December 5, 2011
Goal-setting for businesses is not easy at the moment. You just have to look at the business confidence surveys. It’s no wonder many businesses are still procrastinating about setting their 2012 goals.
October 12, 2011
What business owner in his or her right mind doesn’t want to restrict competition? Especially if it’s coming from a trusted employee or the person who sold you the business!
July 26, 2011
Making your business sale ready is all about creating opportunity. Opportunity attracts investors and the greater the perception of opportunity the higher the level of interest. Maximising your business’s intangible assets is the best way to...
April 28, 2011
A business which is ‘ready to sell’ is also great to keep. Making your business ‘sale ready’ gives you back the freedom you went into business to achieve.
December 7, 2010
Over the past couple of years, many business owners will have become more focussed on business survival than business growth. However it appears that the New Year holds the promise of a more supportive environment for business growth.
October 18, 2010
How many business owners realise that uncontrolled use of social media by their staff could put their client database at risk?
July 7, 2010
The Government is coming under pressure to backtrack on a proposed IP policy change which could threaten the interests of some powerful multinational software companies.
June 21, 2010
While the economic indicators for New Zealand are becoming more positive, and many large companies increasingly upbeat, plenty of small to medium-sized businesses are still being lashed by the tail of the recession.
May 7, 2010
Notwithstanding forceful submissions from business leaders, there still remains a real risk of businesses losing their Internet connections as a result of unauthorised peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing of copyright material by employees.
May 3, 2010
New Zealand is involved in negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a plurilateral trade agreement intended to “more effectively combat the increasingly prolific trade in counterfeit and pirated goods, through better...
October 2, 2009
It seems ironic that as the government rolls out ultra-fast broadband for businesses, its proposed redraft of S.92A of the Copyright Act 1994 still contains the threat of termination of businesses’ internet accounts.
August 12, 2009
The Government is moving to close loopholes in the No-Asset-Procedure (“NAP”) established under the Insolvency Act 2006, and make the period NAP debtors remain on the public register comparable to that for bankruptcy.
June 19, 2009
Legitimate New Zealand businesses trading internationally should see long-term benefits when the Trade Marks (International Treaties and Enforcement) Bill becomes law, but counterfeiters certainly will not.
April 7, 2009
Although the government has decided that the controversial Section 92A of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 is to be rewritten, businesses should not relax about their internet risks just yet.
February 17, 2009
Is the Government producing the right policies to help SMEs get through the current economic meltdown? Prior to the much-hyped Small Business Relief package released by John Key on 4 February, legislation affecting SMEs was pushed through under the...
