by JAK | Jan 14, 2014 | culture, industry futures
Over the Christmas break I managed I read Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and re-read Malcolm Gladwells – “Outliers – The Story of Success”. Two very different books but I was intrigued about the role of characters...
by JAK | Jan 6, 2014 | big ideas, industry futures
In a recent column on Why NZ’s return to investment in tertiary education is so low columnist Brian Fallow quotes an OECD study (440 pages) but actually gets his analysis mostly wrong. This is a big problem in mainstream media today where presumably because of...
by JAK | Jan 4, 2014 | culture
It is the Christmas holidays in New Zealand and in the Southern Hemisphere we are all in t-shirts and at the beach for the most part. Business in New Zealand closes down for most of January and is pretty sleepy in February as well on account of the summer music...
by JAK | Nov 9, 2013 | big data, industry futures, online marketing
So this week after 7 years of business, Twitter finally listed on the NYSE in an IPO. Shares were valued at $26 and only 70m were on offer. Predictably the shares went as high as $50.9 inside the first 2 days and have now dropped back to $44.9 which gives them a...
by JAK | Nov 2, 2013 | big ideas, culture, industry futures, TEDx, video
On Dec 7th ( NZ time) TEDxHomebushRdWomen becomes the first TEDxWomens event in New Zealand. It runs from 1:00 – 6.00 pm at the City Gallery in Wellington. The #TEDxHomebushRdWomen event is timed to coincide with a global TEDxWomen event being held on Dec 5th in...
