We first profiled Steve Bayliss in issue six (Nov-Dec 2006) when he was leading a team of design fanatics at Air NZ. He’s now group GM at Foodstuffs. We asked him to reflect on what’s changed in the last 10 years. And what still needs to.
We ask Idealog readers to reflect on what’s changed in the last 10 years. And what still needs to.
Trouble with a mobile payment system has left hundreds of Kiwi companies out of pocket. After paying upfront costs to purchase card reading devices provided by a New Zealand company called Swipe, customers are seeking legal action after ongoing network outages left many without electronic payment facilities for days at a time.
Chris Liddell, chair of the NEXT Foundation (and Xero) has ambitious plans for biodiversity restoration – not all of them involving peanut butter.
An internship programme that aims to connect keen tertiary students with equally keen companies says its playing a valuable role in nurturing New Zealand’s tech industry.
Vaughan Rowsell talks to Idealog about appointing Sam Morgan to the Vend board, and expanding into the UK, Canada and Australia
Another day, another ranked index from Deloitte, this time showing that New Zealand is, indeed, a hothouse for rapid business growth.
Kath Dewar, managing director of marketing strategy company GoodSense, and another leader in the diversity cause, reflects on what has changed in New Zealand over the last 10 years – and what still needs to.
Last night, Deloitte awarded the elite of New Zealand’s business community with statues and canapes. The winners have been well covered by the sponsor publication (and are listed below) so rather than another update on Fonterra,* here are the four things that surprised us and a few of fun facts about the top 200.
Startup Weekend Auckland: Idealog’s Anita Hayhoe heads off for 54 hours of pressure, exhilaration, and create-your-own-company know-how.
We ask Idealog’s best to reflect on what’s changed in the last 10 years. And what still needs to.
Some forecasters are saying the current tech investment boom has all the warning signs seen when the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s. So should we be afraid…very afraid? What are the chances this is Bubble 2.0? Idealog asks some Kiwi high-flyers.
New Zealand’s fastest growing businesses have been revealed at the Deloitte Festival of Fast Growth, with surprising variety among the companies making the final cut.
New Zealand's fastest growing 50 companies were revealed last night at the third annual Deloitte Festival of Fast Growth. (Congratulations, Wellington craft brewery phenom, Garage Project!)
Leaders in everything from legal services to research, from search optimisation to disputes resolution and more gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the AUT Excellence in Business Support Awards this week. And the winners are (drum roll here)…
The New Zealand technology sector has had a record year according to the 2015 TIN100 Report, released by the Technology Investment Network on Wednesday night.
The world’s changing. Idealog’s changing. And New Zealand?
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.
Skills-starved tech corporates pledge $600,000 to OMGTech!, the initiative started by Vaughan Rowsell and Michelle Dickinson to inspire kids to stop gaming and start coding.
The regional category winners from the Deloitte Fast 50 – a national index of New Zealand’s fastest growing companies – were announced last night at events in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
Orion Health CEO Ian McCrae says lumping IT in with other “tech” subjects at school is putting bright kids off, and exacerbating the skills shortage.
In the 2011 movie Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the general manager of the cash-strapped Oakland Athletics baseball team. Using a heap of previously-ignored player statistics, Beane buys up undervalued players no one else wants – and goes on to win the league. High-five for clever data.
When you haven’t done something for a hundred-or-so years, you're unlikely to get it right the first time. So, we might disagree over our favourite designs, or whether the flag should be changed at all, but, I'm sure we can all agree that the process has not been a success.
Pull out your best hemp tuxedo and uncork that organic champagne, the 2015 NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards are coming around again.
There’s a gender gap in Kiwi business, science and technology. And for a country that prides itself on its progressiveness and its innovation, that’s a problem. But there’s good news too – New Zealand may have just have found its great untapped potential.
Identical twins Matt and Brady Thomas went to the same university and had the same first job. Now they are 29 and their second co-founded start-up has just raised $470,000 in equity crowdfunding.
Idealog had never thought about companies using Pinterest or Airbnb as part of a recruitment campaign. How wrong we were.
New Zealand is facing a shortage of highly skilled IT workers, with companies vying for the best talent.
Young Enterprise Scheme teams prepare to battle it out for cash and business scholarships
Xerox and Kodak have become by-words for failure. But it's all so easy to pick the losers in hindsight. Knowing when you are about to be up-ended is much harder.