Monthly Archives: August 2007

24/08/2007 Posted in Branding, Strategy 7 Comments

A little dodgy Idealog….

By Ben Kepes

I subscribe to the Idealog RSS feed. I do so because Idealog interests me and the topics they post about are close to my interests. I’m not however looking for a job in the creative industry and that’s why my reader surprised and annoyed me a little this morning. It

23/08/2007 Posted in Business, Economic Development Leave a comment

Any businesses out there who could use $6mill?

By Ben Kepes

There’s a catch…….. Unlimited magazine and UK Trade and Investment are running the $6million investment challenge. The process is; 1. REGISTER: Fill in the registration form before August 31. 2. INVESTMENT CHALLENGE FORUMS: Selected entrants will then be invited to submit a business plan describing plans for growth as well

23/08/2007 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, Governance, New Zealand, Strategy 2 Comments

Lance on Telecom….

By Ben Kepes

A visceral post here by Lance criticising Telecom – the gist of the post is Telecom should learn (again) to walk before it tries to run. This in response to the news that Telecom will seek a replacement CFO for Marko who has, “…experience in mergers and acquisition so it

23/08/2007 Posted in SaaS, Strategy Leave a comment

SaaS – don’t forget the service part

By Ben Kepes

Andy posts over here specifically about some dodgy storage charges Salesforce are introducing, and generally about customer service. While the Larkster gets mighty hot under the collar about this, I have to agree with him. Service providing business should have one measure – customer satisfaction – screwing them around will

23/08/2007 Posted in Society Leave a comment

Where’s the balance?

By Ben Kepes

An interesting post here by Wil – the gist of which is that startup founders never sleep but relentlessly pursue the business opportunity. While Wil has a very good point in terms of focus I do wonder where all this leaves work/life balance? I know all the comments questioning why

23/08/2007 Posted in Economic Development, New business, New Zealand, Strategy Leave a comment

Go figure…

By Ben Kepes

A report out from the OECD has listd a string of areas in which New Zealand is weak, hampering its ability to innovate. The National party comes out swinging blaming the labout government. Two non-surprises; That we’re lacking in innovation enablers That the opposition party blames the Government Can we

22/08/2007 Posted in Blogging, IT, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Bar Camp coming to you from the Garden City…..

By Ben Kepes

Seth over at Interclue has got cracking and proposed a Christchurch Bar Camp unconference in the next couple of weeks. I’m keen on these sorts of things so I’ll be there. If any corporate readers out there feel like sponsoring (or better still coming and talking AND sponsoring) that’d be

22/08/2007 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New business, SaaS Leave a comment

SaaS accounting for Micro business…

By Ben Kepes

I got an email today from Bevan over at 1Place. Their accounting solution targeted at micro business is now up and live and ready for subscribers. Bevan was keen to point out that they are operating in a very different space from Xero, realistically their main target is sole traders

22/08/2007 Posted in Business, Design, New Zealand, Strategy Leave a comment

A nice simple synopsis of the TradeMe story…

By Ben Kepes

Hat tip to MG, he’s posted a slide show and tlk given by Rowan at last years tech-ed. In a similar vein to the Google searching for dummies link of the other day, the TradeMe for those that don’t know slide show is a good simple introduction to the TM

22/08/2007 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0 Leave a comment

Cool….

By Ben Kepes

Check this out. Zoho’s office writing app now has online/offline capability, utilising Google gears (which isn’t yet live on google docs – perhaps due in part to the recent Google pushed Star Office offering). The offline part is read only at the moment but full read/write functionality should come sometime

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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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