Forget cut-throat competition, the hot topic these days is collaboration. From shared workspaces, to Xero start-up teams, to primary producer hot-shots gathering at Stanford, Idealog examines the workings of Kiwi collaboration. Plus: Should we be making dosh from dope (like those astute Americans); and why aren’t we all driving electric cars (like those smart Scandinavians)?
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Design Thinking
Sales success is the process of attracting customers by showing them how your product and/or service will meet their needs better than the alternatives available. Good design attracts customers, sells more products today and sets a platform up for you to sell even more tomorrow, writes Steven Giannoulis from Insight Creative.
China
A Wellington start-up is connecting Chinese students in New Zealand with Kiwi businesses looking to tap into the world's largest market.
Business
Forget cut-throat competition, the hot topic these days is collaboration. Whether it’s companies in shared working spaces exchanging ideas around the water cooler, entrepreneurs picking other people’s brains via crowdsourcing, Xero start-ups teaming up to get customers, or big bosses of primary producers strategising at Stanford University, working together is de rigueur.* (*But why just write about it? Idealog decided to try a bit of collaborating ourselves, so we asked for help to illustrate this feature. Most of the photos on these pages – and on the cover – were sourced from our readers, friends, followers, and the people we've written about recently. The rest were us. We're all in this together.)
Innovation
On a clear day in May, Auckland commuters gazing up to the sky for some relief from the gridlocked traffic might have spotted something unusual: a spidery black object, looking a bit like a miniature Dalek, flying over the factories of Industry Road with a small parcel attached.
Fashion
Working Style has chosen the late Sir Ian Athfield’s signature home Athfield House as the backdrop for its Summer 2015/16 collection campaign.
Electric Vehicles
The emissions scandal at Volkswagen is one reason we should be taking electric cars seriously. Environment writer Andy Kenworthy can think of plenty of others
Innovation
Successful companies lodge international patents. We Kiwis just invent stuff and hide it under our raincoats
Media
American journalist Andrew Goldman's film "The Desk" (about Paul Henry) makes Idealog columnist Vaughn Davis reconsider the role of an amateur journalist.
Collaboration
Looking for a good time in central Auckland? Idealog spent a few hours at AUT’s Colab, and came away buzzing.
