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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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  • 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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  • Bruce Sheppard – moving to the other side

    April 27, 2007

    Business, Compliance, Governance, Strategy
     

    I read tonight that Bruce Sheppard has been appointed to the board of Christchurch bus information firm Connexionz. I wonder how he’ll react to some pesky shareholder holding him to account the way he’s historically held other directors to…

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  • CEO’s blogs, yadda yadda yadda

    April 27, 2007

    Business, Compliance, Governance
     

    I just hate all this hyperbole about CEO’s and blogs. I mean if a CEO sees value in having a blog and actually uses it regularly than fine – but if it’s just a trend bandwagon…. Over at No8…

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  • Xero accounting package

    April 27, 2007

    Business, IT, New business, Strategy
     

    The fine people over at xero have launched their pay per month accounting software. It’s great to see a web-able accounting package for SME’s but I just wonder how, in this day and age of open source, a closed…

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