Tales of grass roots resilience
New Zealand’s media has been awash with inspiring tales of business owners defying the pandemic through reinvention – by navigating and pivoting across alert levels, and emerging wiser and better
New Zealand’s media has been awash with inspiring tales of business owners defying the pandemic through reinvention – by navigating and pivoting across alert levels, and emerging wiser and better
A short collection of Covid-crushing insights to help businesses navigate the ‘new normal’. By editor Glenn Baker. When you consider how this insidious virus has wreaked havoc on the economy,
What is the key to enduring business partnerships? What are the warning signs that things aren’t right? NZBusiness went in search of some stellar partnerships and some expert advice.
A leader’s role is to understand the different personalities of their employees in order to bring out the best in them. It all begins with respect, writes Richard Conway. I
If your business has been experiencing sluggish sales growth in recent times, then perhaps these two suggestions from Logan Wedgwood can get things moving again. If you have ever failed,
Creating a customer-centric culture that’s great for both your customers and your people will improve your business’s performance significantly. Mat Wylie explains how. In 2019 we interviewed some of Australasia’s
One simple little word that you use day after day in your life could be undermining and devaluing your performance in life and business.
Lisa Martin, Executive Director of GoFi8ure, discusses all things accounting and bookkeeping, and shares some best practice management advice with business owners. It’s 2020. A new decade has dawned. What better time to reflect on how far business accounting and bookkeeping has come since the turn of the century. Who can remember a world without cloud accounting platforms? Imagine a world of printed bank statements and invoices, manual reconciliations, and no sign of digital bank feeds or automated accounting tools? It’s all a distant memory for GoFi8ure’s Executive Director Lisa Martin (pictured) too. She has witnessed first-hand the rise of automation over her business accounting career – making life easier and providing more time for business owners. She notes that
As we settle into 2020, it’s fair to say that responsiveness will be the thing that makes or breaks your business, writes Advisory.Works’ Simon Mundell. We’ve seen several years of predominantly good news and buoyant growth for businesses; however, as we’ve seen in the early months of this year, the unexpected can happen – and it doesn’t take very long for the bottom to fall out of the market in a crisis. There’s not a business in New Zealand that hasn’t been affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and subsequent lockdown. We moved quickly past ‘wait and see’ and most businesses didn’t have much time to prepare before they were facing a completely new operational reality. From revenue disruptions and
The founder of business transformation consultancy Sysdoc and 2015 UK New Zealander of the Year, Katherine was admitted into the New Zealand Tech Hall of Fame in 2016.
Working from home has become commonplace in recent months around New Zealand. Bill Bennett reviews the communications technologies on offer for business owners. ome offices are going to feature more in everyone’s lives from now on. So are communications technologies. Expect to have fewer face-to-face meetings in future and more digital connections. In 2020 there is a bewildering array of options for connecting with others, but not all are appropriate for owner operated businesses. Exactly what tools you choose depends on what you do and who you communicate with. If you get the basics right, you’ll have something solid to build on. Broadband is fundamental. You need a fast connection with plenty of data. The best broadband technology is
Husband and wife Nik Payne and Sarah Delany are devout believers in the theory that story comes before visuals when crafting a successful brand. Not surprisingly, their brand-focused design agency Mount Deluxe practises what they preach. With their home on the North Shore, and their business based over the harbour bridge in Ponsonby, Nik Payne and Sarah Delany, co-directors of Mount Deluxe, regard Auckland’s iconic ‘coathanger’ as a tangible divide separating business from family. Not surprisingly, business and family are incredibly important to this couple, with family a relatively late chapter to their life-story. After first meeting at design school, Nik and Sarah subsequently combined their talents to create their own brand-focused design agency ten years ago. Today they have
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