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
Once a buzzword only noteworthy to the most committed of OSH representatives, ‘wellbeing’ has, against all odds, become the business productivity term du jour. That doesn’t mean corporate NZ is any good at actually doing it though.
As CEO of Lightbox, Kym Niblock is proof women can succeed in a male-dominated industry. She’s worked for some of the biggest media companies in the world including BBC and Foxtel, introducing new advertising models when everyone was against it, and pushing the advancement of online TV. Here she talks to Idealog about some of the biggest lessons she’s learnt along the way.
Henri Eliot offers his top tips on how you can brush up on your directorship brand to secure your first or additional board roles.
It’s a no-brainer that happier, healthier, stress-free employees will take less time off work and be more productive. But what should an employer be doing about producing these paragons of wellness – and will it work?
NZ R&D has helped global marine company Navico win the race to produce what it says is a world first in terms of a high-tech radar that meets many ticks for boaties
‘You made me sane again’ is a praise lavished often on Xero. Andy Lark, Xero’s chief marketing officer, talks about why marketing cannot be a substitute for a great product or sterling service. He also gives a glimpse of the challenge of tackling the US market.
The neighbourhood-based social website has now partnered with a third corporate, BP, who joins AMI and The Warehouse in Neighbourly’s “small family of corporate partnerships”.
How a company evaluates its board has become an increasingly important process. Companies in developed countries have adopted this process as a norm but NZ private companies have been slow to move their feet on this. This column highlights how board assessments should be done.
Even though we live in a country where women are more respected and protected than in other parts of the world, New Zealand still has a long way to go towards gender equality, says TEDxWellingtonWomen director Natalia Albert.
The 2015 TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards are ready to be collected. So if you feel you’ve performed heroic feats of marketing over the past year, get ready to submit an entry and show us what you’re made of.
Network for Learning (N4L) is the $211 million Government project to connect New Zealand’s 2500 schools and 750,000 students to fast, secure broadband. It’s been a huge undertaking, particularly coming as it did in the middle of the Novopay school debacle, which ran $45 million over budget and had to be rescued by the Government.
Australia-based M2 is buying CallPlus for $250 million; the latter had in June last year bought over Orcon for an undisclosed sum.
Students get bad report cards if they don’t do well. The Public Sector is under similar pressures these days. A seminar in April will explore how the sector can deliver top-notch performance.
Time is a scarce commodity these days for everyone, especially for managers of various kinds. It's tough maintaining a tight ship, and sometimes roadblocks are created by management itself. Maybe it's time for a change, says continuous improvement expert Joakim Ahlström
Claudia Batten went from dorky tall kid to creating several successful businesses. She shares some insights on how to build great boards and how businesses need to get ready for the disruptions caused by technology.
Small- and medium-sized businesses are missing the opportunity to reach customers in a cost effective way if they don't have a digital marketing strategy.
Old gun Simply Squeezed and relatively new flatbread brand Farrah’s both lead their respective categories.
Corporate social responsibility programmess take planning, time and commitment. Don’t rush into programmes to ‘do good’ for the world unless you have a plan to do it well to enhance the value of your brand.
Chris Quin's departure as Spark's CEO of home, mobile and business leaves market unmoved
Managing millennials is tough business. Organisations need to rethink how to attract and engage their millennial workforce who care less about traditional leadership models, and more about how to find purpose at work, according to Deloitte's latest survey.
The really smart folks on what they are reading in 2015 and why we need to start a list of to-dos for the new year.
CEO and founder of the Be Institute Minnie Baragwanath believes that leaders with disability have some unique insights to offer other leaders in the 21st century, in particular the idea of "spacious" leadership.
The Kiwi high-flyer (and former CHH boss) talks to Idealog about why his $100 million NEXT Foundation – whose first four philanthropic “investments” are announced this morning – is a new model for charitable donations in New Zealand
The dust has barely settled on his desk but new CEO of the New Zealand Technology Industry Association (NZ Tech) Graeme Muller has already set down some solid goals for the organisation, one of which is pushing for New Zealand to have an overarching ICT (information and communications technology) strategy.
The University of Canterbury has put out a Rhodes scholar to Oxford every year for the last five years, produced prime ministers, scientists, and prize-winning novelists. Its latest success is Julia O'Brien, who's managed to find herself in the heart of Silicon Valley.