Interview on the Railway Transportation Systems Podcast Co-Founder of Toustone and Services Delivery Director, Adam Sharp, was recently invited to the Transportation Systems Podcast to discuss his decision intelligence expertise…
Leveraging Data Analytics to Revolutionise Transport Reporting: A Case Study
Author Adam Sharp, Services Delivery Director Visit Adam's LinkedIn ProfileServices Delivery Director and Co-Founder, Adam Sharp talks about how one of Australia’s largest rail operators revolutionised their reporting with Toustone’s…
Let’s get SIRI-ous about Passenger Customer Experience in Transport
Author Adam Sharp, Services Delivery Director Visit Adam's LinkedIn Profile In a world where instant information is becoming more and more important, in fact expected, it goes without saying that…
Tackling Visibility Issues in Business with Advanced Analytics
Author Craig Lefoe, CEO Visit Craig's LinkedIn Profile As any C-Suite professional knows, making informed decisions with clarity and accuracy has a huge impact on strategic initiatives, operational efficiency and…
Transport Big Data Analysis: Transforming Data Points into Actionable Items
Author Adam Sharp, Services Delivery Director Visit Adam's LinkedIn Profile Reflecting on the new National Rail Manufacturing Strategy unveiled at the AusRAILPLUS 2023 conference, I can’t help but think about…
A Distinguished Leader Shares His Insights: Craig Manson
Welcome to a comprehensive repository of decades-worth of business and leadership expertise encapsulated on a single page. Meet Craig Manson, a distinguished Non-Executive Director and Board Chair at Toustone. His…
How Staff Turnover Impacts your Bottom Line and Team
No matter what industry you work in, staff turnover is a costly issue. It incurs major financial costs and impacts the stress level and morale of current staff, affecting your…
A People and Culture Strategist Explores the Value of Predictive Insight
In today's business landscape, predictive insight has emerged as a critical aspect of People and Culture. As organisations aim to make data-driven decisions that can help them attract, retain, and…
2023: Our Founders Share Their Reflections on a Transformative Year
As the year winds down, it's natural to reflect on what we've achieved, the events that shaped us, our teams and businesses, and what lies ahead. Two key figures at…
Proactively Navigating the Future of Energy Transition – Our CEO’s Learnings
Recently our CEO, Craig Lefoe, attended a Directors' Briefing held by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) on the topic: Our Energy Our Future event. ESG and sustainability reporting…
Improving the social component of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework has a significant impact on business performance, especially when it comes to staff retention – yet many businesses…
Understanding how electricity consumption fits into the ‘E’ in ‘ESG’
As businesses strive to thrive in an era defined by sustainability and long-term viability, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting has emerged as a formidable tool. In Australia, the winds…
Revolutionising ESG: Unlocking Performance, Defying Fatigue, and Redefining Benchmarks
ESG reporting has become super important for Australian companies to attract investors and show their long-term sustainability. Australia's new sustainability standards will soon be mandatory, so being open and honest…
A People and Culture Strategist Explores the Value of Predictive Insight
Predictive insight has emerged as a critical aspect of People and Culture. As organisations aim to make data-driven decisions that can help them attract, retain, and develop their workforce. With…
How manual reporting jeopardises your profitability and performance
For most large companies, manually generating reports to evaluate operational performance and service deliveries can take weeks, if not months. How much time do you spend fiddling with spreadsheets, moving…
How big data enables greater opportunities for agribusiness
Growing population, climate change, and increasing costs put huge pressure on the agricultural industry to continue to provide food for our planet while using fewer resources. Agribusinesses must constantly innovate…
How to build a solid data foundation for effective insights
You can be sitting on a gold mine of data but if you don’t know how to extract its value, you’re wasting one of your organisation’s biggest assets! The key…
Decision Intelligence: Practical Application and Benefits for Transportation
In a previous article, we discussed how Decision Intelligence (DI) has evolved from Business Intelligence to deliver more effective decisions and better business outcomes. In short, DI combines the decision-making process with BI and…
Government’s digitalisation endorsement: There’s no better time than now!
The government has recently announced a digitalisation endorsement to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) accelerate economic recovery by embracing a digital data strategy. Investments in cloud computing, e-invoicing, cyber security, and…
Industry 4.0 to 5.0: What it means for Meat Processors and Manufacturers
Wondering what Industry 4.0 and 5.0 is all about? We’re here to explain. Currently, we are living in the 4th industrial revolution – Industry 4.0. This is the age of…
The future of Australia’s agriculture is in smart farms. Australia is the second-largest agricultural area in the world, after China. We have over 85,000 farms using 372 million hectares of land and…
Decision Intelligence has evolved from Business Intelligence to deliver more effective decisions and better business outcomes. Where Business Intelligence tools enable data-driven decisions, Decision Intelligence goes beyond that to combine the cause…
We have talked about what it means to be data-driven. When data drives the decisions and actions of your organisation, you are data-driven. We have also talked about what being data-driven…
We constantly use data to make decisions in our everyday lives. What products we buy, which route we choose to take to our destinations, the content we read and the…
Data is utilised to lead the decision-making process, utilising it properly creates clear advantages. Insights allow you to quickly make the best decisions for the business and predict future trends…
It seems times were simpler when the Cloud was just a fluffy white object in the sky that indicated rain or inspired artists and photographers. These days, everyone talks about…
Five Steps to Increase Customer Engagement with DI
You have the power at your fingertips to turn your customers into brand promoters. Here are our 5 steps to increasing your customer engagement with a DI.
A recent survey reported that IT leaders saw a 41% increase in requests for Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. Gartner reported that in 2019 the BI industry grew by over 10% to $24.8 billion, with…