by JAK | Mar 6, 2018 | general business, industry futures
Business readers in New Zealand may have noticed that one of the largest companies here has accrued just over $1b of losses in the past since March last year including impairments. They also fired their CEO and the Chairman had the good grace to resign. The other...
by JAK | May 31, 2017 | culture, development, general business, online marketing
Every day I wake up and think about where I can add value to the projects I’m working on. In my world unless you have that little extra bit the “pixie dust” as I call it you may as well outsource yourself. Of course not everyone can but it is a smart...
by JAK | Apr 11, 2017 | crmthinking, culture, general business
Just this week United Airlines dragged a customer off a plane and destroyed their brand for many customers. Last week Pepsi and Nivea also had tone deaf communications disasters. These are high profile screw-ups but many companies do worse on a daily basis by...
by JAK | Dec 15, 2016 | culture, general business, industry futures, WordPress
It is the end of a school / university year and people are thinking about what to do to become more web savvy. Here are some ideas. The notes below are the latest version of a set of conversations for anyone wanting to explore web development as a job or even as a...
by JAK | Sep 16, 2016 | culture, general business, industry futures
Or are they Utopian revolutionaries? Ouch… @bentarnoff has written about why some people hate the tech industry in an article called Gaffes, ignorance and PR nightmares: why it’s so easy to hate the tech industry for the Guardian. “The reality is...
by JAK | May 11, 2016 | culture, general business
Over at Public Address there is a post called Forgetting what we didn’t know which is about the New Zealand media / government response to the #PanamaPapers. In short various stories and government comments imply that the revelations have amounted to nothing....
