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Navigating the 2025 Microsoft Enterprise Agreement Reset
Microsoft is ending volume discounts on Enterprise Agreements to fund AI investment, forcing executives to shift from price negotiation to value management and governance.
Special report: Options for Microsoft support – Key findings from the peer roundtable: August 2020
In August 2020, IBRS ran a roundtable on the issue of Microsoft Support service, and specifically options for obtaining services in the most effective manner.Â

Australia can build a culture of employee-led innovation – DropEverything – 24 July 2020

Mass deployments of working from home: Lessons learnt
In April 2020, IBRS conducted a virtual roundtable with senior IT executives, supplemented by interviews, to identify the key lessons learnt during the unprecedented mass migration of staff to remote working. The following are the key discoveries and lessons.

Workforce transformation: The four operating models of business intelligence
One of the misconceptions in business intelligence (BI) is that the goal is to capture and report upon all available data. This misses an essential business maxim: data is only useful when it is applied deliberately and with a clear goal in mind.

Outdated work from home policies bog down Aussie businesses – Computer Reseller News – 6 April 2020

Centrelink crashes under demand for crisis payments – Australian Financial Review – 23 March 2020

Designing Next-Gen Workplaces: The Human Considerations
Next-generation workplaces can inspire highly collaborative, high-performing, empowered teams. But this only happens with diligent implementation.
