NZ iPhone plan comparison It’s sad – but this great idea – a collaborative iPhone pricing spreadsheet for New Zealand – has completely failed. It’s a mess, there are people deleting things and Telco or device religion rather than science seems to be driving behaviour. I don’t care how much Vodafone’s rates are – their …
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Tuesday Three: 3 ways to improve your business
Think like you think for yourself Switch to Gmail Get a ‘best friends’ telephone deal for your work. Don’t use a business deal if the personal ones are better Get rid of almost all of your printers – and make the ones you have harder to get to, and track printing by person/cost center. It’s …
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Why I don’t read Public Address
Via Not PC I see that there is a top NZ political blog ranking system. That’s interesting. Well not really – but I do like to read a range of views, and follow No Right Turn (#6, blogspot), Kiwiblog (#1), not PC (a rabble rousing #3 – also on blogspot) and The Visible Hand in …
What’s wrong with Telco pricing and how to fix it
Via the tidbits newsgroup an Aussie (amacbell) succinctly points out the problem with Telco pricing: I know of no other industry where you need to prepurchase on the basis of a best guestimate of the volume of units required for the month ahead. If you guess wrong and don’t use all the units you bought …
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Fixing the Berl report – some progress made
Some good progress on the saga of the Berl report on Costs of Harmful Alcohol and Other Drug Use. Berl have posted a response to criticism, including a letter of apology from Treasury. They note that the request for tender stated “You shall complete a cost analysis using an accepted framework and deliver a report …
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Tuesday Three: 3 ways to improve your business
Drinks are on the house, but only when in the house Buy staff beer and wine for Friday afternoons – but don’t put credit cards down at bars Cash in staff carparks – give them 50% share of the savings and encourage them to walk, use public transport, cycle or motorcycle Get everyone using IM …
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Fix the Berl report on alcohol and drugs
The Costs of Harmful Alcohol and Other Drug Use report commissioned by the Ministry of Health and ACC has been the subject of some controversy. It was written by five authors from Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL), and they got support from a range of people, including 9 people from ACC or Ministry of …
Tuesday Three: 3 ways to improve your business
Spend like you spend, not like a corporate Stop buying refundable air fares – get the cheapest ones for 1/4 the price and throw them away when unused. It ends up being much cheaper Set your printers to print default black and white, double sided. Open up the internet – get rid of the expensive …
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So you’ve got a good idea – now what?
I’ve been getting an increasing number of ideas over the transom over the last few weeks. It started before the radio interview last week, accelerated because of that, and tomorrow it seems I’m in the latest issue of Idealog. It’s really good to receive them, and I enjoy helping out and even starting some businesses. …
Better culture, better people, better economy
It’s the most commented article on The Economist right now, and it’s a fractious topic. Indian students have recently taken to the streets in protest against some of the worst ethnic-based attacks Australia has seen The violence sprang to public notice when two Indian men were attacked with screwdrivers in Melbourne last month. One was …
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Snow job in Greenland
Whitewash “A West Coast man has lost his feet and a hand to frostbite after surviving three days in an Arctic whiteout.” Let’s look at the facts here. He had No EPIRB to locate him if all failed No Food No GPS Not enough fuel No tent No other survivial gear Karamea’s Joseph Gibbons is …
Tuesday Three: 3 ways to improve your business
<I pulled this post after posting as I wanted to expand it, but it was already commented on externally – so here it is again.> Get out there Use OpenOffice.org as the default office application. Give Microsoft Office only to those that really need extra bells, whistles and TLC. Meet your customers every day – …
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Radio NZ interview – How to survive and prosper this recession
I’m just back from an entertaining interview with Kathryn Ryan on the Nine to Noon program. You can listen to it at Radio NZ: How Businesses Can Survive The Recession (and more) Links to some things we talked about: Social Innovation Camp NZ SICampNZ site Great article by Idealog Electricity microgeneration Refit educating New Zealanders …
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5 Recent posts that I like – and a new page
I’ll be on Kathryn Ryan’s Nine to Noon program on Radio NZ at about 9:20am Monday 22nd. There are a few potential topics to cover – including why NZ is a good place to be right now, what businesses can do to manage through the recession and the Social Innovation camp next steps. We’ll see …
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Bribes, jobs and wine – not a good mix
There are two jobs sites in NZ with critical mass – Seek and Trade Me Jobs. It’s a tough road to get to the top, and when Seek and Trade Me themselves have lost thousands of listings it’s even tougher to make things pay. During these recession days employers are realising that they don’t need …
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