NZBusiness and Management3 min readCrime & Violence
You've Had A Privacy Breach, What Do You Do Next?
Privacy breaches are bad news but they're also a chance to learn from and prevent further breaches. There are four steps every manager should know to reduce the harm to their business. The first step is Contain. You need to find out what's happened a
NZBusiness and Management3 min read
Longer Lifespans Mean Need To Rethink Work And Retirement
Life expectancy increased from an average of 46 to 73 years between 1950 and 2019 and the United Nations forecasts further increases, estimating that global average life expectancy will reach about 81 years by 2100. Living Longer, Better: Understandi
NZBusiness and Management1 min read
Call For Better Public Sector Performance
A new report by The New Zealand Initiative documents the grounds for concern about the public sector's performance, calling for those in charge to step up to learn from betterperforming countries. The research note, titled Public Service Bloat – The
NZBusiness and Management3 min read
Managing Mid-winter Malaise
It's hard to admit but we all know the feeling: work and the workplace can sometimes seem a bit blah. Shorter, colder, rainier winter days don't help. Experts have a few useful things to say about what managers might seek to do to understand and help
NZBusiness and Management3 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Deepfake Scams: Every Leader Should Be Prepared
Organisations are at high risk of reputational damage, extortion and IP theft by synthetic media with AI generated content, such as deepfakes, so realistic that humans can't tell them apart from authentic media up to 50 percent of the time, according
NZBusiness and Management4 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Made From Love And Persistence
As Singapore-based parents, Debbie and husband Wes struggled to find health supplements for their three young girls Mikaela, Honor and Pippin that not only tasted good and had natural ingredients, but were also easy to take. “Anything that appeared ‘
NZBusiness and Management1 min read
Buy NZ Made Strengthens Brand Protection
Buy New Zealand Made has acquired cutting edge trademark detection tool Logo Hunter, ensuring the authenticity of New Zealand-made products is protected. Logo Hunter is an AI platform designed by Wellington-based Arcanum to detect and monitor tradema
NZBusiness and Management3 min read
Do Managers Have Too Much To Manage?
Sydney-based Jonathan Tabah, director in Gartner's HR Practice, says managers are the fulcrum of nearly every change in an organisation, whether big or small. He says in a statement that today the rate of change has accelerated to the point “where or
NZBusiness and Management2 min read
Flexible, Cost-effective Conferencing
At last, there's a cost-effective conferencing system that gets the job done and is perfectly placed in the New Zealand market. The Shure Stem Ecosystem is designed for businesses of all sizes and is perfect for meeting rooms and boardrooms. The syst
NZBusiness and Management2 min read
Body Products Retailer Eyes Export Expansion
High-profile entrepreneur Edna Swart is looking at significant overseas growth following a deal with Australia's sixth-largest retailer. The deal will see Swart's ed&i body products retail in selected Chemist Warehouse stores throughout New Zealand a
NZBusiness and Management2 min read
Playing The ‘Don't Run Out Of Money’ Game
Let's start with a thought experiment. Picture this: I've just handed you $100,000. Not in a suitcase. I just stood in front of you and physically handed you brick after brick of one-hundred-dollar notes, banded together. Cold hard cash. Stop thinkin
NZBusiness and Management2 min read
Advice For Boards In An Era Of Polycrisis
2023: The Perfect Storm? is subtitled 23 Habits your Board Should Change in the Era of Polycrisis. Polycrisis refers to the rolling maul of global emergencies amid persistent geopolitical and economic instability, and the white paper is designed to h
NZBusiness and Management3 min readLeadership
Emotional Intelligence For 21st Century Leaders
Twenty-five years after psychologist and author Daniel Goleman brought the term ‘Emotional Intelligence’ (EQ) to a wide audience with his 1995 book of the same name, EQ remains an essential skill for good leadership. Simply put, EQ is the ability to
NZBusiness and Management1 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
AI, Your Customers, And Productivity
When looking at the potential for AI to improve life for Kiwi businesses, Quanton's Garry Green says the first big benefit is how it supercharges customer experiences by sifting through, and analysing, huge volumes of data. “Today's customer is looki
NZBusiness and Management2 min read
Where Are Millionaires Migrating To?
