Northern Focus
Creating a generation of entrepreneurs
Thursday, 11 March 2010
We hear a lot about the importance of innovation, creativity and good old fashioned business sense. But how do we develop these vital skills and how do we ensure the next generation will follow suit?
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Expertise to help your business
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
What does 2010 hold for your business? After the turbulence of the past 18 months it is time to embrace all opportunities as the economy strengthens.
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Effective succession requires planning
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Last month we looked at how to initiate taking a step away from your business and formulating a succession plan. But what do you do next? And how successful will it be?
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Who will fill your business shoes?
Friday, 04 December 2009
After years of growing and nurturing your business – what will happen when you retire, take a long term break or take more of a back seat?
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Eye on the ball
Friday, 06 November 2009
It’s still two years until kick off for the biggest sporting event held in this country in several years, Rugby World Cup 2011 (RWC), but don’t get complacent!
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Improving wealth
Friday, 02 October 2009
Increasing your productivity is the prime way to improve your wealth and prosperity and this applies to all types of enterprise.
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Learning to sweet talk your bank
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Are you in need of a business loan but are struggling to secure it? Do you battle to understand what banks want from your business? You are not alone!
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Tomorrow's entrepreneurs to represent New Zealand
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
They may be still young and students, but they possess the drive, passion and desire to excel and change the world around them for better.
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Ten questions in ten minutes
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Denise Hosty, founder of The Costume Studio Ltd, has been making costumes for 23 years, and in that time there is not much she hasn’t made, from pirates to potatoes, popsicles to penguins.
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R&D - Vital to survival
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Are you thinking of cutting back or delaying innovation and research and design activities in your business? Think again – very hard.
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Winning the gold for green
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Sovereign House at Smales Farm Office Park in Auckland reigned supreme in the Green Building Award category winning Excellence – the top honour – at the recent 2009 Property Council Awards.
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Sometimes even the best get it wrong
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
We kiwis are a trusting lot – we take things at face value and tend to assume the best rather than the worst. And even newspapers can get caught out sometimes.
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Digital age mapping
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
In this digital age, it may come as a surprise that a company as obviously cutting-edge and high-tech’ as Geosmart actually started life in 1978.
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Golf success
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
An Auckland company has developed a unique, and highly-effective, golf practice and fitness facility – and is now taking the concept to the world with success already in China.
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Hidden costs of staff cutting
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
A leading local accountant Butch Mawdsley has advised North Shore business owners that staff cutting can be detrimental to the business. Instead, strong leadership is the key to helping your business survive the recession.
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Challenging enterprising minds
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
We’ve all heard of ‘food for thought’, but recently some young, creative minds from around New Zealand accepted a challenge and ‘thought for food’.
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Mentors race at meteoric pace
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Mentors were certainly in the mood for motoring recently at the Enterprise North Shore Mentor Appreciation Evening held at North Harbour Stadium.
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The business octopus: why and how to be one
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
The economic and business landscape is changing – fast. In response, you need to face the following six types of challenges simultaneously and then devise and implement initiatives to overcome them.
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Using downtime profitably
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
When I was first working for myself (an option that seemed the best way of surviving the tough employment conditions of the 1980s), the notion anyone might be interested in the experiences of people like me would have seemed absurd.
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Amphibious solution
Friday, 19 June 2009
Photographs of the Sealegs vessel, either crossing Cook Strait or driving up a beach on Whangaparaoa have become familiar to many of us in recent years.
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Economic future looks optimistic
Friday, 19 June 2009
Committed optimists were recently rewarded with good news surrounding North Shore City’s economic future at the Enterprise North Shore Economic Summit 2009.
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Ten questions in ten minutes
Friday, 19 June 2009
Jonathan Davison is Managing Director of North Shore based Interview Skills, a company supplying training in the field of interviews and conversation management.
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Merely a 'blip'
Friday, 19 June 2009
Blip? Glitch? Dip? Whatever you choose to call it, the economic conditions we’re experiencing are just that: a swell in the oscillating economic wave.
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YES students' ingenuity wows
Friday, 19 June 2009
Ever wondered how your business can get ‘up close and personal’ with your customers? Clean Ads, winners of the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme Oral Presentation Regional finals, last month, have just the ticket for businesses to, literally, reach out and touch their potential customers.
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Come together in symphonia
Friday, 19 June 2009
“The word symphony is a combination of ‘sym’ - together, and ‘phonae’ -to sound – the sounding together of all the voices.” The composer Ben Zanders spoke to President Mandela a few years back, telling him that he was the first leader of Symphonia and used the above breakdown to explain why he thought that.
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