Currency Management
Opinion: Why a strong currency can be good for business
Learning how to live with a strong currency
Issue #55, January - February 2015
Chocolate milk madness: was it all planned or a happy accident?; dolleroes from algae (no, really) and NZ’s rockstar economy (yeah, right). Our first ever pink issue looks behind the Lewis Road Creamery frenzy, checks out the economic prognosis for 2015, and shows how escaping two civil wars taught an Auckland tech entrepreneur heaps about risk. Plus: Brand Aid; Nelson’s algae boom; and tips for a healthy workplace (including the benefits of doing nothing). Oh, and there’s an annoying talking trash can.
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Investment
Opinion: Investment wisdom
Investment wisdom from Idealog’s favourite agony uncle
Working well - Why creating a culture of wellness is great for your bottom line
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
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?
Try doing a eulogy about your brand. You may discover a whole new life.
Cloud
The dark side of the cloud
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
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 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
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
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
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
Chocolate milk madness. WTF?
Trade
Opinion: Could we be missing a trick in India?
NZ-India bilateral trade
Technology
How a company turning algae into supplements attracted over $7 million from investors
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?
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?
“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?
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
Don’t bother striving for work/ life balance because it’s probably not going to happen, says Erin Reilly. Instead, integrate the two.
