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A new economic development tome….

June 16, 2007

Economic Development, Governance, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

Random House has just published a new book by Steve Carden from McKinsey and Co. The book is titles “New Zealand Unleashed, It’s future and the people who will get it there”. In the words of the publisher, the…

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Is distance dead?

June 15, 2007

IT, Society

I was having a read of Sandy Mamoli’s blog today and see she has just got a job at Fronde, the CEO of which is none other than Jim Donovan who is also a great NZ business blogger. Imagine…

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Those Morgan overachievers…..

June 15, 2007

New business, New Zealand, Society

Gareth Morgan has just launched a Kiwisaver fee calculator page so we can all do an assesment of the best provider for our particular situation. The Gareth Morgan Kiwisaver product looks compelling – any neutral parties out there care…

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International ideas incubator????

June 14, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Governance, IT, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

A very brave post here. In New Zealand are we selling ourselves short and becoming the low-cost innovation locale for other countries? Only to lose the innovations through acquisitions? And how much value do serial entrepreneurs really bring the…

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New Xero CFO….

June 14, 2007

Business, New business, New Zealand

Just heard that Xero have appointed Paul Gardener as CFO. Paul was formerly at Phitek and would seem to have the clout needed to scale a publicly listed company. Hamish Edwards, founder and former CFO, will now fill the…

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Governance for hi-tech businesses….

June 13, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Governance, IT, New business, Strategy

I had a meeting today with some of the players at Connect New Zealand. Among the topics discussed was the need to increase the quality of governance of hi-tech businesses, particularly start-ups. Given my association with Economic development agencies,…

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Cool….

June 12, 2007

Branding, Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, Strategy

Sony yesterday filed a patent application for a phone with gaming functionality. Seems Sony is smarting that the Apple iphone is getting all the hype at the moment and came up with something of their own. I wonder if…

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Bollard really really has balls…..

June 12, 2007

Business, Economic Development, New Zealand, Strategy

News that the Reserve Bank yesterday intervened in the currency market and sold a bunch of NZ dollars in order to bring down the “unjustifiably high” level of the Kiwi dollar. I’m not entirely sure that the move will…

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Incubatorial excellence…

June 11, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, Governance, IT, New business, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

Vincent Heeringa with another of his well thought out articles here. As I’ve commented in the IdeaLog blog, Israel would be a good model for NZ to look at. It’s a country similarly lacking in natural resources and is…

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You have to laugh…

June 10, 2007

Business, Governance, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

Click here. Well I reckon its funny anyway!

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A new economic development tome….

Is distance dead?

Those Morgan overachievers…..

International ideas incubator????

New Xero CFO….

Governance for hi-tech businesses….

Cool….

Bollard really really has balls…..

Incubatorial excellence…

You have to laugh…

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