The Henley Private Wealth Migration Report 2023, which tracks wealth and investment migration trends worldwide, found that Australia is expected to attract the highest net inflow of HNWIs in 2023 at 5,200, and although the UAE drops into second place
NZBusiness and Management2 min read
Are Employees More Productive Working Remotely?
Three years on from the pandemic and the introduction of widespread remote working, the workforce is still very divided on the costs and benefits. In New Zealand, we are starting to see a shift back towards more in-office days, but is remote working
NZBusiness and Management2 min read
How To Build A Compelling Business Story
I've come to understand that marketing success boils down to a simple equation: Story+relationship+opportunity = profile Your story matters because it helps people understand why you do what you do. Your story matters because if people buy into your
NZBusiness and Management7 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Riding the AI TSUNAMI
Artificial Intelligence is like electricity. Just as electricity transformed every major industry a century ago, A! is now poised to do the same. So says Andrew Ng, founder of Google Brain and former VP of Baidu. It's hard not to agree with Ng's stat
NZBusiness and Management3 min read
Keep It Simple: Get Your Customer Experience Humming
There's always a lot to do when you're running a business, especially during tougher economic times when you may be dealing with staff shortages, stretched resources, or a decrease in customers. That's why our clients often ask us how they can ensure
NZBusiness and Management1 min read
B LAB AUSTRALIA & AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
B Lab AANZ is the regional non-profit organisation (within the global B Lab network) that oversees B Corp Certification – a globally recognised standard and movement of business as a force for good, made up of almost 7,000 businesses globally. Within
NZBusiness and Management1 min readSmall Business & Entrepreneurs
Budding Entrepreneurs Get Head Start With Scholarships
Enterprising Kiwis are being given the opportunity to fast track their ventures from idea through to startup, thanks to an online education initiative backed by Callaghan Innovation and entrepreneur education platform Startup NZ. The initiative invit
NZBusiness and Management1 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
How AI Is Revolutionising The HR Industry
AI is revolutionising the HR industry and propelling SMEs into a new era of talent management. That's the view of Employment Hero CEO Ben Thompson. “By automating repetitive, tedious tasks, AI liberates HR professionals from manual processes and admi
NZBusiness and Management4 min read
In Te Whangai They Trust
For Adrienne and Gary Dalton, the couple behind the formation and growth of South Auckland-based Te Whangai1 Trust, the task of driving a successful social enterprise while empowering marginalised people to enter the workforce and break inter-generat
NZBusiness and Management1 min read
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NZBusiness and Management5 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Thriving On Adrenalin
For Cathy Parker, owning a magazine publishing company was never high on the agenda early in her career. When she embarked on the journey with the purchase of NZ Company Vehicle and NZ Windsurfer magazines in 1993 she had zero experience. In fact, de
NZBusiness and Management2 min read
Building A Business Others Want To Buy
Most entrepreneurs begin a business without much thought as to how they will end the business, says Kobi Simmat, author of How to Build a Business Others Want to Buy. “They also tend to build a business around their technical skill hairdressers open
NZBusiness and Management2 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
In My Own Words
There have been watershed moments in the development of tools and technologies down through the ages, and here in 2023 we're witnessing the rapid advance in the latest of these. And it's a game-changer. I am, of course, referring to the arrival of AI
NZBusiness and Management3 min read
Time For Strategic Investment In Our Diverse And Inclusive Workforce
One by one the reasons for using the language of economic recession are disappearing, some gradually, others much more rapidly. Debates about whether or not we are heading towards, or in, a recession seem increasingly irrelevant. This is not written
NZBusiness and Management2 min read
‘Productivity Paranoia’ – A Sign Of Our Times?
There are some great phrases about at the moment that just seem to capture the feel of the times. One that caught our attention this month was “productivity paranoia” which our columnist Cathy Hendry (page 17) says was coined by Microsoft researchers
NZBusiness and Management3 min read
Why Technology Matters In Business
In today's fast-paced and highly competitive business landscape, technology has become an indispensable tool for organisations across industries. Businesses, from small start-ups to large corporations, rely on technology to streamline operations, enh
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