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May 22, 2012
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Soft-launching a game in New Zealand is proving a strategic move for game developers Hidden Variable Studios – founded by three industry veterans of Kiwi and
American descent, it’s releasing its first app, Bag It! in New Zealand today prior to a worldwide launch next month. Why? Creative director and expat Kiwi Charley Price says we’re pretty savvy when it comes to technology and certainly aren’t shy about being vocal, which is exactly the kind of audience they’re after.
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The plaudits just keep on coming for Kiwi
cleantech firm LanzaTech – not only has it held onto its spot in the
prestigious Global Cleantech Top
100 but been named “Company of the Year Asia Pacific” for 2011 to boot. The
clean energy technology company has also been judged to have shown the
“Best Innovation by an SME” in the global ICIS Innovations Awards.
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New Zealand businesses are failing to capitalise on growing opportunities in Asia, a new report commissioned by the Asia
New Zealand Foundation has found. Business commentator Rod Oram
interviewed senior executives at Fonterra, Tatua Co-operative Dairy
Company, Beca,
Icebreaker, Snowy Peak and Comvita and concluded that most companies did
not have the management skills to succeed in Asian markets. While “soft”
skills, including language and cross-cultural understanding, were important, the bigger issue
for New Zealand companies was their hard business
skills were “very inadequate when it comes to working overseas”.
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Broadcasting is broken – and Fairfax is hoping its new model can fix it. Publishers around the world
are embracing visual media to try and
fill the financial void, and Fairfax will join that brigade with its
soon-to-launch local IPTV arm.
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R&D has long been a political football, but it’s time for government to stop flip-flopping on the issue. Cuts to
government spending aren’t going to lift New Zealand out of the economic
doldrums. Investment in research and development just might.
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The election battle is officially heating up, with
National promising to sweeten Kiwisaver with auto-enrolment and Labour
touting industry-specific minimum wage levels. Finance minister Bill English said Kiwi employees not already in the
scheme would be automatically enrolled come 2014/15 – assuming the
government’s books are back in the black by then – far from a
sure thing. Meanwhile, Labour is wooing voters with the promise of introducing pay
‘floors’ that would vary by industry.
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“There just wasn’t enough time.” Who would have guessed that this classic quote from Marlon Brando in the Godfather
trilogy would be echoing through many boardrooms today? Aaron Wallace reflects on change management and succession planning.
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