{"id":43632,"date":"2023-10-20T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/finalists-unveiled-for-250k-game-on-comp-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:30:01","slug":"finalists-unveiled-for-250k-game-on-comp-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/finalists-unveiled-for-250k-game-on-comp-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Finalists unveiled for $250k Game On comp – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
Business management software company Greentree International has unveiled the finalists of its Game On competition, which will see 10 Australian companies compete for a $250,000 prize. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The competition, open to Australian SMEs, will see one company walk away with $250,000 worth of business management software, cloud hosting and implementation hand-holding.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Competition entrants were asked to describe their business pain points, the day-to-day problems confronted by their business, and how their growth plans are hindered by inadequate systems.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The company with the most persuasive case will win the award.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Greentree International chief executive Peter Dickinson says the competition attracted entries \u201cfrom companies with turnovers ranging from $1 million to more than $100 million\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThere are many super businesses out there that could perform so much better if they had the right management software,\u201d Dickinson says.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Dickinson, Australian businesses are not the only ones held back by inadequate management systems, citing a research paper published by the University of California.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The paper, titled Building sustainable high growth start-up companies: Management systems as an accelerator<\/i>, highlights the extent of the problem in the United States.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the paper\u2019s authors, start-up companies often fail to meet the expectations of their founders and investors due to their failure to adopt the right management systems and processes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dickinson says the winner of the Game On competition will be decided by a panel of judges and public votes, and will be announced in December.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWhile [the finalists\u2019] work is hugely diverse, they share many common issues,\u201d Dickinson says.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re running outdated, non-integrated systems, they want better visibility of their performance, and are confident they can grow even stronger with better computing power.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cGreentree implementation and cloud partners will work with the winner to ensure seamless implementation and staff training. The prize will transform the winning company.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 10 finalists are:<\/p>\n Business management software company Greentree International has unveiled the finalists of its Game On competition, which will see 10 Australian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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