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  • Yikes! The Ryans are at it again

    August 21, 2009

    Business, Design, Manufacturing, My businesses, New business, New Zealand
    eurekster, globalbrain, grant ryan, project garlic.hera, shaun ryan, sli, yikebike
     

    The Ryan brothers are something of a powerhouse of Kiwi entrepreneurship and innovation. Between them Doctors Shaun and Grant (underachievement obviously being a familial trait!) have set up and been involved in a raft of exciting companies – GlobalBrain,…

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  • The Consumerisation of Design, the Death of Fitness for Purpose

    May 14, 2009

    Business, Design, Manufacturing, My businesses
    Design, nike, niketown
     

    On my way to the United States, US Airways unfortunately misplaced my bag. Faced with the prospect of a week without my stuff i made a quick assessment of what I really couldn’t do without. Top of the list…

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  • What Part of Rampant Consumerism do People Not Get?

    December 16, 2008

    Business, Business and the Environment, Economic Development, Efficiency, Manufacturing, My businesses, Society
     

    Doing the rounds at the moment is a UK Sunday Star Times story about an undercover operation at an Amazon warehouse. Basically the reporter discovered terrible working conditions, very high demands on staff and not allowance for sick days…

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  • Another one bites the dust…

    August 23, 2008

    Business, Economic Development, Manufacturing, My businesses, New Zealand, Society, Strategy
    american apparel, cactus
     

    Its been a few months since I had a rant about the demise of first world manufacturing. Sure there are companies like American Apparel and my own Cactus Climbing creating a brand story out of retaining a first world…

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  • Enterprise software adding value – or not

    July 14, 2008

    Business, Efficiency, IT, Manufacturing, Strategy
    erp, levi strauss
     

    I was a little flummoxed to read that Levi Strauss, the venerable Jeans maker, reported a 98% drop in quarterly net profit last week. Well I wasn’t flummoxed about the drop in profit – these are difficult times after…

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  • Ethical manufacturing is great, until it hits the bottom line…

    June 16, 2008

    Business, Business and the Environment, Economic Development, Efficiency, Manufacturing, My businesses, New Zealand, Society, Strategy
    environment, ethics, icebreaker
     

    I normally refrain from commenting on the domestic vs Asian manufacturing issue on this blog for two reasons; The focus here is on tech, not hard goods Given my ownership of a domestically manufacturing business I’m reluctant to whine…

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  • A plea to Andy Lark….

    June 10, 2008

    Design, Efficiency, IT, Manufacturing
    andy lark, call centre, Dell
     

    Andy Lark is VP marketing at Dell and a Kiwi boy to boot. He’s also a nice guy and tends to listen to what people say. So here goes… We’re needing a new desktop for one of our CSRs…

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  • I want a ThinkPadAir

    April 30, 2008

    Design, IT, Manufacturing
    lenovo, macbookair, thinkpad
     

    Check this out – and come flame me fanboys…. I like it!

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  • Where is the vision….

    April 10, 2008

    Design, Economic Development, Manufacturing, New Zealand, Society, Strategy
     

    I’d been avoiding posting about the recently signed free trade agreement between New Zealand and China. Every time I talk about trade, some readers see it as a last ditch attempt to save New Zealand manufacturing, bolster my own…

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  • On globalisation, M&As and manufacturing…

    March 10, 2008

    Economic Development, Manufacturing, New Zealand, Society
     

    There’s been a fair amount of hyperbole this week over the closure of two carpet making plants in the North Island. To give a synopsis of the situation, a few years ago Feltex carpets went bust. After a length…

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