Healthy Money, Healthy Planet: Developing Sustainability Through New Money Systems • Deirdre Kent • Craig Potton Publishing • $34.99 Sustainability is current buzz word among politicians and business leaders. It
Company directors must tread carefully through an increasingly treacherous landscape. The minefield of regulatory compliance is growing and so too are the expectations of a raft of stakeholders. Here’s what to look out for.
Which way will New Zealand’s compass swing as the geopolitical power base shifts east? How does an export-dependent economy cope with rising oil prices? Are we on the verge of a new, atomic-scale, technology revolution? Will climate change prove irreversible? Is the world flat? We ask some leading New Zealand thinkers about the ideas that will shape our future.
They’re worlds apart but share the same goals. The CEO/CIO teams of ASB, Pumpkin Patch and LINZ talk about how they get the best bang from their information technology buck.
In a joined-up world the plight of the polar bear is everybody’s problem. If melting ice caps seem like a million miles away from the daily challenges of manufacturing in Otara or milking in the Manawatu, think again. The case for New Zealand businesses to start heeding climate change issues is hotting up.
St Jude must be licking his lips. The patron saint of lost causes should be packing in the overtime as local manufacturers strive to survive in an environment increasingly dominated
Clouds may be gathering on the economic front but New Zealand’s top companies have spent the past financial year making proverbial hay while the sun still shone on one of
The evidence is compelling and increasingly voluminous – there is something seriously wrong with the state of management in New Zealand, and short-term prospects for improvement don’t look too good.
