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.
From Stuxnet to Sony, the US military to Ashley Madison, hacking makes headlines, but for every high-profile breach, there are hundreds more happening every day that don’t. So what’s the real risk? Idealog investigates.
Michael Smythe enters the flagellation fray with a constructive critique of the populist flag selection process.
Guy Ryan’s Festival for the Future last weekend attracted more than 500 young people with an inconsequential goal: making the world a better place.
Paid parental leave is back on the New Zealand agenda with Government legislation and a private members bill looming. But do more generous provisions actually encourage parents to spend more time with their babies?
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.
Looking for a new way to improve productivity, give employees more autonomy and job satisfaction and even improve your bottom line? Easy. Get rid of the boss.
Almost nine out of 10 Fortune 100 companies use Myers-Briggs personality profiling in some way to check out how their employees view the world and make decisions. But it’s also a cunning tool for start-ups.
Idealog had never thought about companies using Pinterest or Airbnb as part of a recruitment campaign. How wrong we were.
Two years ago Fonterra was paying farmers $8.40. This season it'll probably be $3.85. So will the slump be the death of R&D or the spur for much-needed moves away from the commodity market?
According to recent research in Australia, the average age of directors is approximately 63 years for men and 57 years for women for the top 100 listed companies. Korn Ferry research indicates that the average age of NZX female directors is 56 and males are 58.
The rebrand of Spark, the biggest name change in recent times, also included Gen-i, one of the largest and most successful ICT services providers in the country. Renamed as Spark Digital, the old Gen-i didn’t need that much fixing. Or did it?
Another IdealogLive Pitch Circus event came and went last night and it was a cracker, with big ideas, great food and drinks and a bunch of clever pitches: An app to get kids to do their chores, a new business to bring transparency to the property investment business and the best darn cookies you ever tasted.
Author Stacey Copas knows a bit about resiliency. At twelve years old Copas broke her neck diving into a shallow swimming pool, an event which left her depressed, heartbroken and a quadriplegic.
If you’re a fan of big ideas, great food and fine Scotch whisky, this Tuesday’s IdealogLive Pitch Circus event is your poison.
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.
There’s a lot happening at this month's IdealogLive event! Dry & Tea's Amy Sznicer will be giving an inspirational talk about leadership and entrepreneurship, we’ve got our famous white-knuckle Dragon's Den-style pitching event, plus there will be some of the most delectable finger foods you’ve ever tasted.
I recently overheard someone talking about a cutting-edge leadership workshop they had just attended.
Anyone who has ever spent 60 rush-hour minutes stuck in traffic can attest: commuting sucks. But is there a better way? Andrew Kissling sure thinks so.
When Cantabrians protest the disappearance of the old cathedral, they are simply following a long and noble tradition of resistance to altering the status quo.
Dry & Tea owner Amy Sznicer is the guest speaker at IdealogLive this month. Sznicer will be talking about leadership, entrepreneurship and how she created one of the most popular boutique businesses in Auckland.
Mark Tuesday 28th July in your calendars and come join us for a great evening filled with fun, fabulous drinks and a nerve-wrecking pitching circle - at least for the entrepreneurs!
In his new role as International Cross-dressing Teacher’s Pet at Stanford’s prestigious business school, NZTE executive David Downs is elected Class President, and pisses off the Aussies by making sure the Professor sports an All Blacks jersey.
The Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ) is implementing a new code aimed to clarify what scientists may or may not say to the public about their projects. However some researchers fear the guidelines will be aimed at gagging discussion of controversial or commercially valuable research.
With customers increasingly demanding online solutions from business, traditional models are scrambling to bring their online engagement models up to snuff.
David Downs, NZTE executive and author of No.8 Re-wired, arrived at Stanford University last week for six-weeks of high-pressure business strategy and leadership development. In the first of a series of irreverent blog posts, he explores this stronghold of intellectual endeavour – and drinks some red wine with a Russian.
The annual creative event is back in Auckland come July, when the city will transformed by a hubbub of creative conversation and live presentations. Spreading art and design inspiration, Idealog's got tickets up for grabs.
Opinion: Why setting boundaries and clarifying expectations is crucial to ensuring effective chairman/chief executive dynamics.
Using both social media and once-a-month meetups to bring like (and not-so-like) minds together, the Women’s Collective is redefining one of the oldest communication technologies—the conversation circle—to create an engaging, collaborative space where innovators and thought leaders can share their stories, and where conversations are ignited.
Chris Liddell (ex-CHH boss and former Microsoft CFO) talks about the first 12 months of the $100 million NEXT Foundation – and where to for strategic philanthropy