Currency Management

Opinion: Why a strong currency can be good for business

By Yoke Har Lee-Woolf

Learning how to live with a strong currency

Investment

Opinion: Investment wisdom

By Lance Wiggs

Investment wisdom from Idealog’s favourite agony uncle

Working well - Why creating a culture of wellness is great for your bottom line

By Melanie Cooper

It’s a no-brainer that happier, healthier, stress-free employees will take less time off work and be more productive. But what should an employer be doing about producing these paragons of wellness – and will it work?

Health/Wellbeing

Much ado about nothing: How doing nothing can be great for your bottom line

By Penelope Whitson

Penelope Whitson examines her own inner sloth and discovers doing nothing is good for business.

Brand

Brand obit: how do you describe the rich tapestry of life that a business can become?

By Vincent Heeringa

Try doing a eulogy about your brand. You may discover a whole new life.

Cloud

The dark side of the cloud

By Vaughn Davis

Your business can be anywhere in the world – so why would your talent choose New Zealand?

Education

Educating for a future we can't imagine

By Deirdre Coleman

How and why we educate students today has a direct and fundamental bearing on the world they will create for the future. So let’s consider something: are we doing it right?

Profile

A need for speed: the furious rise of one slick geek

By Elly Strang

By the time he was nine, Danushka Abeysuriya and his family had experienced nick-oftime escapes from not one, but two, war zones. Not surprisingly, this gave him a non-traditional view on risk, and he founded his own game development company at the tender age of 24. Four years later the company has 20 staff and counts Microsoft, TVNZ, Samsung, Heineken and National Geographic among its clients.

Startups

Developing a (big) can of worms

By Johan Chang

Grimy worms upcycling organic waste into fertiliser seems to be the way of the future – at least it won the hearts (and pockets) of venture capitalists at a recent student entrepreneur competition.

Architecture

Matter Architects puts design first to create hot office property

By Callum Sweeney

Idealog looks at how office design has affected this architectural firm's company culture.

Idealogic

The morbid art of black humour: death as defined by some wacky numbers

By Idealog

Only three things in life are inevitable, dear Idealog readers: death, taxes, and magazines using tired old quotes

Feature

Life and death over chocolate milk: the madness of Lewis Road

By Nikki Mandow

Chocolate milk madness. WTF?

Trade

Opinion: Could we be missing a trick in India?

By Pattrick Smellie

NZ-India bilateral trade

Technology

How a company turning algae into supplements attracted over $7 million from investors

By Elly Strang

Nelson-based Supreme Biotechnologies grows a unique type of micro-algae and turns it into dietary supplements. Now the company is growing as fast as its product.

Mike Hutcheson: Where do ideas come from?

By Mike Hutcheson

Where do ideas come from? An interesting question that, particularly for a columnist faced with a looming deadline and writer’s block.

Economy

Do we really have a rockstar economy?

By Fiona Rotherham

“I won’t be a rock star,” said Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury. “I will be a legend.” A year after Sydney-based economist Paul Bloxham gave New Zealand’s economy its “rock star” status, Fiona Rotherham asks whether we truly have a rock star economy, whether legendary status is a possibility, or whether we’re going to start slipping down the charts in 2015

Would you like beer with that?

By Idealog

The advent of summer means breaking out the eskie and packing cold beer for the beach. Maybe that’s why food companies are incorporating beer into all sorts of unexpected things. Here are a few we sampled:

The myth of work/life balance

By Erin Reilly

Don’t bother striving for work/ life balance because it’s probably not going to happen, says Erin Reilly. Instead, integrate the two.