In nod to the critical impact of talent management and retention on organisational performance, the newest recruit to the group of sponsors for the Deloitte/Management magazine Top200 Awards, is executive
Sir Ken Stevens lifelong service to business, and in particular the export sector, has been recognised in his receipt of the inaugural Exporters Champion award for exemplary services to export
While New Zealand exporters have been finding it tough, with confidence at an all time low, just over half are still cautiously optimistic about the next 12 months according to
The judges for this year’s Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Awards have been appointed. They are professional director Sandy Maier, Forsyth Barr’s Neil Paviour-Smith and Suzanne Snively of MoreMedia Enterprises. Reg
Organisational openness and the importance of of cultivating connections are among number of key themes to emerge from IBM’s recently released fifth biennial global CEO study. The study is the
Practical insights, techniques and case studies for ensuring success are on offer at an upcoming symposium in Wellington. Project-based management services company Project Plus is running the NZ PMO Symposium
Taxi billing solutions provider TaxiCharge NZ is expanding its card business to help corporate taxi users to manage and control their taxi spend. The company has launched voucher cards which
The Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards took place at the Auckland Art Gallery on Friday 22 June. The Blake Medal was presented to iconic sporting and education leader Sir John
Could we do with wiser leaders? It seems, on the face of it, like silly question. But it needs to be asked. There is, you see, paradoxical gap between the
Born and raised in South Canterbury, Todd Somerville is Kea director for the UK and Europe.
The latest IMD survey delivers a serious wake-up call to New Zealand business and policymakers.
John Judge has been appointed chairman of the ANZ National Bank. He replaced Sir Dryden Spring who stepped down last month. And while on the subject of banking industry directorships,
David Shearer’s first six months as Labour leader were not the bold, knock-em-down poll-ramping the traditional media measure. So they fed off rumour-mongering right-wing and left-of-Labour blogs to roast him.
Bad news travels fast in turbulent times. And as London’s Financial Times newspaper wrote recently, today’s nervous investors are especially quick off the mark. Examples of quick-fire investor reactions, from
The call for greater diversity in governance can’t be satisfied without more aspiring directors and trustees stepping up. But as Sina Wendt-Moore points out, candidates aren’t always sure how to go about it.
Mining for more women in local body governance
When it comes to advising clients undertaking board fee reviews, public relations experts may be as valuable as we, the remuneration consultants, are. Dysfunctional boards pose potentially greater risks to
John Judge has been appointed chairman of the ANZ National Bank. He replaced Sir Dryden Spring who stepped down last month. And while on the subject of banking industry directorships,
Bad news travels fast in turbulent times. And as London’s Financial Times newspaper wrote recently, today’s nervous investors are especially quick off the mark. Examples of quick-fire investor reactions, from
Moves last month to fast track more women on to public listed company boards are welcome, if long overdue. The evidence supporting more aggressive strategies to elect more women onto
Wall Street has made risk dirty word, associated with recklessness, gambling and certain moral vacuum. Yet, calculated risks are exactly what company requires if it wants to shift from being
Smaller, more fuel-efficient, well spec’d and less flashy… our fleets of company vehicles are changing for the better. Vivienne McLean checks out the fleet-leasing business.
Moves last month to fast track more women on to public listed company boards are welcome, if long overdue. The evidence supporting more aggressive strategies to elect more women onto
Entries are being sought for the 2012 Deloitte Fast 50 – the 12th year that high-growth businesses have been invited to benchmark their business growth over the past three years against each other.
Another survey released by the ASB shows while awareness of the importance of superannuation is increasing many of us aren’t saving nearly enough for our retirement.
You can’t spend wisely on marketing unless you understand its full impact on your business. Here are five questions executives should be asking to help maximise the bang for their bucks.
There are some signs of improvement in New Zealand’s sluggish labour market with the latest SEEK New Job Ad Index revealing a 6.4% year-on-year increase in the number of new jobs.
Most New Zealanders are firmly in favour of making contributions to a national retirement savings scheme compulsory, a survey being released today shows.
The top of the South Island is New Zealand’s best performing economic region at present, according to ASB/Main Report’s latest regional economic scoreboard.
New Zealand urgently needs to improve its own environmental record to protect the clean, green image that benefits the sale of much of what we produce and export, a recent report from business lobby group Pure Advantage argues.
Otago University’s Business School and the University of South Australia are pairing up to provide an A$29,000 PhD scholarship opportunity for research on cross-Tasman or international issues.
Tony Falkenstein says business leaders could benefit from the fresh, unstructured thinking that is often inherent in unschooled young minds.
Business leaders need to get the fundamentals – such as culture and a competitive advantage – right and then “just go for it”.
