A Shout out from Jono Broom, Founder of Bean Merchant. I grabbed my daily coffee this morning and I turned on the radio. Two mundane routines right? But what I was not expecting was to hear one of our clients telling Kathryn Ryan on National Radio how we had built his e-commerce system and automated …
The border is closed. For 12 weeks or 12 months is unknowable. We are largely at the mercy of events outside this country. Will the US and Europe get the pandemic under control? Will a vaccine be found? Will overseas travel restrictions be lifted too early? I like to say that if a problem is …
You’ve all received emails about what businesses are doing to protect their teams, their customers, and the country at large from Covid-19. Naturally we are taking all sensible precautions as well, and we’d encourage you to do the same. But we thought this crisis is also an opportunity to think about the future. What happens …
Sales are getting harder. That’s what everyone is saying. When we first meet new potential clients, that’s the bottom line of their problems. If you do some research, you’ll find that an increasing number of companies found 2019 harder than 2018. For those companies that grew in 2019, they still grew less than in 2018. …
We’re asking for your help to combat intolerance, and provide opportunities to marginalised communities 2 weeks ago in Christchurch, 50 innocent people were murdered and 48 were injured, when they were in their place of worship. Were you shocked? Were you surprised? If you are in the ethnic and cultural majority, you may not be …
Customer Focus vs. Changing the rules; it’s not Either Or In the 2000s, the startups that became Unicorns (with $1bn values) created whole new markets. Google created an online auction for advertising (Adwords) that generates $US95bn in advertising. Facebook created an interest-based advertising engine with $US33bn in annual revenue. Meanwhile Amazon, which started of selling …
E-commerce platforms and Innovation are the answer Every day, it seems, we read another Chicken Little story – the world is ending. So we’re tempted to take the next story with a pinch of salt. As business leaders, we have survived many apocalyptic warnings and what we did last year still seems to be working …
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Is the key to innovation for corporates partnering with startups or is there more to it? On 24 May 2018, I was fortunate enough to participate in a Techweek debate organised by Pixel Fusion. The topic was “The key to successful corporate innovation is corporates partnering with startups”. Luckily, to suit my rebel personality, …
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