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The Telecom seperation debate

April 30, 2007

Economic Development, Governance, IT

I see there have been a few postings in the last couple of days about the whole infrastructure provisioning issue as it related to the structural separation of Telecom. Both Rod Drury and Jim Donovan have posted some interesting…

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EDANZ Conference

April 29, 2007

Business, Compliance, Economic Development

The greater part of next week will see me, in my role as a board member of Enterprise North Canterbury, attending the Economic Development NZ Conference. The theme of the conference is “Growing an Export Economy” and it is…

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Director Find website

April 29, 2007

Governance, New business, Strategy

I see that, following on from his research about governance in New Zealand, Jens Mueller and his team have set up a website as a tool for both prospective independent directors, and entities needing the same, to meet. Now…

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Waving goodbye to the knowledge wave

April 28, 2007

Business, Economic Development, New business, Strategy

The latest issue of Idealog magazine had this excellent piece by Vincent Heeringa. It’s amazing how wowed we were by the Knowledge Wave conference and how little came of it. My contention is that we didn’t have sufficient integration…

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Vector takes stake in NZ windfarms

April 28, 2007

Business, Economic Development, New business, Strategy

Good to read today that Vector has taken (or will if the shareholders agree) a 19.9% stake in NZ windfarms. I’ve hoped beyond hope for awhile now that Geoff Henderson at Windflow would be successful in building an alternative…

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Bruce Sheppard – moving to the other side

April 27, 2007

Business, Compliance, Governance, Strategy

I read tonight that Bruce Sheppard has been appointed to the board of Christchurch bus information firm Connexionz. I wonder how he’ll react to some pesky shareholder holding him to account the way he’s historically held other directors to…

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CEO’s blogs, yadda yadda yadda

April 27, 2007

Business, Compliance, Governance

I just hate all this hyperbole about CEO’s and blogs. I mean if a CEO sees value in having a blog and actually uses it regularly than fine – but if it’s just a trend bandwagon…. Over at No8…

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Xero accounting package

April 27, 2007

Business, IT, New business, Strategy

The fine people over at xero have launched their pay per month accounting software. It’s great to see a web-able accounting package for SME’s but I just wonder how, in this day and age of open source, a closed…

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Hello world!

April 27, 2007

Compliance, Governance, Strategy

Hi all. For awhile now I’ve been thinking, talking and writing about the issues facing small and medium businesses that exist here at the end of the world. We’re distant from markets, have little or no natural resource base…

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The Telecom seperation debate

EDANZ Conference

Director Find website

Waving goodbye to the knowledge wave

Vector takes stake in NZ windfarms

Bruce Sheppard – moving to the other side

CEO’s blogs, yadda yadda yadda

Xero accounting package

Hello world!

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