Cordelta's Tough Mudder Team
Cordelta has been featured in an article on extreme team building in the April 2013 issue of Management Today magazine. A team of 16 brave Deltoids participated in the September 2012 Tough Mudder event in Sydney. Tough Mudder bills itself as the “premier adventure challenge series in the world.”  

The group was organised exclusively by employees – unlike other businesses who rely on more formal team building. 
 
Managing Director Ken Gutterson was interviewed for the article. Here’s an excerpt:

“We find giving people freedom tends to unleash their potential. It’s surprising what people can do if you give them a
chance, and a lot of companies don’t do that,” Gutterson says.
 
The team that did Tough Mudder came back much more enthused. They raved about team spirit, how they helped each other through the course and how they build new connections as a result.
 
“We have a philosophy of helping our people be more successful, but we have to understand what interests them and what they’d like to pursue,” he says.
Allowing employees to organise their own events and activities based on common interests is just one of the reasons Cordelta was number 7 on the BRW Great Places to Work list 2012.
 
If you want to know more about how to join our Deltoid family, see our Careers section or apply now.
 
 
LIfeline Out of the Shadows
Lifeline, one of the most iconic and trusted brands in Australia, has recently appointed Cordelta to be their technology partner for their entire online presence. Since appointment in late May, Cordelta has redeveloped the Out of the Shadows website for awareness and fundraising surrounding World Suicide Prevention Day - Monday 10 September 2012. The site supports a centralised platform for campaign information, allows people to organise and register for awareness walks around the country, and provides a place for event management, help and promotional material.

Cordelta has also developed an employee information portal helping staff engage with Lifeline's senior management.

“Cordelta is part of the community," said Krishan Jogia, Cordelta's project manager for Lifeline. "By helping essential community services like Lifeline improve their business, our work benefits everyone.”

"Cordelta is very pleased to be able to provide Lifeline with access to our complete portfolio of service and development capabilities, and look forward to helping them drive their important message out to the wider Australian audience."

Read more about Cordelta's continuing work with Lifeline.

 
 
Cordelta are proud to be silver sponsors of the Australia's Health 2012 Conference. The conference, taking place on 21 June, will include the launch of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's flagship report "Australia's Health 2012". Attending the conference will be Australia's policy makers and health researchers from both government and non-government sectors, as well as representatives from secondary and tertiary education, health consumer groups and the media. 

Cordelta has done extensive work in the health and wellness sector, particularly in the emerging issues of data  management, information sets and organisation in clinical and community welfare systems. With the impending launch of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records on 1 July, information management will become a paramount concern for health care stakeholders.

Cordelta's subject matter experts will be on hand at the conference to discuss these developing topics. For more  information about Cordelta's expertise see our Health and Welfare experience and professional service capabilities.
 
 
Cordelta were pleased to be invited by TIBCO to present with Dion Hinchcliffe (author of Social Business by Design) in a Tibbr event: Enterprise Social Networking that coincided with Intranets2012 conference held in Sydney on 16 May 2012.

Our CIO and Director, Matthew Ryan, presented on our use of Tibbr for enterprise conversation behind the firewall.

As a proudly Australian owned and operated consulting firm, Cordelta are experienced users of Atlassian's enterprise wiki platform Confluence, which supports much of our internal collaboration, intranets and external collaboration needs, as part of a broader collaboration platform.

 However, a need was identified to be able to better sustain and foster internal conversations along defined subject streams to help move traffic off email and allow for visible, persisted conversations that our staff could participate in. As a TIBCO partner, Cordelta have been trialling the use of Tibbr, a corporate social networking tool, to address this aspect of our business.

Tibbr has been running internally as a pilot, which allowed for fine tuning of the approach and subject directories. It now supports a wide range of internal conversations occurring along defined topics, with use made of TIBCO's plug-in connector to Confluence. This allows for visible conversations to be integrated alongside business critical content.

Matthew's presentation to the group is now available at http://www.slideshare.net/cordelta/cordelta-tibcopresentationsocial-collaborationintranets2012.

Cordelta are continuously integrating the learnings of this into our Workplace Collaboration service and product development road maps of both Tibbr and Confluence.

[Read more on tibbr's blog]