Once a backroom specialisation, supply chain management is now a key differentiating factor for companies wanting to gain competitive advantage from being smarter, faster and more compatible with both upstream and downstream service partners. Mark Peart checks out the latest developments.
How can local companies best keep up with rapidly changing markets and an obsolesence rate that will see an estimated 70 percent of today’s manufactured goods killed off by 2010?
Robert Smith A sense of ownership is one of the main attractions for the new CEO at Paper Plus. Robert Smith, who joins the organisation later this month, says Paper
The New Zealand Institute of Management has awarded two new Life Fellows – Cameron (Cam) Moore from Christchurch and Reg Birchfield from Auckland. Moore is director of his own company,
The percentage of fast growing companies in New Zealand has doubled in the past year but at 13 percent we still lag well behind the United States which topped the
“If Saddam Hussein had understood the importance of timing strategy, he would have won the first Persian Gulf war.” To arrive at this conclusion, associate professor Stuart Albert of the
Gavin Johnson, principal consultant on health and safety for NZIM, will be available in New Zealand during September/October for in-house consulting work and training assignments. Johnson, who normally resides in
Kiwi companies are becoming very efficient at what they do in terms of human resource processes – but they’re still haemorrhaging top people and failing to make best use of
It’s hard to imagine how local business not only survives but in many cases thrives in an environment where nearly two thirds of workers say they don’t trust the boss.
More than one third of New Zealand businesses sought finance during the year to August 2004 and 90 percent got either some or all the money they requested. The inaugural
If strong management stems from open-minded appraisal of new ideas, many in the business community could do well to check out Avi Lewis’ latest film The Take. Scheduled for local
Traditionally there has been boom or bust look to the New Zealand economy. Soaring meat and wool prices and Rob Muldoon’s expansionary Budget in 1972 led to full-scale economic boom
As multinational building products company Fletcher Building recently discovered, course customisation is the point at which the company’s strategic evolution, executive career development, and leadership incubation collide.
How an old hand pulled New Zealand’s famous whiteware maker through a difficult patch.
There have been plenty of examples in recent times of individuals and organisations succumbing to an attack of “visual viruses” – otherwise known as inappropriate images in the workplace. Despite
Twenty-one years ago before another election, the Labour Party of the day – which I represented – did not have the word sustainability in its manifesto. The term sustainable development
Affluenza: When too much is never enough By: Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss Publisher: Allen & Unwin Price: $29.99 Writing in the International Herald Tribune back in March, former Business
Ignorance of security problems is no longer an excuse. A growing raft of legislation says the buck stops with the boss.
The Government came into 2005 with two main selling points for this year’s election: the buoyant economy and credible claim to competence. Both lost traction during the autumn. The economy
Jasmine Watkins undertook the ambitious project of defining the people business by interviewing a range of highly competent organisational development and human resources practitioners.
Several recent surveys have predicted slowdown in the economy over the next year or so with the growth rate likely to fall from little over four percent to around two
The Government has set aside around $10 million to develop processes for improving the teaching competence of adult and tertiary teachers by establishing a national centre for tertiary teaching excellence. A task group called the Teaching Matters Forum has called for submissions on what is required. This article is based on what the New Zealand Institute of Management told the Forum such a centre needs.
June 16-17 Fundamentals of Project Management Contact Avelien Benjaminsen, 0-9-303 9103, [email protected] or www.nzim.net.nz June 16-17 Mental Toughness University of Auckland Business School. Contact 0800 800 875, [email protected] or www.shortcourses.ac.nz
World-renowned business thinker and corporate strategist Henry Mintzberg first came to prominence with his book The Nature of Managerial Work. Since then he has written number of books covering diverse
Q Over the years our organisation has experienced constant change. First, we went through cycle of creating central support functions to reduce costs and then after few years turned around
Why better bods mean better corporate odds. And what companies can do to ensure staff take the emphasis off stress.
When is growth not good news? When it relates to the size of the nation’s state sector and it’s election year. Back at the start of this year, Treasury revealed
Labour would have been smarting from the results of poll published few hours earlier, as this column was being prepared for the printer. The National Business Review-Phillips Fox poll put
Government is not a simple business. How then do you go about the business of government? As Colin James reports, that question underlies much of the froth that will bubble around the coming election.
The over-regulation of corporate governance could hasten the demise of the public company and push a widespread move to private equity enterprise.
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