Category Archives: Development

Finding the fruitful intersection of ideas and organisation

Posted on February 18, 2014 by sticknz

 Ultimately this blog is a plug for Stephen Cummings handbook of ways that business can fruitfully marry management and creativity. Along the way it is also an endorsement of the Professor of Management at Victoria University’s Business School, and in … Continue reading →

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Opportunity lost? – a case study, Dr Werner Komposi

Posted on February 11, 2014 by sticknz

By guest blogger: Mike Doig Dr. Ingr Werner Komposi came to New Zealand about 12 years ago to take up employment at one of our universities. He was educated in Germany and while there divided his time between appointments in … Continue reading →

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Chipping in for multicore champion – let’s get parallel programming

Posted on February 4, 2014 by sticknz

 You’ve got to admire someone who has a vision, almost as much as someone who is prepared to use the word vision. So here’s a plug for Nicolas Erdody, founder of Open Parallel, and more importantly the organiser of Multicore … Continue reading →

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‘Always be pitching, looking for feedback’ – Wipster’s Rollo Wenlock

Posted on November 19, 2013 by sticknz

“Get your idea out there as much as possible, pitch it to everyone, even to strangers in a cafe, see what happens. If it doesn’t resonate, you probably don’t have anything.” That was Wipster head sherang’s advice given at Wellington’s … Continue reading →

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Plenty of traps along the way for pest eradicators

Posted on October 29, 2013 by sticknz

No one ever said that creating and perfecting a resetting, toxin free pest trap was going to be easy. The guys at Goodnature would be the first to agree, but, 12,000 or so sold traps later, the Wellington company that … Continue reading →

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Appiness is good service – Icestack launches its moonshot to America

Posted on August 27, 2013 by sticknz

Given that his presentation was to the MobileTech Summit 2013, a primary industry focused event, Andrew McPherson’s app analogy was very apt. A tractor can be likened to a mobile device, the tool that is driven off the Power Take … Continue reading →

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Primary industry mobile tech forum draws the digerati

Posted on August 20, 2013 by sticknz

Numbers tell a story on their own. And the fact that over 220 attendees ponyed up at the Mobile Tech Summit 2013 in Wellington on August 7 & 8 underscores the message that our natural resources aren’t as old-hat as … Continue reading →

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Reading between the lines – an app to promote a book digital conversation

Posted on August 13, 2013 by sticknz

How can the book publishing world engage in a digital world? Amazon’s claimed much of the high ground in the ebook format, and others are scrambling with their own offers. At the same time, your traditional publishers aren’t going to … Continue reading →

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Connecting business and organisations by collaborating on content – Flightdec

Posted on August 6, 2013 by sticknz

One of the small ironies of the internet-enabled world is that it is meant to bring communities of interest closer together. And while there’s Facebook and Twitter and other social media connectors, no one has really cracked the wider challenge … Continue reading →

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Magritek looking to be less lonely

Posted on July 23, 2013 by sticknz

I had the pleasure of catching up with Magritek last week when it announced a new cornerstone shareholder in Wellington-based private equity investor Rangatira. It is an opportunity for Magritek to up its sales and marketing effort around its relatively … Continue reading →

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