invested in developing and maintaining with us the right people within the teams ’ culture and Australia Post delivery framework .”
Australia Post collaborates with key providers in the identity products and services space and innovators in developing and deploying biometric authentication and identity assurance solutions worldwide , like Daon with a long history of product development to enable high quality and international standard photo capture . Simongini notes that the business is very careful in its vendor selection : “ We ’ ve invested in a relationship with solid and international companies providing specific , extremely reliable and secure software for our products . We need vendors that keep feeding us with ideas and innovative capabilities that we can leverage , now and in the future , to evolve our level of compliance and digital maturity in what we do .”
Simongini sees a place for startups in the ecosystem , viewing them as offering “ cherry on top ” potential . “ They ’ re not necessarily at the core of our ecosystems , but we definitely see the value in specific and innovative tools in software lifecycle to help us better build , operate and monitor our applications . At Australia Post , we ’ ve learned how to select and groom opportunities with our innovation programme to select ideas to accelerate and incubate before we actually start to invest considerably . Corporations , like Western economies , are often impatient , and moving from innovation to growth takes time and perseverance . We can ’ t just invest in innovation hoping to find the unicorn ; we must carefully analyse the potential and the timing of the commercial return .”
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