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CEO Pulse Q1 2012
The Business Spectator CEO Pulse survey is now available.
This research is the best way to understand the positions of some of our nation’s most influential business leaders.
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See below to download previous CEO Pulse reports.
CEO PULSE: Budget surplus shouldn’t be top priority
Top CEOs give support to policies on IR flexibility, Chinese trade.
6 Mar 2012 8:41 AMCEO PULSE: Time to slash the surplus
COMMENTARY:Australia's CEOs would prefer Treasurer Wayne Swan act like a CFO, cutting costs to reflect tough financial times – even if it means axing the NBN and forgetting the budget surplus.
6 Mar 2012 7:36 AMCEO PULSE: Sweating the productivity question
COMMENTARY:Australian CEOs are seeing rays of sunshine amid economic gloom, but their long-standing concerns over staff shortages are being outweighed by a different issue.
13 Dec 2011 10:35 AMCEO PULSE: Australian dollar rise has hurt local economy
Assessment of govt improves; focus shifts from sourcing skilled staff to improving operational efficiencies.
13 Dec 2011 6:53 AMCEO PULSE: A vote of no confidence
COMMENTARY:The mood of Australia's CEOs is fast deteriorating, and their view on the carbon tax doesn't make pretty reading for the government. But the tax isn't the only thing troubling them.
6 Sep 2011 10:30 AMCEO PULSE: Stuck in a productivity trap
COMMENTARY:Australian CEOs are waking up to the need to increase productivity, but first we must find a way to measure it. Meanwhile on video, James Kirby interviews Saul Eslake, Grattan Institute's productivity director, on the crisis unfolding across Australia.
6 Sep 2011 10:25 AMCEO PULSE: Productivity should be Gillard’s top priority
Australia’s top CEOs say decline must be addressed to ensure sustainable prosperity over the next 15 years.
6 Sep 2011 7:39 AMCEO PULSE: Giving up the Gillard ghost
COMMENTARY:The two-speed economy is starkly evident in the Business Spectator Accenture CEO Pulse survey, with a greater number of Australia's top tier chiefs expressing deep concern about Gillard government policies and the future.
8 Jun 2011 10:45 AMCEO Pulse: Confidence in economy declines
Top executives continue to rate govt poorly on economic management.
8 Jun 2011 7:23 AMCEO PULSE: A polluted process
COMMENTARY:Australian chief executives aren't prepared for a carbon price, but how could they be? Political leadership failures and opportunism have dominated climate change policy, leaving our business leaders in perplexity.
8 Mar 2011 10:24 AMBusiness unprepared for carbon price
CEO Pulse survey shows confidence in Gillard slipping.
8 Mar 2011 7:38 AMCEO PULSE: Walking the prosperity plank
COMMENTARY:Australia's corporate skippers, undeterred by potential economic headwinds, are expecting to sail through 2011. But all this optimism and talk of prosperity is more than a little unnerving.
7 Dec 2010 10:13 AMCEOs confident on economy
Business Spectator-Accenture CEO Pulse survey shows execs believe China will continue to drive growth.
7 Dec 2010 6:56 AMCEO Pulse: Rising Australian dollar bad for economy
Chief execs report rise in confidence in Gillard govt.
26 Oct 2010 8:00 AMCEO PULSE: Labor's growing labour crisis
COMMENTARY:The issues that will dominate the biffo in Parliament – climate change and tax – are virtually irrelevant to Australia's businesses leaders. What worries them much more is whether the government can address Australia's skilled labour shortage.
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- CEO Pulse Report 1 (February 2010)
How CEO's see the future; what they'd tell Kevin Rudd and more- CEO Pulse Report 2 (March 2010)
How CEO's see the economy; what they'd tell Tony Abbott and more- CEO Pulse Report 3 (April 2010)
How CEO's see the economy; what they'd tell Wayne Swan and more- CEO Pulse Report 4 (May 2010)
How CEO's see the economy; what they'd tell Malcolm Turnbull and more- CEO Pulse Report 5 (June 2010)
How CEO's see the economy; what they'd tell Prime Minister Julia Gillard and more- CEO Pulse Report 6 (July 2010)
How CEO's see the economy; what they'd tell Julie Bishop and more- CEO Pulse Report 7 (August 2010)
How CEO's see the economy; Election 2010 Special- CEO Pulse Report 8 (September 2010)
How CEO's see the economy; What they'd tell Bob Brown and more- CEO Pulse Report 9 (October 2010)
How CEO's see the economy; What they'd tell Glenn Stevens and more- CEO Pulse Report 10 (December 2010)
CEO Predictions for 2011- CEO Pulse Report 11 (March 2011)
CEO's preparedness for the introduction of a price on carbon- CEO Pulse Report 12 (June 2011)
Social media and how organisations use it- CEO Pulse Report 13 (September 2011)
Productivity and Prosperity in Australia- CEO Pulse Report 14 (December 2011)
The strength of the Australian dollar




