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?
According to a new book edited by Morgan Godfery, the anti-TPPA protests in February this year signal the beginning of the end of the neoliberal political consensus of the last 30 years. We ask Godfery what happens next.
Idealog refuses to ask Pandora’s chief strategy officer Sara Clemens the whole ‘women-in-tech’ question. After all, that’s been done to death, right? After more than 20 years in the industry, Clemens must be sick to the back teeth of that question, right? Right?
Delivering quality digital experiences is challenging. Investing in customer insights and feedback is just the starting point. To ensure success there needs to be a balance between engaging your customers and delivering tangible results.
How can a business manage talent effectively when many, or even most, of its people are not actually its employees? Deloitte’s latest survey finds that networks of people who work without any formal employment agreement—as well as the growing use of machines as talent—are reshaping the talent management equation.
OPINION: Amazon killed brick-and-mortar bookselling. Now they’re taking their out-of-the-box thinking back into the box, with a plan to quickly launch 400 physical retail locations, disrupting their category all over again.
Little did I know, when I embarked on my first job as an architect, that I would borrow so heavily from my Bachelor of Architecture in my reincarnation as COO of a statutory trust business 13 years later.
There is a leader, and he’s been put on the stand in front of his followers, his peers, his stakeholders, his bosses and his clients.
Opinion: At a time when our daily news is full of stories about communities in need, the international impact of the refugee crises, and child poverty closer to home, why are businesses giving less?
“Punching Above Our Weight” is one of the core beliefs (/banalities) of our fair nation. When not punching above said weight, we comfort ourselves with the infamous, “On a per capita basis”. But a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) throws a little cold water on New Zealand’s punch when it comes to contributing to global innovation. And yes, even on a per-capita basis.
Bayer is using its huge global research database to produce world-beating science in New Zealand.
The voyeur leader is one of the worst of the breed. Keen to take the perks (and the pay) that goes with the job, but adds nothing to the team.
Asia New Zealand Foundation’s incoming executive director Simon Draper worries about our short-term, mercantilist view of our interactions with Asia.
In June 2015, Kiwi Connect hosted the leadership from Immigration New Zealand on a tour of Silicon Valley to explore how we can better build bridges to attract exceptional talent to New Zealand and create a vibrant startup ecosystem.
We talk to the Xero managing director about her decision to run for Auckland mayor, after only 20 months in the job. Then we ask her boss, Rod Drury, what he thinks about the whole thing.
For an hour and a half on Sunday evening - in the final excruciating stages of a marathon negotiating session involving through the night meetings on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - it looked as if a typo in the final draft text might derail proceedings.
Digital dinosaurs, old-school boards, scary climate change, and how lack of sales expertise is holding New Zealand back.
Achieving fair, equitable diversity in the workplace is something we’ve covered in Idealog before.
New Zealand should be leading the way in critical technologies around renewables, maximising resource use, and restoring food systems, says Sustainable Business Network CEO Rachel Brown, in the latest in Idealog's tenth anniversary "10 after 10" series*. Instead we are locked in a ‘do things the way we have always done them’ model, which stifles innovation. And that matters.
Rob Campbell talks to Henri Eliot following his speech on December 1 entitled “Ban Governance as an Idea”. Campbell discusses his top tips about making the most effective contribution as a new director.
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.
You know things are changing in the food sector when you get gourmet nosh from a food truck, when your beer comes bolstered with protein, and McDonald’s introduces a kale-enhanced breakfast. And the only thing that’s certain is that 10 years from now the food landscape is going to look at whole lot different again. The 2015 Idealog Export Guide examines six food trends changing what and how the world is eating and drinking, and ways New Zealand exporters can take advantage of these trends.
How the age of technology just makes being human that much more important.
If you’ve ever been a founder or CEO of a tech start-up you’ll know that a persistent line of questioning from peers when presenting at forums or conferences pertains to the “traits” required to succeed. Success is often seen as a “silver bullet” that if we can just grab hold of an understanding long enough, we’ll be able to shoot it out there and hit our target too.
Facebook’s Kiwi-born chief creative officer heads down-under; promises riches, jodhpurs.
A 20-year-old on his second start-up wants to provide paid business education for companies and students.
Mars New Zealand, the local manufacturer of many of those sugary treats sitting in a jar on your colleague’s desk, have won the title of New Zealand’s Overall Best Workplace of 2015.
Isthmus, the multidisciplinary design studio behind public projects as diverse as Auckland’s planned neighbourhood Hobsonville Point, the development of the New Plymouth foreshore, and the extension of Wellington’s Oriental Bay, release 'Coast. Country. Neighbourhood. City.', an immaculate book showcasing a selection of its work on the occasion of the studio's 27th anniversary.
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)…
