September 24, 2002

Multifunctional devices continue to raise office productivity levels.

One thing the Worldcom debacle has helped highlight is that genuine profits in telecommunications are getting little harder to come by – if an industry giant is reduced to telling

The emerging realisation that business is in need of good leaders is closely followed by the worry that there’s not enough of them around. How to best find or develop

What does an Australian winemaker have to do with protecting New Zealand wetlands? Surprisingly, quite lot. As part of its “good citizen” market cred, Banrock Station Wines has committed to

After couple of decades of downsizing, outsourcing, re-engineering, implementing the big IT strategies, creating quality circles and masterminding cultural makeovers, it seems the corporate body is suffering “ideas fatigue”. That

Is skills shortage stifling New Zealand’s business growth? The answer, according to nearly 40 percent of companies recently surveyed by the Department of Labour, is “yes”. Not only are more

A little further into the Information Age and many of today’s white-collar workers will be replaced by ‘gold-collar workers’, according to forecasts by business generals such as Tom Peters. As

The challenges of business in the 21st century are daunting: rapid and disruptive change; fleeting opportunities; incomplete information; and an overall sense of

Videoconferencing is a quick, effective way to speed-up the decision-making process, slashing both travel and communication costs in the process.

Leadership is about collaboration and making connections. Here’s how a group of Auckland’s business leaders established a new model of community leadership and set about tackling the city’s seemingly intractable traffic problems.

I have just read your most interesting article “Top Ten Women Talk About Their Lives” Management, September 2002. It’s hit button for me. After years of reading articles about the

Bob Edlin’s comments on the CPI in your August edition are incorrect. Statistics New Zealand does systematically adjust price changes to take account of improvements or reductions in the quality

Colin James (Management, August 2002) charts bright future for party that learns to respect the young electorate’s suspicion of centralisation, and its demand for diversity and customised social services. Then

Dairy industry giant Fonterra is a year old. After a difficult birth it has struggled to prosper. Now it is turning to a massive injection of information technology to deliver on the management promises it made. But what exactly is SAP’s JEDI solution, and will it force a difference on the bottom-line result?

Is time running out for boards and directors?

We live in uncertain times. Aside from the threat of terrorism, the prospects for humanity’s overall economic prosperity seem endangered by series of massive corporate failures in the Western world.

Six New Zealand organisations stepped up to the plate again this year to measure themselves against a tough international management performance standard. In doing so they differentiated themselves from the pack of mediocrity that comprises the bulk of New Zealand enterprise. They were entrants in this year’s round of the New Zealand Business Excellence Awards and they want to be “world class”. Why?