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.
The National government have announced a suite of measures to encourage uptake of electric vehicles.
Hannah Sutton, Better for Business Programme representative, claims her title as government spy and gives us insight into the R9 Accelerator from a programme manager’s perspective.
At just 21, Jamie Beaton is just about to graduate from Harvard. He’s co-founder of Crimson Consulting, a full service education consultancy that’s attracted a $85 million valuation. He’s also an analyst at hedge fund Tiger Management.
A ‘flat’ organisational structure that eliminates bosses and employees and creates an organisation of equals? Sounds crazy/impossible, right? Well, mostly it is.
Roger James Hamilton, futurist, educator and entrepreneur was in the country recently for the Fast Forward your Business event, held in Auckland.
According to a recent survey New Zealand’s 'women in business' stats are not too shabby – we’re fourth in the world in fact. There’s still work to be done however, especially when it comes to women in C-suite roles...
Farmers using drones to catch fish; a robot chef that can cook 2,000 meals at the push of a button; why it won’t be long until we can ride in driverless cars. These are headlines from the world we live in. Today. It’s understandable that we can feel some uncertainty about stories like this. What will they mean for us, and what will our role in the future workplace be?
