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Aligning Business and People Strategies

Business leaders spend considerable time and energy developing business strategies and seek to align all business activities to ensure optimisation of effort, business growth and sustainability.  This should always include the people within a business. For example,...

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Sure you can buy direct from China!

Sure you can buy direct from China!

This is an article from Graham Smith CEO Innova Group that he wrote in a LinkedIn forum we thought we would share with you -  Keeping costs low and profits high have always been fundamental in business. One source of low-cost furniture items is buying from China....

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Australian Training Awards

Australian Training Awards

Are you a Furnishing Industry business employer that supports the nationally recognised training programs for your employees? Since 1994, the Australian Training Awards have recognised the outstanding achievements of apprentices, trainees, vocational students,...

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Cyclone Debbie’s Destructive Design

Cyclone Debbie’s Destructive Design

With the aftermath of Cyclone Debbie, our first thoughts are...how can we help? In the furniture industry, we could easily donate furniture from our fabulous Members and networks. However, after further investigation, we have discovered that sadly this is not really...

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Have you heard of Greenfly?

Have you heard of Greenfly?

It is a revolutionary new online tool that helps you design environmentally improved products. It is a user-friendly design support tool focused on real-world design projects. Greenfly incorporates life-cycle modelling and EcoDesign strategies with easy to use,...

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What is Eco Design?

What is Eco Design?

Here is a  quick guide to Product and Industrial Eco-Design that you may like to take into account when you are designing or manufacturing products. http://www.datta.vic.edu.au/sites/default/files/prodindustr_ecodesign_quickguide.ashx.pdf

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