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Design-thinking to help grow businesses
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When Clare Swallow started thinking like a truck driver, she knew she was on to something.
A proponent of human-centred design thinking, Clare says when a client said to her: “It’s like you were in the head of that truck driver at that moment”, she understood just how powerful design thinking could be.
The University of Waikato alumna, who in 2015 was named as one of New Zealand’s most digitally savvy women, will deliver a paper on design thinking through the University of Waikato’s MBA course this year called ....
Business digest: Best New Zealand Non-Bank of the Year awarded 7 Mar, 2021 09:00 PM 11 minutes to read Bay of Plenty Times New Zealand-owned First Mortgage Trust is celebrating its 25 year anniversary with the announcement it has been judged the best New Zealand Non-Bank of the Year. This award comes on the back of last year s achievement, when the trust reported it had more than $1 billion of investor funds under management, a figure which firmly cemented it as the largest non-bank first mortgage provider in New Zealand. Chief executive officer Tony Kinzett said he was delighted with the February announcement from NZ Advisor, giving particular credit for the award to his hard-working team who are based in offices across the country. ....
Business digest: Best New Zealand Non-Bank of the Year awarded 7 Mar, 2021 09:00 PM 11 minutes to read Bay of Plenty Times New Zealand-owned First Mortgage Trust is celebrating its 25 year anniversary with the announcement it has been judged the best New Zealand Non-Bank of the Year. This award comes on the back of last year s achievement, when the trust reported it had more than $1 billion of investor funds under management, a figure which firmly cemented it as the largest non-bank first mortgage provider in New Zealand. Chief executive officer Tony Kinzett said he was delighted with the February announcement from NZ Advisor, giving particular credit for the award to his hard-working team who are based in offices across the country. ....
Business digest: New partnership to develop platform for agritech research 14 Feb, 2021 07:00 PM 13 minutes to read Got business news? Email [email protected] Photo / Getty Images Bay of Plenty Times A freshly inked scientific partnership is developing AI computing power and technology to meet demand from Bay of Plenty-based scientists for faster processing of complex research data. The initiative, a marriage between the needs of PlantTech Research Institute in Tauranga and the expertise of New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), is accelerating innovative research, starting in the agritech sector. It will remove computer processing bottlenecks that limit the ability for data scientists to train artificial intelligence (AI) models that learn from high volumes of complex and tightly coupled data. It will also dramatically reduce the turnaround times for AI research. ....
Speaker Series celebrates business women Siouxsie Wiles. Supplied photos. What do a fashion designer, microbiologist and eco-conscious beauty product pioneer all have in common? They are Kiwi business women at the forefront of change – and the key note speakers at a brand new event happening in Tauranga. Hosted by Business Women’s Network, in partnership with Cooney Lees Morgan and Craigs Investment Partners, the inaugural BWN Speaker Series brings together inspirational, influential and innovative women from around New Zealand and the Bay of Plenty to share their insights into the new ways of doing business. BWN is a networking group formed by women, for women, as part of the Tauranga Chamber of Commerce, with a goal to connect local women to exciting and engaging opportunities. ....