Bridget Liddell has called for greater recognition of cognitive diversity within New Zealand work groups.
Bad news from the just-released IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook which shows New Zealand’s global competitiveness has slipped back from 21st to 24th place out of the 59 economies put under the spotlight.
Young execs have until June 20 to register in teams of three to five people for this year’s AAMO (Asian Association of Management Organisations) Management Challenge.
Chorus NZ and FedEx Express (NZ) are among the best employers in Australia and New Zealand, according to a recent Aon Hewitt survey of over 74,000 employees across 165 companies. So, too, are the New Zealand and Australia operations of Express Data, Janssen and SEEK.
What underpins the achievements of individuals, organisations or nations? And how can we generate more of whatever that may be? In this month’s cover story we celebrate the winners of
John Evans spent last summer in Antarctica as the Sir Peter Blake Trust’s 2011 Antarctic Youth Ambassador.
• By Barbara Kellerman • Harper Business • RRP $44.99 Like many business journalists, loosely defined, good slice of my living has come from peddling thoughts – not advice –
• By Gary Hamel • Jossey-Bass • RRP $37.99 How to overcome the limitations of today’s management practices without losing the benefits they confer – that is, if not the
As Kea NZ knows only too well, this country pumps out some brilliant individuals. Like the winners of this year’s World Class NZ Awards, they’re talented, savvy and easily able to foot it on the global stage. But, as a country, we struggle to create a shared vision for our nation’s reputation, brand and future prospects. Nick Grant asks six leading Kiwi businesspeople to talk about their own vision for Brand NZ in a fast-changing world.
While European voters were expressing their disapproval of economic austerity early in May, Finance Minister Bill English was tidying his 2012 Budget for unveiling later in the month. Maintaining an
The roots of New Zealand’s economy are dug deep into a primary sector that still earns the bulk of this country’s income. But are we making the most of our food basket heritage? Vicki Jayne does her own digging.
Business sustainability advocate Penny Nelson has been appointed inaugural executive director of the Sustainable Business Council, formed in early 2012 from the merger of the BusinessNZ Sustainable Business Forum and
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It’s one of those pieces of news that causes you to pause and reflect moment on what the world has come to. In 2011, one of the US’ largest non-profit
For Thomas Pippos, a role as CEO of Deloitte New Zealand has been a lifetime in the making. Ensconced in the top seat since November last year, he brings to the job a keen sense of a legacy born from having worked alongside many of the firm’s brightest leaders and a professional life dedicated to squaring up to complex challenges.
The oft-maligned weather plays a positive role in Wellington’s dynamic business culture.
Victoria University of Wellington has conferred an honorary Doctor of Commerce degree on Sir John Anderson. The move recognises Sir John’s achievements in business and service to the country. He
Managing and coaching seem to be poles apart but effective managers are often great coaches, according to talent management consultancy Right Management. The firm sees growing number of organisations showing
Business growth, upgrades and shortage of skilled staff are combining to drive up salaries in the technology sector. New Zealand technology staff can look forward to an average 3.8 percent
A programme that’s saved more than $500 million in energy costs has won Air New Zealand the title of supreme winner at the 2012 EECA Awards. The airline, which also
Employers and jobseekers can now check out the cost of talent across Asia Pacific thanks to new regional compendium by global workforce solutions company Kelly Services. The guide outlines comparative
Attracting younger people to their organisations is one of the biggest challenges facing the non-profit sector during the economic downturn. As the average age of members and volunteers continues to
A reminder that organisations had best stick to the letter of anti-spam laws comes in the form of recent notice from the Department of Internal Affairs’ Anti-Spam Compliance Unit. The
To Dr Darrell Bricker, public opinion is like smell. People either like something or they don’t and there’s often little rationale behind the reaction. “That’s how the public makes up
There’s something rotten about the world of leadership. New findings and thinking about the authenticity of leadership and the “industry” that feeds upon the idea of leadership are emerging like
After five years as New Zealand’s senior permanent representative to the United Nations, Kirsty Graham switched to take up her current role as Pfizer’s senior director for international public affairs for Asia/Pacific and Canada. She’s now based in New York.
Are Kiwi enterprises and managers sufficiently prepared to tap into new trade opportunities in Asia?
Working with some of life’s difficult people? Try focusing on their performance rather than on the individual, says Margaret Inge-Frost.
Six months into the first year of its second term the Government was on the back foot. How did this happen, after big vote of confidence last November? Blame management.
The average Kiwi seems to be innately programmed with the view that we are, as nation, an inventive and resourceful bunch. We’ve historically taken great pride in our pioneering spirit,
1 Check yourself The famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung once wrote that people make decisions by using preference for either feeling or thinking. feeling person bases their decisions on personal
The 2012/13 Budget has met the Government’s commitment to fiscal discipline by paring back the fiscal deficit over the next two years (it’s down to -$8.4 billion in 2011/12) to deliver a surplus in 2014/15. But it will be a thin one ($197 million), according to Budget Day projections, and Finance Minister Bill English said getting there would be a tough slog.
