<p>In the latest edition of our series asking some of Aotearoa's best-known businesspeople and visionaries to take a step back and offer their insights on how the past year has gone and how the future might unfold, we chat with leadership coach <a href="http://www.mcalpinecoaching.org/">Suzi McAlpine</a>.</p>
<p>Christchurch, New Plymouth, Hamilton and Auckland have all won big at the Entertainment Venues Association of New Zealand (EVANZ) Awards</p>
<p>We spoke with Mum's Garage founder and CEO Natalie Robinson and Fantail Network trustee and co-founder Jane Kennelly about what we can do to achieve greater equality in terms of business funding.</p>
<p>Social responsibility is a major theme among the winners of this year's edition of the Deloitte Top 200 Business Awards.</p>
<p>Air New Zealand does far more than make entertaining inflight safety videos – and its win at the 2016 NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards proves it.</p>
<p>The winner of the Young New Zealand Innovator award is... Jamie Beaton of Crimson Education!</p>
<p>New Zealand's economy could see big changes as a result of a Donald Trump presidency in the United States.</p>
<p>To mark the arrival of the <a href="https://xone.vodafone.co.nz/">Vodafone </a><a href="https://xone.vodafone.co.nz/">xone</a><a href="https://xone.vodafone.co.nz/"> business accelerator</a>, <em>Idealog</em> is interviewing heaps of established New Zealand innovators, as well as the founders of the 10 startups selected by Vodafone to receive mentorship, funding and the potential benefits of working with a global network. In this edition, publisher and editorial director Ben Fahy talks with Dr. Keith Alexander, the inventor of the Springfree trampoline, and Doug Hill, the owner of the company.</p>
<p>Innovation in New Zealand is in decline, according to a new study of the country’s biggest companies and public sector organisations.</p>
<div>HR is on the move – shifting from transactional compliance-related tasks to creating meaningful employee experiences.</div>
<p>From a card game designed to encourage literacy to wool shoes, and even an automated pest trap to protect native birds, this year’s Best Awards certainly didn’t disappoint.</p>
<p>More women than ever are owning and operating businesses in Aotearoa – but there’s still a ways to go to achieve equality.</p>
<p>Plant & Food Research has been awarded the Supreme Award in the 2016 AUT Business School Excellence in Business Support Awards. Formed in 2008, its research is used to add value to New Zealand’s plant and food industries. And, in an effort to maximise that impact, it’s proven itself as a leader of best practice.</p>
<p>The Edmund Hillary Fellowship has been named the implementation partner for the new Global Impact Visa programme. Next up: bringing the world's best innovators to New Zealand.</p>
<p>With more reliance than ever on digital technology, it comes as no surprise that it's an important way to recruit the very best employees for your business. But there's a right, and wrong, way to go about it.</p>
<p>Jessica-Belle Greer meets Dil Khosa, operations manager at <a href="https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj6g6Sv6ZzPAhVIjZQKHQ_8ARoQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parrotanalytics.com%2F&usg=AFQjCNEfQo1u97l1ppgERekWPxkh-s05zA&sig2=umg1B_--ux6scu1NfH5rvA">Parrot Analytics</a>, who sees a world of opportunity in the TV datasphere.</p>
<p>Wellington's startup scene is thriving. Here are six companies that not only have thrived, but are setting a standard for others to follow.</p>
<p>As Lightbox chief executive Kym Niblock prepares to bid farewell to the SVOD industry, we sit down with her for a long chat about her stint at the centre of one of the fastest changing industries in New Zealand.</p>
<p>Yesterday, Suzanne Middleton looked at how <a href="https://idealog.co.nz/casestudies/maori-business-weaving-fibres-future">M?ori businesses are adapting to to the digital age</a>. Today, she profiles six M?ori? business using technology to transform the way they work.</p>
<p>How to establish digital ethics in the workplace.</p>
<p>Leaders can most certainly be made – at least that’s the claim the woman behind a new leadership app is making.</p>
<p>Each year Greg Shanahan and his <a href="http://www.tin100.com/">Technology Investment Network</a> publish the TIN100 Report, charting the performance of the New Zealand technology sector over the previous financial year. Here, he delivers <em>Idealog</em>'s inaugural State of the Sector address, slaughtering some sacred clichés along the way.</p>
<p>Fintech startups are popping up like mushrooms, the big tech players are all eyeing up your money, and customers are demanding better digital experiences from their banks. Kiwibank is all too aware that disruption is looming, so it has had to start, as the famous Facebook mantra goes, moving fast and breaking things. </p>
<p>Five bits of frivolity for a dancy dose of Friday distraction.</p>
?More than 70 businesses and organisations across Auckland each hosted two promising young leaders as part of the Auckland University of Technology’s Annual Shadow a Leader Day.
Weta Workshop has established itself as one of the world's most creative companies. How did they do it? And what do you need if you want to replicate it? Suzi McAlpine delved into the dark arts of creativity and asked Sir Richard Taylor to share his advice.
Mary Quin is resigning as chief executive of Callaghan Innovation after three years of service.
The finalists of this year’s TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards have been announced after a record number of entries were received. It won’t be long until champagne-filled glasses will once again be clinked together at the Langham, celebrating the best of marketing over the past year.
