November 18, 2001

As the compliance cost of employment goes up and employment law becomes more complex, employers are beginning to eye the growing overseas trend of contracting labour.

Electronic Market Places Imagine world in which people you have never met – in huge companies like Coke or Nabisco or Kraft – can find and purchase your company’s goods

Great ASPirations If the cost of setting up software scares the socks off you, ever thought about renting the software you need? One way for small to medium sized businesses

Managing the transformation to

e-Procurement Managing the cost of buying is now realised as key to improving profitability. E-business promises to do to procurement what self-cleaning ovens did to Mr Muscle. Automating what were

e-Security Network security dynamics that accompany this new electronic frontier are scaring local businesses off. At least this was the conclusion reached by recent Deloitte Consulting survey. Survey results suggest

Board papers can reach mammoth proportions, tying up vast amounts of management time in preparation.

If you want lots of repeat hits on your website, be friendly.

Oil price fluctuations have reawakened debate on fuel options for motoring.

I recently wrote a column for the NZIM members’ newsletter, The Informer, which has attracted attention and correspondence from people in business.

A Government preoccupied with closing Maori:non-Maori gaps seems curiously unperturbed by other gaps demanding expert analysis and urgent policy responses.

How come Maori and Pacific islanders got to keep the “gaps” all to themselves? There are many huge gaps for the Government to close.

Local telecommunications supplier – Redeal Logistices – is adopting an e-commerce supply chain strategy designed to improve customer service, preserve margins and reduce costs to customers.

Most organisations go through stages to being fully-fledged e-business. In its recent e-Day forums around the country, Cisco Systems partnered with esolutions, Xtra and ASB Bank, to show New Zealand