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  • EDANZ day three…

    May 2, 2007

    Business, Economic Development, IT, New business, Strategy
     

    Interesting discussion about the role of incubators to give start ups in New Zealand a helping hand. Chris Kirk from Lincoln Uni gave some statistics on the value gained by giving start ups an environment where they can be…

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  • EDANZ day two…..

    May 1, 2007

    Business, Compliance, Economic Development, Governance
     

    Today started with a very interesting lecture by Mike Burrell, CEO of Aquaculture New Zealand. He started out by mentioning the quote Peter Drucker made shortly before he died (and before the Dot Com Bubble Burst). He stated that…

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  • Software of excellence to be sold…

    May 1, 2007

    Business, Economic Development, IT
     

    I see NXZ listed software company Software of Excellence looks set to be bought out by a Northern hemisphere competitor and delisted. There are two potentials here; The sellers take the money and reinvest it into new startups which…

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  • EDANZ Conference report day 1…..

    April 30, 2007

    Business, Economic Development, IT
     

    Well…. Day one held an interesting variety of speakers. The highlight was Andy Lark who gave an interesting (if, IMHO, slightly biased towards the IT viewpoint of things) presentation. To paraphrase he identified a number of paradoxes for NZ…

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  • Well at least Rod Oram and I agree……

    April 30, 2007

    Business, Economic Development
     

    Interesting to read Rod Oram’s editorial in the SST yesterday. Specifically his comments that our laggardly performance in terms fo GDP growth may possible\y be due to “failure of ambition, management skills and strategy” in our businesses. I’d go…

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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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  • 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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