Monthly Archives: May 2007

20/05/2007 Posted in Economic Development, Society, Strategy Leave a comment

Hooton puts the boot into Cullen…

By Ben Kepes

An opinion piece in today’s Sunday Star Times by Matthew Hooton, certainly puts the boot into Micahel Cullen. Hooton, disappointed at the quasi-compulsory nature of the Kiwisaver changes announced in this weeks budget, lauded Cullen is a “despised and patronising” politician who “…thinks himself so superior….how limited his own life

18/05/2007 Posted in Blogging, Efficiency Leave a comment

Information overload???

By Ben Kepes

For those of you stressed out by your couple of dozen RSS feeds and feeling guilty at not keeping up with them all, check out the video on this post. You’ll learn some possibly useful tools!

17/05/2007 Posted in Business, Economic Development, Governance, Manufacturing, My businesses, Society 4 Comments

Lets jump off a cliff right now….

By Ben Kepes

A disturbing post here, the crux of which is that it is no longer viable to “mesh atoms” in New Zealand. Unfortunately the growing and value adding of Merino fibre, the production of milk and the manufacturing of world leading hockey goalie protection all falls within the definition of “meshing

16/05/2007 Posted in Branding, Business, Governance, New business, Strategy 2 Comments

Some more Xero feedback…

By Ben Kepes

I saw a post over on Jim Donovan’s blog, and thought I’d make a few comments in response to some of the stuff he’s said. First though a disclaimer – I spoke to Rod Drury the other night and told him that all I am writing is not anti-Xero per

16/05/2007 Posted in Business, Economic Development, Governance, New business, Strategy Leave a comment

Small business expo

By Ben Kepes

Most of you will have seen this but for those who haven’t….. Sarah Trotman & Associates is running a small business expo in Auckland, Wellington and Christchruch over the next few months. All three expos share the same three day format and there looks to be some very valuable stuff

16/05/2007 Posted in Branding, Business, Manufacturing, My businesses, Strategy Leave a comment

Feel the luuuurve…..

By Ben Kepes

Just saw a posting by a Cactus friend James Docherty. It seems we’ve made the “big time” appearing in the Lovemarks newsletter. We’re stoked that what we are doing has garnered some attention – well we always kind of new we garnered attention but it’s nice to see it being

15/05/2007 Posted in New business, Strategy 7 Comments

Viral advertising works…..

By Ben Kepes

Elave, an Irish skincare products company has achieved a perfect 10 score on understanding, harnessing and leveraging off viral advertising and the web community. Utilising a kiwi film and acting crew, CEO Joanna Gardiner created a highly risque and highly effective video ad to be utilised on her own website

15/05/2007 Posted in Business, Economic Development, New business, Strategy 2 Comments

You mean that isn’t the entire whole world??????

By Ben Kepes

I just read here about a UPS run competition to find the world’s best, most innovative SME. Great I thought, Cactus Climbing is definitely small, definitely innovative and definitely (and defiantly) built around a model that provides for sustainable ongoing growth. Why don’t I enter…. I clicked on the link,

14/05/2007 Posted in Business, IT, New business, Strategy Leave a comment

Xero posts – pro, anti and hyperbolic….

By Ben Kepes

I’ve just had a trawl and see there is lot of posting happening at the moment about the Xero IPO. This is understandable given the people involved and the time since the last IT IPO here in New Zealand. Reading some of the posts however it has been a bit

13/05/2007 Posted in Business, New business, Strategy Leave a comment

Does anyone sense a salvo being fired here????

By Ben Kepes

Just reading this I think someone is firing a salvo over the decks of 42 below generally and Geoff Ross specifically. I don’t want to bag either 42 below or Geoff so none of what follows is in any way intended to demean  them or him. However….. Key concept for

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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