You may have noticed the relative dearth of communication from yours truly in the past few days. I got myself a new laptop running Vista Business which, from first impressions, kind of seems like MacOS five years ago without…
I’ve been busy and haven’t been around to post of late. News however that Sir Angus Tait dies this morning. His passing is a huge loss to the Christchurch/New Zealand electronics sector in particular and manufacturing/industry in general. It…
Jim pointed me to this article which discusses that fairly vitriolic attack that John Walley from the Canterbury Manufacturers Association made against Business New Zealand and the Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce among others. The gist of the attack…
I’ve received a bit of feedback since my post the other day regarding the Government’s role in helping to grow enterprise in New Zealand. Jim in particular strongly feels that help should be given to medium size businesses instead…
Not really a pitch but here’s a vid (complements of Idealog and Youtube) of edited parts of Rod’s talk given to the AUT/Idealog innovation series recently…. Interesting stuff for those who want to follow the same path (or at…
Someone else has identified what I’ve been saying for years in that the Government strategies for supporting small and medium size businesses are woefully ineffective. For a long time now I’ve felt that the Governments strategy of creating 100*$100mill…
LWR has extended it’s takeover offer for POD yet again. meanwhile POD announced that it’s prospective sale of a 3.58hectare industrial site has been withdrawn. Why do I smell a rat?; The property sale was reported to be a…
Phil Wainewright has this excellent post over on ZDNet where he coins the acronym SoSaaS, standing for “Same old Software, as a service”. In his post he differentiates between true SaaS products which are engineered from the ground up…