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Posted by Andy Hamilton on Monday, July 09, 2012

The ICEHOUSE Network Event 2012

The Future of Busines Wired for Success! Network Event Inspires Action At today’s ICEHOUSE Network Event in Auckland, we had the pleasure of hearing from an impressive line-up of speakers about their own journey to success and their different approaches to improving New Zealand’s economic growth. Speakers included Tim Longhurst, Business Futurist; Chris Quin, CEO Gen i; Rob Adams, Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and Author; Sarah Gibbs, Co-Founder of Trilogy; Vinny Lohan, Founder and CEO, OneBeep. As a business futurist, Tim framed up our afternoon with some insight into business trends, talking about harnessing the power of small, collapsing barriers and relying on the wisdom in the group. He talked of the 10c campaign and multinationals acting small with campaigns that break down barriers between them…

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Posted by Andy Hamilton on Sunday, March 04, 2012

Business Processes Design – Mapping and Redesign

I recently ran a one-day seminar on Navigating Turbulent Times in which one of the key subjects was Business Process Efficiency. I based most of that session around the opportunities that are available from taking advantage of the digital and internet age we live in, and new tools that give us the ability to map and run live business process simulations in order to find new models of process efficiency.

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Posted by Andy Hamilton on Thursday, March 01, 2012

NZ Technology Trade Mission to India

During February, I was lucky enough to travel to India on a trade mission with NZTE and a bunch of cool technology companies to participate in the Nasscom Leadership Forum, which is a major technology conference with a couple thousand executives. The companies on the Mission included: Medtech Global  OmniMax Orion Health Pingar Vista Entertainment  Simtics Xlerate NZICT Below are some reflectons I got from the visit, but first what our objectives were. By going on the Trade Mission, we were interested in Market Understanding – I personally had never been before, and we have a 5 year strategy of growing our knowledge and networks in Asia including India Networks – develop networks to assist ICEHOUSE and Kiwi companies that are looking to enter the…

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