by JAK | Sep 9, 2012 | big ideas, culture, TED
Last year I was listening to a tech software guy talk about healthcare budgets and how that was shaping up as the perfect storm for the sector. It is an important problem for our society and raises a whole range of ethical and practical questions. The key idea is that...
by JAK | Dec 29, 2011 | big ideas, culture, general business, industry futures
As in many countries, New Zealand has had several prime city locations occupied in recent weeks as part of the Occupy Wall St OWS movement. OWS is an ongoing movement which aims to reset the economic agendas and local debates about equality of citizens and to try and...
by JAK | Sep 23, 2008 | general business
Thanks to the reader who spotted this paper by Bronwyn E. Howell which was presented at a conference in Rome, Italy, September 17-20, 2008. Abstract: Using an efficiency-based framework, this paper analyses the performance of New Zealand’s telecommunications...
by JAK | Nov 19, 2006 | general business
Rod Drury (in his excellent blog) has raised again the tremendous waste of resources around the RFP processes for bidding on government contracts. He offers some actual suggestions that I’d like to see debated more widely. As procurement policy is so important...
