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The AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies list recognises and celebrates Australian businesses that are challenging the status quo.

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Woolworths young executive Andrew Cooper at Bloodhound Espresso in Darlinghurst, Sydney on December 19, 2023.

Why this Woolworths executive no longer brings a laptop to meetings

In our Summer Breakfast with the BOSS series, Andrew Cooper, head of transformation at Woolworths Metro, says ditching his laptop for an old-fashioned paper notebook has helped him become more productive in meetings.

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  • Lois Maskiell
Sypac’s chief engineer Ross Osborne, and its CEO Amanda Holt, join managing director David Vicino and founder and chairman George Vicino with one of the drones that have been deployed in the Ukraine conflict.

Cardboard drone maker used in Ukraine is Australia’s top innovator

Sypaq has won the 2023 AFR Boss Most Innovative Companies Award, for its flat packed cardboard drones, which have been serving on the front line in Ukraine.

  • Paul Smith
OPEC’s move to reduce oil production will push fuel prices even higher.

This fintech lets you pay for fuel with bitcoin

A small, but growing, cohort of consumers is tapping their crypto wallets to pay for fuel, powered by a local payments innovation.

  • Tess Bennett

Old hands can be disruptors too

Some of the finalists in the 2023 AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies awards are not start-ups, but companies that have been around for a few decades or more.

  • Sally Patten
Dr Larry Marshall was head of the CSIRO for eight years.

We need to turn invention into innovation

Australian innovation has come a long way over the past decade, but innovation never sleeps, writes Larry Marshall.

  • Larry Marshall

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September 2023

Andrew Laycock, founder and chief executive of Shaype.

Financial services elephants need the little guys

Innovation is hard for banks because of their size and scale. But it hasn’t eliminated the need to be agile, if anything it’s made it more necessary.

  • Ayesha de Kretser
Scott Kirkland with one of EM Vision’s portable imaging devices.

Portable brain imaging company wins healthcare award

EM Vision named the top innovator in the health category in the 2023 AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies list.

  • Sally Patten
Dr Amantha Imber of Inventium

How the judges assessed 700 nominees

The top companies on the 2023 Most Innovative list cultivate cultures enabling innovation to flourish because it doesn’t happen by accident

  • Amantha Imber
Yosuke Hall (in cabin), and Lachlan MacGregor founded Carma in 2021.

For used cars, travel or a game of bowls, the solution is digital

How would you like to shop online for a second-hand car – that has been inspected by a number of experts and can be delivered to your door.

  • Fiona Carruthers
Better leasing: Charter Hall’s Ben Ellis and Rachael Cowper in the Charter Hall owned Pacific Square Shopping Centre in Maroubra.

Charter Hall halves the retail leasing pain

The ASX-listed landlord and developer identified 93 steps across 11 different systems to manage a retail lease. AI and automation changed that.

  • Michael Bleby
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Robots open a path to sustainable construction

This university building used a world-first technological innovation involving the use of a robot to install screw fixings during construction.

  • Prashant Mehra
CEO of whiteGREY Lee Simpson. The agency won the AFR’s Most Innovative awards in the media and marketing category for creating a therapeutic system for family and friends of those who have gone missing.

Ad agency builds a new therapeutic system for psychologists

whiteGREY’s Hope Narratives won the AFR’s Most Innovative Companies award in the media and marketing category.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Elke Pascoe, the founder and CEO of LittleOak, a goat’s milk infant formula company.

‘Protect your dream’, says LittleOak infant formula founder

A goat’s milk infant formula business sprang from a mum’s frustration, but optimism and enthusiasm is now the driving force.

  • Simon Evans

How Guide Dogs caters for all walks of life

The not-for-profit’s new Sydney flagship office is a template for the disability-inclusive future workplace.

  • Sian Powell

How mine safety became a winning strategy for Orica

Automation is helping to keep miners safe, boost productivity and explore risky shafts.

  • Christopher Niesche

This online tool cuts contract red tape to less than an hour

A law firm has created an innovative tool that creates a customised construction contract in a fraction of the time.

  • Prashant Mehra
Cameras being installed and checked - Dr Emma Spencer (right) with a volunteer.

Using AI to help save wildlife after bushfires

Ecologists know that far more data is needed to help species to survive catastrophic bushfires. That is where AI comes in.

  • Sian Powell

These five items drive your electricity bill

Retailer AGL has designed an app to help homeowners figure out how to electrify their homes.

  • Christopher Niesche

Innovation is change that adds value

A panel of industry experts evaluates the innovation based on the problem it solves, and the impact it had, among other assessment criteria.

  • Amantha Imber
It took 18 months, not the typical four: But Mirvac’s Priya Correia led a design process that consulted the local Noongar community on aims of, and uses for, the new park in the Henley Brook estate outside Perth.

Mirvac has created a park that’s always full

Mirvac took four times longer to build a community park, but its success changed the way its development team works.

  • Michael Bleby
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SBS head of corporate strategy Sarah Yassien and design honcho Andy Wong. The special broadcaster was a finalist in the AFR’s Most Innovative Company awards in the media and marketing category.

SBS has a new content plan to speak to all Australians

More than 5 million Australians speak a language other than English at home and SBS can now switch seamlessly into more than 60 languages.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Ryco is a sponsor of the Supercars series.

V8 Supercars gives Ryco extra drive in 4WD owners pursuit

Owned by $1.7 billion GUD Holdings, Ryco tests products in the V8 Supercars races under high-speed conditions.

  • Simon Evans
CSL’s head of research and development Bill Mezzanotte says Hemgenix is life-changing for haemophilia b patients.

CSL cracks the genetic code of haemophilia B treatment

When CSL launched its innovative haemophilia B treatment Hemgenix, patients cried.

  • Yolanda Redrup

May 2023

Lakeba Group CEO Giuseppe Porcelli.

Investors accuse fast-growing venture fund Lakeba of inflating revenue

The technology and software start-up incubator was opaque in the material it provided prospective shareholders, according to filings with a Sydney court.

  • Max Mason

October 2022

Bass Hill Plaza uses Charter Hall’s Autom8 system to collect monthly sales data

Sales data process innovation takes Charter Hall to the top

Charter Hall is the top innovator in the property, construction and transport category in the 2022 AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies list.

  • Robert Harley