People are the key. They unlock or imprison the real wealth of an organisation. Any manager worth his or her salt understands this. They do not, however, always make a particularly good fist of turning these valuable assets to account. Why?
It should not take more than 16 weeks to implement a balanced reporting programme into an organisation. Why does it take most Kiwi enterprises 16 months or more?
Every organisation should plan to capture and keep talented people. Why? Because talent delivers competitive advantage.
With a current growth rate of 16 percent annually, New Zealand’s convention and incentives industry has never looked healthier. But the trick is to be more than a statistic and deliver a memorable event. That takes good management. Here’s how to go about it.
Smart new software, powerful new processors, and impressive paper handling and finishing options are transforming the printer, copier and MFD landscape. e.Office gets you up to speed.
The Employment Relations Act has legislated to make unions key part of the employment relationship – but what has it achieved in reality? There are examples of successful partnerships between
The net offers incredible new opportunities in the education field. It’s now possible to study for an MBA at range of universities located across the world. That means access to
Fonterra, Air New Zealand, Bendon, Tasman Pacific, Southern Cross Healthcare. Big fish in their respective ponds and all, in the last year or so, falling into varying levels of disgrace.
Knowledge is an exploitable asset locked-up in many small to medium size enterprises. But most of them fail to understand how to capitalise on it.
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New Zealand needs better managers and directors if the nation is to deliver the wealth it needs to survive and succeed in tomorrow’s world, says the New Zealand Institute of Management’s national chairman Doug Matheson, in his annual review.
A caricature of yesteryear’s unionist was a middle-aged blue collar male. The new face of Kiwi unionism is rapidly becoming skilled young women. Why has unionism changed so significantly, what impact is the Employment Relations Act (ERA) having on union priorities and how relevant are unions within today’s labour market?
New Zealanders, and particularly New Zealand business people, love failure! We need, instead, to celebrate success.
Understanding and correctly harnessing emerging telecommunications systems and services is crucial to modern business management. But how exactly are you supposed to achieve that? What are the emerging telecommunications technologies in 2002, who is developing them and what can they really deliver?
The ideas of Nobel prize-winning economist James Tobin, who died on March 11, are bound to live on for much longer than the Alliance Party, which embraced some of them
“They lie, they cheat, they steal and they’ve been getting away with it for too long,” screamed recent Fortune magazine headline dedicated to covering the exploits of white-collar criminals in
The Dance of Leadership * By: Peter Cammock * Publisher: Pearson Education NZ * Price: $49.95
Knowledge management might be management’s current buzz phrase, but there is great deal of confusion out there about what it means exactly. Just don’t confuse knowledge with information. A survey
