NZBusiness and Management

It has been many years since my wife and I owned a business, and yet the stress of that whole experience is still fresh in our minds. Nothing truly prepares you for the endless challenges, the sleepless nights, the financial pressures and the anxiety

RESEARCH BY the Artificial Intelligence Forum of New Zealand (AI Forum) calls for urgent action to progress the use of AI to address some of the country’s most pressing social, environmental and economic challenges, and not wait for a formal Governme

The compulsory rollout of Payday Filing coupled with Inland Revenue’s modernisation of their platform has resulted in some challenges for the industry says iPayroll managing director Martin Gleeson. iPayroll has been working with Inland Revenue close

How are Business Owners letting themselves down in 2019? From Lisa Martin’s viewpoint it’s through the inability to plan, a failure to grasp the fundamentals of business planning, and the old chestnut of ‘being busy being busy’. “All of which means y

Many employers manage their payroll manually in a spreadsheet, but this can be a particularly painful process. Having to calculate different pay and taxes, tracking leave and managing expenses can be confusing, and there’s always the risk of human er

DATA IS POWER. We’ve long known that good insights can make or break the success of a business or a project. But I’m often surprised to see businesses who aren’t engaging with their customers through the use of data. I’m talking about more than build

IF YOU ARE worrying about the impending recession that the news media seem to be hell-bent on bringing about, you are not alone. The biggest impacting factor in a recession is confidence – business confidence, consumer confidence, spending confidence

THIS PIECE started with my checking the “In Case of Emergency” requirements for driving in France. All cars visiting France are legally obligated to carry a number of devices – a warning triangle, first-aid kit, torch, yellow ‘hazvest’ for each perso

NEW ZEALAND may be a small country, but we have some bright ideas. While some are based on engineering, like RocketLab and the Hamilton jet, others come down to service delivery – and that’s where franchising scores big. Applied properly, franchising

I was recently asked by a senior executive to speak to the leaders and managers in their team about leading and working in distributed teams. How could they work as an increasingly distributed team without losing their staff in the process? As I look

“DIVERSITY IS being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance.” With that generally helpful phrase, Diversity Consulting director Bev Cassidy-McKenzie recently opened a half-day workshop on unconscious bias in the workplace. I was part

The way we communicate is changing so very profoundly. With family and friends overseas it is all through Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, Instagram, Google Hangouts, Apple Facetime and many other equally great apps. We can learn to do just about a