New Zealand Management back issues from August 2008:
CONSULTATION : People or Strategy - Which Comes First?
Aug 01, 2008; ... Q I have just read Jim Collins' book Good To Great. He talksabout making sure that you get the right people on the bus beforeyou finalise your strategy. Is that right? I thought it would be theother way round. A Jim Collins has been in the international top-selling businessbook ...
TOP TEN TIPS : Recruiting and Retaining Good Staff
Aug 01, 2008; ... Good staff recruitment and retention are more vital than everbefore. Grant Thornton International recently found that employersin New Zealand are more worried about skills shortages than theircounterparts anywhere else in the world. A problem for many sectorsin this tight labour market ...
SUSTAINABILITY : Smoothing the Way to the Green Economic Boom
Aug 01, 2008; ... New research released in Australia, in addition to earlierstudies published in the United States, confirms major investmentopportunities will result from pricing and lowering greenhouse gasemissions. In New Zealand, research published by the New Zealand BusinessCouncil for ...
EMPLOYMENT LAW : Probationary Periods and Political Footballs
Aug 01, 2008; ... Get the feeling it's election year, anyone? The politicalfootball that is employment law has been tirelessly booted aroundParliament this year, sparking significant media attention. So far this year, changes that have taken effect includecompulsory employer KiwiSaver contributions, ...
FLEET LEASING : Pain at the Pumps - Cutting the Costs of Company Cars ; As petrol costs go ever higher, we're all feeling the pain at the pumps. But a company car is still a vital part of doing business for most organisations, and Robert Smith discovers that swapping a bigger vehicle for a smaller, more economical model isn't the only way to bring down a company's car costs.
Aug 01, 2008; ... While there is currently a lot of talk about the problems of peakoil and the impending end to the age of the automobile, the simplefact remains that many businesses still need cars. Getting out tovisit clients, meeting up with business associates and deliveringinformation and goods is ...
SUSTAINABILITY : Eco-achievers - Young, smart and environmentally aware ; With sustainability the catchword of the moment and both businesses and individuals recognising the need for resource efficiency,
Aug 01, 2008; ... The tightening of the high-skill labour market in recent yearshas been mirrored by a rise in environmental awareness and a focuson environmental problems, and the solutions needed to solve themhave become a vital part of the younger generation's thinking. And now, with the labour ...
CASE STUDY : A Licence to Grow - Exports built on Overseas Experience ; How do New Zealand businesses best leverage the opportunities offered in an increasingly "joined-up" world? Four-year-old Holistics Group provides a successful export model based on expertise and relationships built in offshore markets.
Aug 01, 2008; ... When Hollie McDowell and Ross McConnell left New Zealand in 2001with physiotherapy and engineering experience under their respectivebelts, the business that last year earned them a finalist placing inthe NZ Export Awards was not even a remote possibility. Now it's aremote reality - a ...
FACE TO FACE : Nigel Morrison - Sky's rocket? ; The challenge of leading a turnaround is what attracted Nigel Morrison to his role as CEO of SkyCity. With 15 years of gaming industry experience up his sleeve, will he provide the boost for its flagging fortunes? He's certainly not leaving that to chance.
Aug 01, 2008; ... Barely four months into his new role at the helm of SkyCity,Nigel Morrison has been busy injecting a new sense of energy intowhat he sees as a great company that has rather lost its edge overthe ...
LEAD STORY : Emissions Trading - So far it's all hot air - A carbon talkfest ; Never let it be said that we don't debate stuff here in New Zealand.While significant swathes of the world march towards carbon- constraint, we're enjoying a marvellous talkfest in our corner of the planet. Ruth Le Pla gets to grips with who is saying what about the Emissions Trading Scheme, and what this means for businesses.
Aug 01, 2008; ... When it comes to our proposed Emissions Trading Scheme, the funnything is we're only talking about 200 or so "points of obligation".That's a wonderful phrase for activities that will triggerobligations which will fall on affected companies. These companieswill have to go out and buy ...
THE DAILY DRUCKER : Calculated Obsolescence
Aug 01, 2008 ... Being the one who makes your product, process, or serviceobsolete is the only way to prevent your competitor from doing so. Innovating organisations spend neither time nor resources ondefending yesterday. Systematic abandonment of yesterday alone canfree the resources, and ...
NZIM : Learning & training - Lessons on Learning : Are we up with the play? ; Is New Zealand management learning and training up with best in the world? Kevin Gaunt, chief executive NZIM Northern, and Glenda Hamilton, training manager NZIM Southern, report on what they found when they attended the world's largest learning and training get- together at the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) conference and exposition in San Diego recently.
Aug 01, 2008; ... When it comes to embracing the latest ideas in managementtraining and learning, New Zealand's smallness may be its "savinggrace". That is at least one interpretation NZIM Northern CEO, KevinGaunt, puts on his observations from the ASTD's recent conference inSan Diego. "It was," ...
BOOKCASE : Harvard Business Review on The Persuasive Leader
Aug 01, 2008; ... * Harvard Business Press * RRP $40.00 A worthy publication and full of well-researched and presentedarguments, ...
BOOKCASE : Imagine: What Wedgwood, Da Vinci, Mozart, Eiffel, Disney (and many others) can teach us about innovation
Aug 01, 2008; ... * Ian Hunter * Penguin Group * RRP $40.00 Did you know that as well as improving the sewing machine ...
BOOKCASE : Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality
Aug 01, 2008; ... * Loretta Napoleoni * Allen & Unwin * RRP $35 Greed is such a powerful and enterprising motivator ....
ECONOMICS : Going Soft on Inflation?
Aug 01, 2008; ... Commentators who were dismayed early in June by the ReserveBank's signalling an easing of interest rates have cause to becomegreatly more perturbed. Their initial cause for disquiet was asuspicion that RBNZ governor Alan Bollard was going "soft" oninflation. Worse, early in July the ...
