<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.
The fallout from Brexit isn’t all bad – for overseas consumers, anyway. The weak pound has prompted a rush on ecommerce sites and world-renowned furniture designer David Trubridge has taken it a step further and bought an electric BMW i3 at a sharp price. He took the opportunity to chat with Jenny Keown about how Kiwi businesses should be investing in sustainability.
Adriana Gascoigne is the founder and CEO of Girls in Tech, a global non-profit focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of women passionate about technology. She is visiting New Zealand from San Francisco for a Q&A with Project Connect about how important it is to have women in technology.
According to Cisco’s Visual Network Index, New Zealand’s IP traffic is forecast to double by 2020. The amount of traffic is equivalent of all movies ever made crossing New Zealand’s IP networks every 25 hours.
Last night, the Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland was humming with pride, aspiration, envy, laser beams and a dash of good-natured jingoism as Kea handed out its World Class New Zealand Awards. As per usual, the recipients’ remarkable careers offered a shot of inspiration for the attendees and made them believe they too were capable of greatness (or, for the less optimistic, made them question their own paltry achievements and bad life choices). Here are some of the key lessons we took away from the talented humans who ventured up on stage.
Some business leaders are already toasting their progress, but, according to a new report from EY, gender inequality is here to stay.
Behind every business success story is a support network of organisations that make their achievements possible and the AUT Business School Excellence in Business Support Awards is gearing up to honour them.
AUT alumna Tee Twyford has achieved a lot in her few years. From bright-eyed AUT graduate to high-profile editor of NZGirl, social media and digital PR manager at Tommy Hilfiger to senior digital marketing manager at a certain iconic, London-based luxury brand which wishes to remain nameless, Twyford knows the ropes of marketing.
At last year’s Hi-Tech Awards, NZ’s top event recognising technology industry success, the challenge was laid to ‘get more M?ori in the room’. Hemi Rolleston, Callaghan Innovation’s general manager of Maori Economy & Business Innovation Services, writes about how Callaghan Innovation took up that challenge.
New problems are rarely fixed by applying old thinking. In the last decade a “perfect storm” of change has evolved that requires new thinking – thinking that takes advantage of the digital environment and transforms business as we know it.
<p>In May, EECA (the Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority) presented its 2016 Awards at a dressed-to-the-nines ceremony at Auckland’s Shed 10.</p>
Some call the smartphone the remote control of modern life. And Orion Health is combining that pervasive technology with its own expertise to pioneer the future of health.
Idealog has partnered with Callaghan Innovation to take a look the nature of failure in business – the good, the bad and the unintentionally educational. Sam Shosanya, chief executive of Paper Plus, shares a teachable moment from early in his career.
Winners in second IDEAStarter youth entrepreneurship contest announced.
Uber is transforming its back seats into a Dragons' Den of sorts tomorrow, giving the business thinkers of Auckland a chance to pitch their business ideas to a panel of leaders and investors who are looking for their next opportunity.
The art of observation is underrated in leadership.
The word "outsourcing" sometimes conjures up images of entire departments shut down and moved overseas, often accompanied by an evil, moustache-twirling CEO, not wholly unlike Ebenezer Scrooge.
Prior to social media, the word “brand” was mainly associated with large companies sporting hefty marketing budgets, shiny logos, and a fancy team of publicists. Few professionals thought to deliberately create their own personas and even fewer considered themselves as business units that could also be branded and strategically marketed.
A Nielsen study has found that for the most part, New Zealanders prefer to buy products made locally rather than overseas brands. Just over half (52 percent) try to buy locally produced items as much as possible, with fresh produce the most popular New Zealand made purchase.
A Wellington-based entrepreneur and programmer, and a Silicon Valley-based product manager, on how to build the tech capital of the South Pacific here in New Zealand.
The next Auckland Young Professionals event is on the horizon, this time featuring social maestro Wendy Thompson up close and personal.
Apartment buildings are a necessary part of the future for Auckland. But, as two of Warren and Mahoney's recent projects show, there’s an art to adapting them to our way of life, says architect Blair Johnston.
