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Myles Glashier, our co-founder and co-CEO explains the evolution and development of Phocas on the popular podcast,'Scaling Up'. Myles chats with Ed Cowan about the story behind the data analytics business. The genesis for Phocas came when Myles was a backpacker in London and met ERP owner Paul Magee. The two co-founders have stuck together over 20 years, bootstrapping a subscription-based business intelligence software company into a global success story. If they had one rule, it's culture matters.

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Topics: Industry - Manufacturing, Industry - Wholesale Distribution, Job Role - Sales, Company Updates, Job Role - Executive, Industry - Retail, Job Role - HR

'Culture Bites', is a podcast created by culture experts, Human Synergistics. Phocas leaders, Myles Glashier and Karen Hailwood feature in the episode called Phocas. Please have a listen to find out how culture was influential at Phocas before the founders knew what it meant. They explain the evolution of the tech company’s culture, why it now has a data-supported view of it and how Phocas has maintained a fun and fulfilling ethos during rapid growth and change.

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Topics: Job Role - Executive, Job Role - HR, data analytics, Culture

When our CEO explains to his young kids what his day looks like tomorrow — presenting at an APAC culture and leadership conference about enhancing the Phocas culture during rapid growth — they think it sounds boring. So, in typical Phocas fashion, 'Marvellous Myles', the co-founder and co-CEO and 'Keeping-it-real Karen', chief people officer took on the challenge of making the presentation lots of fun. The outcome is an honest discussion packed with excellent insight into Phocas’ data culture, explaining the levers Phocas uses to make people feel good about data – inside and outside of the business.

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Topics: Job Role - Executive, Job Role - HR

If you ask Phocas people why the company is successful, most will say it's because of the culture.The Phocas culture has always been influential because it was fostered and prioritized from the inception of the company. Myles Glashier, co-Founder and co-CEO and Karen Hailwood, Chief People Officer are keynote speakers at the Human Synergistics' Asia Pacific Virtual Culture and Leadership conference. They'll share how the data analytics business has evolved the culture as it transformed from a bootstrapped start-up to an established global company. 

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Topics: Job Role - Executive, Job Role - HR

Ever had a staycation get out of hand? It started as a bit of fun, activities to keep the kids amused in lockdown. Suddenly, each day was more outrageous and imaginative than the last. The travel ban has been a major restriction of the quarantine but Phocas founder and co-CEO, Myles Glashier and his wife Babs, a former advertising creative dreamed-up an around-the-world adventure.

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Topics: Job Role - Sales, Job Role - IT, Job Role - Executive, Job Role - HR

End of year celebrations and Christmas are great opportunities to catch-up with friends and family. We all love the traditional food, rituals, music and presents. But for many it can be a less than positive experience as they battle homelessness or illness. To help people in our local communities, Phocas staff extend our culture beyond business and the office.

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Topics: Job Role - Sales, Job Role - Executive, Job Role - HR

Phocas received a Human Synergistics award for achieving a ‘constructive’ culture during three years of fast change. Phocas staff are happier, more capable and more collaborative in 2019 from an already strong starting position in 2016.  A motivated team also produces great results, so another positive outcome was 55% revenue growth across the company.

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Topics: Job Role - Sales, Job Role - Executive, Job Role - HR, Press release

“Free BI trial, data anytime for free, free data insights”– these offers are tempting business people all the time especially as new data analytics software players enter the market and want cut-through. 

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Topics: Business Intelligence Basics, Job Role - Sales, Job Role - Executive, Job Role - HR

Research by IBM shows that executives who implement analytics develop a more collaborative, creative, and innovative company culture, and consequently, a more profitable enterprise.

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Topics: Business Intelligence Basics, Job Role - HR

Having a high employee turnover rate is damaging for a business' culture as well as its profitability. 

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Topics: Strategy, Management and Performance, Job Role - Executive, Job Role - HR