POLITICS : (Un)sustainable Politics
Aug 01, 2008; ... For nearly two years the Government has tried to make'sustainability' a core issue and a distinguishing point in thecoming election. It hoped climate change would be the vehicle. But as a slogan 'sustainability' is passive and abstract,inviting acquiescence rather than action ....
THOUGHT LEADER : Enabling a Wireless World
Aug 01, 2008; ... As the regulations under the Telecommunications Amendment Act2006 take effect, technology innovations are introduced and themajor political parties place broadband near the forefront of theirelection manifestos, 2008 is proving to be a very exciting year forthe New Zealand ...
AS I SEE IT : Travis O'Keefe
Aug 01, 2008 ... Travis O'Keefe is 37 and is the founder and CEO of Health TV - aNew Zealand Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) channel that is onscreens in GP waiting rooms around the country and reaches over onemillion viewers a month. The station has recently attracted amultimillion-dollar investment ...
ON THE MOVE
Aug 01, 2008 ... Brian Blake Leadership development and research institute Excelerator hasappointed Blake, managing director of DB Breweries, as its newchairman. A board member since 2005, he succeeds outgoing chair JuneMcCabe. David Mackenzie Christchurch City Holdings (CCHL) has ...
INTOUCH : Comment on a bigger role for business in education
Aug 01, 2008; ... As a Secondary Futures Guardian, I was enormously encouraged byTim Watkin's cover story in NZ Management magazine's June edition oneducating New Zealand's future managers. Particularly encouraging was Watkin's comment that the governmentofficials, educators and business leaders he ...
INTOUCH : Managers abroad
Aug 01, 2008 ... Caroline Meads is the global brand design manager for cementcompany Holcim. She is based in Zurich, Switzerland. What prompted you to seek work out of New Zealand? Originally I was content with living and working in New Zealand.I was doing well with a local company considered ...
INTOUCH : New Zealand Short of Future Business Leaders
Aug 01, 2008 ... New Zealand is facing a critical shortage of educated andexperienced future business leaders, according to a recent report bySwann Group. The report identifies a "demographic hole" in the country'sbusiness leadership pool of 35- to 50-year-olds and says the fast-emerging shortage ...
INTOUCH : Bribery and Corruption Risks
Aug 01, 2008 ... A lack of awareness of our own and far-reaching US anti-briberyand corruption laws is exposing New Zealand companies, operatingglobally, to increased risk, according to Mark Leishman, executivedirector of KPMG Forensic. More Kiwi companies are working offshore and more likely to ...
INTOUCH : Collaboration Key for Success
Aug 01, 2008 ... Supply chain collaboration is one of the secrets to success forNew Zealand companies involved in manufacturing, distribution andlogistics, according the Alan Stenger, who has just completed histerm as the Ports of Auckland visiting professor and chair inlogistics and supply chain ...
INTOUCH : Companies Waste Millions
Aug 01, 2008 ... An Auckland start-up business is on the lookout for companieswhich want to watch their spend and reduce their risk withsuppliers. Vendor Management - a resident of the Icehouse business incubator- is looking for early adopter customer companies to help with thedevelopment and ...
INTOUCH : New Zealand Business Games
Aug 01, 2008 ... Organisations are being urged to sign up now for October's 14thannual New Zealand Business Games. The New Zealand Business Gamesare the country's single largest business house event and tick allthe boxes for meeting an organisation's human resourcesrequirements. In the 13 years ...
INTOUCH : Relationships Essential to Success
Aug 01, 2008 ... High-performing organisations are distinguished by the attentionthey pay to critical business relationships. "Top performers do much more than focus on the maximisation ofshareholder value. They pay close attention to their relationshipswith customers, suppliers and employees," ...
INTOUCH : University of Auckland Short Courses
Aug 01, 2008 ... The University of Auckland Business School Short Coursesprogramme is celebrating 30,000 attendees, highlighting its value tothe business community. Axis Intermodal manager of planning Sam Ewing attended the"Change Management" course and became the 30,000th person to attenda Short ...
INTOUCH : A Wake-Up Call for Managers
Aug 01, 2008 ... A keynote address from Roland Jahnke, director of multi-billion-dollar global logistics company Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN), maybe just what New Zealand managers need to hear to help lift theirgame and profit in spite of the economic doldrums. As the country yearns to play ...
INTOUCH : Leadership lessons from China
Aug 01, 2008 ... Shanghai-based Andrew Grant reckons the Kiwi pioneering spirit isan asset in an offshore business environment he describes as "amicrocosm on steroids". The head of global management consultancy McKinsey & Co's GreaterChina practice says that country's unprecedented levels of ...
EDITOR'S LETTER : Deciphering the Talk
Aug 01, 2008; ... Emissions Trading Scheme - there's a lot of talk around but whatdo we really know about the planned scheme and how it will affectour lives and businesses? Without knowing what the final versionwill look like, and how much political support it will garner, manypeople not directly affected ...
EVENTS
Aug 01, 2008 ... August 1 Effective Use of Time. Dunedin. NZIM Southern.www.managementsouth.co.nz August 1 Business Plan Writing. NZIM Northern. www.nzim.net.nz August 1 Effective Use of Time. NZIM Central. www.nzimcentral.co.nz August 1 Sales ...
CORPORATE TRAVEL : Flights of Fashion - The Pros and Cons of Charter and Commercial ; Back in the 1980s it wasn't uncommon for large companies to own at least one plane.
Aug 01, 2008; ... The trend may have been short lived, however, once shareholdersrealised that doing away with them could add millions to the bottomline. Now charter airline companies say the practice of usingprivate aircraft could become more popular again and companies needto do their sums to figure out ...