Winner Sir John Anderson John Anthony Anderson began his working life with Deloitte in Wellington in the early 1960s. At the turn of the decade he joined Melbourne sharebroking firm
Do the companies who use them think they’re getting good value from their management consultants or do they feel ripped off? The Institute of Management Consultants, NZ (IMCNZ) is testing
For most computer jockeys, the gloss has long worn off those little envelope icons that pile relentlessly up in the in-box. Now new Australian survey has confirmed email is becoming
A sign of harder IT times is that skills in information and communication technology have fallen off the Australian government’s most wanted list for potential migrants. Apparently research by the
What is an organisation’s intellectual property worth? According to international stock exchange assessments, an estimated 60 percent of company’s assets are IP related but recent Australian survey found few organisations
Companies that want to protect their intellectual property are more likely to keep mum about their technical innovations than to file for patent. That’s according to Technology New Zealand after
Budgets destroy shareholder value and should be abandoned. That was the message Beyond Budgeting advocate Jeremy Hope delivered to some senior executives in Wellington and Auckland last month. Budgets, he
Most of ’em say they do regular exercise, two thirds reckon they’re in excellent health, very few smoke and more than 60 percent say they eat healthy stuff. All in
Employers now rate ethics higher than creativity in top 10 wishlist of graduate attributes. This finding from Victoria University of Wellington’s Career Development and Employment service 2003 survey is hardly
The number of New Zealand business locations has increased on average by 4.5 percent in the past year, according to recently released business demography statistics. Areas running ahead of the
Dr Don Brash has recently parlayed his economic guru status into the leadership of the National Party. He might not like to be reminded that his economic advice has sometimes
Airways high flyer
Winner Solid Energy Just four years ago Solid Energy faced burn out. It was technically insolvent. Now it is one of the New Zealand Government’s hot properties. This year the
CEO, Fletcher Building
A Short History of Nearly Everything By: Bill Bryson Publisher: Doubleday Price: $59.95 If only my science teachers had the way with words Bill Bryson has, how different those periods
Winner Walker Wireless Walker Wireless, now renamed Woosh Wireless, is emerging as one of New Zealand’s most promising hi-tech enterprises pushing the communications advantages of broadband wireless technologies. The company
Hammering Home A Great Result
Winner Vodafone Smart technology, smart marketing and smart management is how Vodafone delivered an even smarter growth strategy to capture an ever-growing share of the New Zealand mobile phone market.
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Thanks largely to the emergence of the internet, we now live in an age of information overload. All manner of data, from simple documents to complex images, is being generated
There is point in every government’s life when it gets too big for its boots. It is frequently the prelude to trip-up. The point is easy to spot in hindsight,
Politicians would have us believe that the New Zealand economy is in pretty good shape. In fact, the overall picture is stronger and more balanced than it has been for
Keeping abreast of what’s hot on the bookstores shelves is no mean feat especially when most managers are probably having enough trouble keeping up with their own paperwork let alone
John Shewan, Warwick Hunt, Kevin Best, Bruce Hassall PricewaterhouseCoopers has announced new leadership team. On the retirement of current chairman Robin Hill, Shewan (top left) becomes chairman and Hunt (top
NZIM National Board chairman Tony Hassed looks at the research tools essential for measuring the ability of New Zealand managers.
It is the end of another year of publishing Management magazine and we wrap it up, as always, with our bumper Top 200 issue. The year has been kind to
Sitting down to Christmas dinner, real estate agents can look back on particularly satisfying 2003, thanks to the property boom. Builders and their suppliers will have prospered similarly. Mind you,
