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Interact
6 There's no ‘I’ in opportunity. Oh, wait …
From the editor
8 Contributors
Sam Eichblatt, Kris Herbert, Matt Nolan & Deirdre Robert
10 Revisited
14 Wiggs’ Way
Let Lance Wiggs help with your tricky business problems.
Now
16 Hacksaw mechanic
Steve Guinness channels his caffeine addiction into a deceptively simple way of saving cafes money
18 Gold standard
Nathan Goldsworthy’s self-assembled furniture is the first step in the designer’s move offshore
20 The French collection
Rod Fry’s Paris-based showroom of Kiwi art and design found an unexpected challenge: traditional French taste
22 Salvation island
A tiny island has become philanthropist John Gow’s new public arts project
24 Virtual vintners
Friendship, creative sponsorship and a new way of marketing wine
26 Our man from the institute
Rick Boven, executive director of the New Zealand Institute, took over from founding director David Skilling, who was not only very tall but had some large shoes to fill. So 18 months on, is Boven making his own mark? And what’s his big issue for 2011?
Features
36 The cable guys
Pacific Fibre looks like a perfect proposition: local heroes dreaming big, and hiring a crack team to bring New Zealand truly into the world of ubiquitous internet. But do these high-growth champions actually know anything about infrastructure? By Matt Cooney
44 Prints of darkness
Illicit can’t seem to catch a break: from the suicide of brilliant co-founder Martin Emond, the pillaging of its work by pop stars and rip-off artists, to the failure of its US partners. So the 15-year-old fashion label and K’ Road institution found a new voice and a new hip-hop market, though the joke, says Steve Hodge, remains the same. Now the US is calling again. By Florence Noble
50 After shock
Christchurch’s chocolate-box facade has cracked. The city will never be the same— but what will it choose to become? Kris Herbert meets the Cantabrians who are reinventing their city
Workshop
69 Books
David MacGregor on radical business and Mike Hutcheson on the oneupmanship between east and west
70 Drain brains
Want to keep our bright young things? Let’s give them the cities they want
70 Social mantra
Is social media the holy grail, a passing fad, or something else altogether?
72 I’ll make you an offer you can’t understand
Have you ever noticed that really competent people can explain things simply? Einstein managed to summarise the basic structure of the entire universe in five characters: E=mc2.
73 A modest proposal
It’s not tax we should be arguing over. It’s spending
74 Come together
Agencies need to learn to share
75 What’s in a name?
Our newest ministry has set itself a stern test
76 A question of perspective
We’re all in this together
78 Mixed messages
Takeaways are up—tyres are down
80 Parting shot
The Daily
Plus
29 IdealGear
Design-led delights
32 Good Vibrations
The Insitute for Biomedical Technologies
61 Just browsing, thanks
The internet’s power to transform traditional business is undisputed. Not only is it giving companies another channel through which to market themselves and sell their wares, it’s also helping them streamline their operations
62 Tailored to suit
An underperforming website taught Nicholas Jermyn Shirtmakers the value of investing in a world-class site
64 Overcoming information overload
There’s a lot going on in business, with digital information flowing thick and fast. Atlas takes the weight off its clients’ shoulders by tailoring digital asset management systems to suit their needs
66 Experience this!
Racking up page views as web-users research online is one thing, but converting that interest into quantifiable sales is quite something else. Young & Shand helped House of Travel provide a completely new experience for its online customers
