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Idealog’s Most Creative: Crimson Education’s Jamie Beaton talks creativity

<p>Jamie Beaton was one of the People's Choice winners for the education category in Idealog and Accenture's <a href="https://idealog.co.nz/casestudies/idealogs-most-creative-people-our-winners">Most Creative People</a>. You don’t create a company valued at $220 million in your early 20s unless you have something special, and the mile a minute whizzkid Beaton has done that with Crimson Education, which helps students from around the world get into top US universities. Here, he talks why some creative passions shouldn't be a full-time gig, resilience and how to tell a good idea from a bad one.</p>

What’s next for Auckland’s City Centre: a Q&A with design champion Ludo-Campbell Reid

<p>Auckland Council recently released a video detailing how far it’s come with the urban design of the City Centre over the last 10 to 15 years, as well as its vision for the years to come. We had a chat with Ludo Campbell-Reid about the pace at which his vision is coming to fruition, the most impactful changes already made to the City Centre and what’s his big, hairy audacious goals for the future.</p>

Icebreaker’s billion-dollar vision

<p>Icebreaker has been <a href="http://theregister.co.nz/news/2017/11/icebreaker-bought-us-retail-giant">sold</a> to US-based footwear and apparel retailer VF Corporation, which also owns the likes of Timberland, Vans, Wrangler, Lee Jeans, and The North Face. We're republishing this story about Icebreaker founder Jeremy Moon and chairperson Rob Fyfe's vision of a $1 billion brand.</p>

NZTech Q&A: Priti Ambani

<p>Chantal Thomas asks the newly appointed <a href="https://www.visa.co.nz/visa-everywhere/everywhere-initiative1.html">Visa’s Everywhere Initiative</a> New Zealand judge about empowering women in tech and what motivates her. </p>

Five things New Zealand’s mid-market companies can learn from Germany’s Mittelstand economy

<p>Medium-sized companies are the backbone of Germany’s economic success. "<span data-scayt-lang="en_US" data-scayt-word="Mittelstand">Mittelstand</span>" companies – which means "middle group" and refers to the mid-market sized enterprises as well as a certain mindset about business – have a lot in common with New Zealand’s medium enterprise sector and, as such, there’s a lot we can learn from the <span data-scayt-lang="en_US" data-scayt-word="Mittelstand">Mittelstand</span> way of doing business.</p>

Purple reign: The best design from the Best Awards

<p>From a dairy-centric slam poetry film to a high-tech scale that scans RFID chips in farm animals, to a new government website combatting cyber-crime, to an exhibition space housing Aotearoa’s iconic constitutional documents, the best in New Zealand Design for 2017 has been revealed.</p>

Doing good: At what cost?

<p><span data-creator-ids="99516f8fd74a anon">What happens when <span data-scayt-lang="en_US" data-scayt-word="organisations">organisations</span> become dysfunctional, where the mission becomes more important than taking care of the people working to make it happen</span>? Silvia Zuur, Lani Evans, and Marianne Elliott explain - and what we can do to fix things.</p>

Pioneering a revolution in retail

<p>Retailers who care about their customers and have mastered the art of making money while doing so <span data-scayt-lang="en_US" data-scayt-word="shouldn">shouldn</span>’t fear the increasing challenges of the industry, says retail strategist Juanita Neville-Te <span data-scayt-lang="en_US" data-scayt-word="Rito">Rito</span> of Retail X. She was the keynote speaker at Latitude Financial Services’ thought leadership series breakfast, ‘Transforming retail pioneers: From selling to seduction”.</p>

Reality Check: Xero’s Anna Curzon

<p>As part of Idealog's Technology Month, we've picked the brains of some of the movers and shakers in the industry to find out their favourite tech-related things, their biggest fears for the future and what other companies and individuals inspire their work. Here's Xero managing director Anna Curzon.</p>

Explore, exploit, experiment: Peter Lee on how businesses can prosper in an age of disruption

<p>As existing products, companies and, in some cases, entire industries are disrupted, the world of business can seem fairly chaotic. But there are ways to prosper. Peter Lee, consulting professor, commercialisation and entrepreneurship at the University of Auckland and chief technologist at the New Zealand Defence Force, explains how businesses old and new can use the tools at our disposal to adapt, innovate and find new opportunities. </p>

Say hello to Projectr, Wellington’s newest VR centre

<p>A new VR and mixed-reality <span data-scayt-lang="en_US" data-scayt-word="centre">centre</span> has launched in Wellington. That, by itself, is not news. But what is news: the fact that <a href="http://www.projectr.nz/"><span data-scayt-lang="en_US" data-scayt-word="Projectr">Projectr</span></a> is being launched with the help of Victoria University of Wellington and other high-profile supporters for far more than just making immersive games.</p>

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