Organisations should be asking vendors some hard questions about their performance management solutions before making a substantial investment – not only in capital but also in the capability to develop a strategic planning framework that will deliver shareholder value.
As improvements in presentation technology continue to advance, Glenn Baker charts recent progress.
While many firms don’t know how to do it, there’s broad unanimity that identifying your organisation’s intellectual property (IP) makes good horse sense. The trouble is the decision whether to protect IP (let alone value it once you’ve identified it) can lead to the classic Catch 22 – how do you control it while still receiving the commercial pay dirt?
The importance and performance of New Zealand’s business leaders.
New Zealand’s rural sector has spawned some of our smartest companies and sharp new enterprises continue to spring from the country’s oldest foundation industries. What is it about the land-based sector that generates such success, and is New Zealand’s future economic wellbeing once again tied to the farmgate?
In nutting out a new routemap to hike up our OECD ranking, a young and vocal New Zealand thinktank has managed to make savings a sexy topic. The New Zealand Institute’s CEO David Skilling explains why.
In many parts of the world, Jerry I Porras is probably best known as the man who teamed up with Jim Collins in the early 1990s, to produce the international bestseller Built to Last. The book has gone on to outsell every other business title over the past decade.
