Digital trends every business owner needs to watch
Bill Bennett reviews six of the newer technologies impacting on the post-pandemic business world, and answers the question: how relevant are they to your business? Digital tools didn’t have all
Bill Bennett reviews six of the newer technologies impacting on the post-pandemic business world, and answers the question: how relevant are they to your business? Digital tools didn’t have all
Restoring our waterways and landscapes must be a business imperative and it’s time to get involved, writes Andy Kenworthy. Knowing when to invest is a key skill in business. People,
Succession is arguably the most satisfying process for extracting monetary value from years of hard work in your business, but the key is to do it right.
Kiwi business TradeWindow has ambitions to digitalise the world’s supply chains with its efficiency-boosting blockchain technology. At a recent media breakfast held at TradeWindow’s Takapuna head office it was appropriate
Once there was a baker, a chef and a barista who all dreamed of opening a standout destination bakery for Auckland’s North Shore community. Turns out Rollers Bakery produced exactly
New Auckland Business Chamber CEO Simon Bridges opens up about his future outside politics, leading New Zealand’s oldest business association. What previous business experience did you bring to the
If we don’t invest in the circular economy, we’ll soon be investing in more chaotic price rises and supply shortages. Do it now, and we can be world leaders in high value innovation, writes Andy Kenworthy. Modern New Zealand is an outpost of the industrialised lifestyle developed in the great land masses of the world. That lifestyle is currently unsustainable. It’s even more unsustainable on some remote islands in the middle of the South Pacific. A circular economy, where resources are never abandoned to become waste or pollution, is the only viable long-term option. The need for change is more acute in New Zealand than elsewhere. So we must take the lead. Our wake-up call came in 2018. China stopped
Fiona Clark provides a straightforward guide to building, and maintaining, the best team possible for a post-pandemic workplace. There is a saying going around that it’s time to not only ‘Go Through Covid, but Grow Through Covid’. This is a great way to think about business and how to make the next 12 months count. Whether you are in rebuild mode, in a growth phase, or flat out trying to keep up with demand – we all need one thing, and that is a good team. The reality is it’s hard to grow a business without good people. And there are a lot more challenges now for business owners to navigate. We’ve heard about the ‘Great Resignation’, about the
David McEwen’s successful 30-year career providing share market investment advice recently received a major booster shot with his newly launched Stockfox app.
Cat and Jonny Peters describe the growth of their trades recruitment business as formidable, and they’re only just getting started.
‘Wine-olojists’ Maciej Zimny, Josh Pointon and Jessica Wood created a start-up to help wine drinkers gain further enjoyment of wine by understanding exactly what’s in the bottle.
For Whanganui’s Angela Hewson, business has been a roller-coaster – thankfully with many more ups than downs. She shares her story in the hope it will inspire others in uncertain times. It was the arrival of the aerobics industry in the early 80s that initially sparked Angela Hewson’s interest in the world of sweatbands and lycra. She had been running a successful dressmaking business in Wellington, but it was at Les Mills aerobics classes where she caught the bug that would ultimately define her business career. With her two pre-schoolers in tow, a job in the gym’s crèche in return for free classes seemed like a good deal. “I was quickly hooked and knew I wanted to become an instructor,”
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