by JAK | May 15, 2024 | big ideas, industry futures
It seems like the mainstream media stories are missing most of the good news about solar, wind and batteries ( renewables) dramatically improving the electricity generation future for NZ and many other countries. Because I am working on some futures type projects I...
by JAK | May 14, 2024 | big ideas, industry futures
Back in the 90’s early 2000’s I found myself at the BHP training centre in Victoria. I was there as part of an in house training thing for some consulting group that I worked at for a while. The point is – there was a swimming pool and the NZ team...
by JAK | Jan 20, 2024 | culture, industry futures
As Mark Twain said ” rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated”. The Dairy sector is far from dead but sleepwalking towards destruction might be a better metaphor. As shocking as it sounds the impending death of the NZ Dairy sector should be taken...
by JAK | Apr 13, 2020 | general business, industry futures
With the pandemic on many of us are in lockdown mode and wondering how to re-imagine our lives and our businesses when the health risks can be mitigated more easily. If you are in NZ we are trying to “flatten the curve” by limiting the spread of the...
by JAK | Dec 13, 2018 | general business, industry futures, WordPress
Last week WordPress core was updated to version 5.0. A new version is generally no big deal and if you look at the release archive you can see this is number 12* for the year. Most of those are incremental updates prompted by performance or security improvements. In...
by JAK | Oct 3, 2018 | culture, general business, industry futures
The combined population of Australia and New Zealand is about 29m as of October 2018. The population of the Nordic countries is about the same. The Nordic region includes Scandinavia of which Sweden is the largest country by population. According to the...
