by JAK | May 24, 2009 | culture
This morning I was one of several thousand people who crossed the Auckland Harbour Bridge by foot and cycle. There was everyone from babies to grandparents waiting patiently until about 9:45 when 8 break away cyclists crossed from Shelly beach anyway. Very good to...
by JAK | May 23, 2009 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
A few weeks back I noticed a review on Techcrunch about OpenTable. That company IPO’d last week raising $70m to fund their growth. “On OpenTable you can search for immediate openings in a given neighborhood. Most online reservations sites have an hour cut...
by JAK | May 11, 2009 | culture
Most of my work is online and so once a new activity is in train the follow on step is to find ways to speed up the process so that I can scale up my work. Sometimes this is because I can offer a new service if I can reinvent a process in a smart way but more often...
by JAK | May 5, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures, TED
As beings it seems to me that – we are all wired to look for patterns partly to decipher meaning but also because the sheer amount of information we get can be so overwhelming. We are also constantly comparing the “news” to our own reference points...
by JAK | Apr 29, 2009 | big ideas
For the past week or so it has been interesting to note the different media treatments of the developing swine flu story. It now clear that globalisation and easy air travel means there are almost certainly more case of the flu than we know about and in more places....
by JAK | Apr 15, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures, TED
The other week I was dropping a neighbours kid home from an after school programme. He asked me why my car wasn’t a flash new one. I wanted to say that I’m trying to reduce the size of my carbon footprint and I’m hoping this is the last petrol...
by JAK | Apr 11, 2009 | big ideas
Now here is an interesting idea. A 1 year mortgage holiday from some banks in Australia and possibly in NZ as well. Reading the fine print I’m guessing it is only a few really good customers (higher equity ratios?) who will qualify but it does offer some hope...
by JAK | Apr 7, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures
Hazel Henderson writes in a recent post “A venture capitalist friend of mine asked me in a recent discussion about the financial meltdown, “who will be the new financiers?” I answered immediately, “the new financiers will be the high-level information and...
by JAK | Mar 17, 2009 | big ideas
How would you like NZ$1m of R& D help in for your company to reposition and diversify through inovation? There is a competition on over at http://whatsyourproblemnz.co.nz/ This kind of competition can help with morale and practical help to acelerate other projects...
by JAK | Feb 25, 2009 | big ideas, industry futures
A few weeks ago the World Economic Forum took place in Davos. NZ has a Jobs Summit this Friday 27th Feb Stewart Wallis from Nef (the new economics foundation) was there (Davos) and made these observations. “People are clearly prepared to listen to ideas that...
