feel like Stephen Hawkins, sitting on an event horizon, as I discover and name an emerging phenomena I’ve termed ‘BHP’ – Black Hole People. Like the discovery of cosmic black holes, I’ve observed a marked increase in recent time…

In a previous article, I noted that IIoT hype is creating much confusion and unrealistic expectations, almost as if it’s going to be some sort of silver bullet for manufacturing. I don’t like to be the bearer of bad news, but let me…