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‘Tis better to remain silent?????

May 2, 2007

Society, Strategy

“Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” – Dr. Samuel Johnson An interesting post here about, to simplify, shutting up or spouting off. There exists an interesting incongruity…

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Connect NZ/Institute of Directors function…

May 1, 2007

Business, Governance, IT, New business, Strategy

In between EDANZ conference lectures I attended the IOD/Connect NZ function around the subject of “Governance for Hi Tech businesses”. Wayne Norrie, CEO from Revera started out by giving his view on what a great thing an independent Board…

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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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Is Carbon trading the way forward?????

April 30, 2007

Business and the Environment

For awhile now I’ve been uncomofrtable about the whole carbon trading dialogue – it feels to me like greenwash, whereby middle class consumers can feel themselves absolved of guilt by making some token gestures towards environmentalism. I’m uncomfortable for…

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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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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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‘Tis better to remain silent?????

Connect NZ/Institute of Directors function…

EDANZ day two…..

Software of excellence to be sold…

EDANZ Conference report day 1…..

Is Carbon trading the way forward?????

Well at least Rod Oram and I agree……

The Telecom seperation debate

EDANZ Conference

Director Find website

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