Online shopping now accounts for almost a fifth of all purchases in developed markets and is growing at between 15 and 20 percent per annum, according to a new report by Goodman Group.
Ethnic businesspeople in New Zealand are leading the way in doing business with some of New Zealand’s key export markets, according to the ANZ’s 2012 Privately-owned Business Barometer, a survey of 4000 businesses across the country.
New research from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) shows that companies need to make good on their stated commitment to promote gender equity.
Flexible workplaces specialist Regus is offering a free test for managers wanting to check how their workplace practices stack up internationally.
Projects on police recruitment, smokefree prisons, pest eradication and blood transfusions are among 27 initiatives picked as finalists for this year’s Institute of Public Administration New Zealand (IPANZ) gen-i Public Sector Excellence Awards.
London Business School is partnering with Deloitte to offer free access to what it calls some of the brightest minds from the worlds of business and sport via its 2012 Global Leadership Summit.
Entries are now open for companies trading with the United States to put themselves forward for this year’s American Chamber of Commerce – DHL Express Success & Innovation Awards.
Symantec Corp’s latest Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 17 shows that the number of malicious attacks skyrocketed by 81 percent last year.
In a seemingly counter-intuitive piece, the writers of the Schumpeter column in the latest issue of The Economist argue that companies should worry less about their reputations.
Senior business leaders have until Friday 1 June to nominate this year’s Most Reputable Organisations (MRO) via a research study initiated by global management consulting firm Hay Group and NZ Management magazine.
Professional job seekers can check their current market worth in over 20 countries with the latest Salary Checker iPhone app from Robert Walters.
A new survey by Kelly Services suggests New Zealand employers may not have to splash the cash to hold on to top talent.
Organisations are being encouraged to set up and run their own leadership events as part of the upcoming annual nationwide Leadership Week from 22 to 29 June.
In this issue, a series of news snippets explores that sweet spot where
motivated staff work in profitable companies serving satisfied customers.
In a new thinkpiece on raising children, consulting psychologist Dr Martyn Newman suggests seven ways parents can build their kids’ resilience. “The same rules also work for building cultures of resilient people in your business,” he says.
More than two-thirds (68 percent) of New Zealand employees say they definitely intend to look for a new job with another employer within the next year, according to a new survey by Kelly Services.
Kiwibank, SBS Bank, Novotel, Vodafone and Genesis Energy are getting it right, according to a survey of over 12,000 New Zealand consumers asked to rate products and services on a five-point scale.
New Zealand can learn much from America’s current economic and political plight says US Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Friedman. He told NZ Management’s Reg Birchfield we should focus on five fundamentals.
Jasons Travel Media founder John Sandford is back at the helm as chairman of Jasons’ board following governance re-shuffle of the NZAX-listed company. Sandford replaced former chairman Geoff Burns who
For many it’s seen as the passport to advancement, dangling the prize of more challenging roles, better money and the cachet that goes with completing course of study notorious for
• By Mark Royal and Tom Agnew • Amacom • RRP $35.95 Hay Group researchers Mark Royal and Tom Agnew think workplace frustration is killer organisational disease. They have used
• Edited by Anita Chan • Cornell University Press • RRP $49.95 What happens when the world’s largest organisation meets the world’s most populous country? It sounds like the script
Evaluating the performance of any board, its committees and its individual directors is responsibility board chairs simply shouldn’t shirk. It involves directors undertaking constructive but critical review of their collective
Simon Telfer wants better boards. Who doesn’t? The difference is, he’s working seriously hard to build them. One of the founders of Springboard, not-for-profit (NFP) designed to enthuse and mould
Governance and organisational leadership so bad that it drove enterprises into receivership and liquidation have kept Kerryn Downey busy for 30 years reconstructing or rubbish-binning them. Now he wants to share some of the lessons he has learned.
When it comes to advising clients undertaking board fee reviews, public relations experts may be as valuable as we, the remuneration consultants, are. Pay issues are always and universally emotive.
Directors and trustees should, from time to time, ask themselves whether the way in which their organisation is governed is appropriate for its size and stage of life.
What makes an advertising agency great? It’s much more than just the creative work. The 2012 Fairfax AdMedia Agency of the Year Awards judged the business side of agency performance.
TVNZ has appointed Kevin Kenrick as its new CEO, replacing Rick Ellis, who joined Telstra Australia in January. Kenrick is Kiwi, whose most recent position was as CEO at House
