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Jonathan Cotton
Microsoft dominates Gartner’s BI & Analytics list
MS continues to outperform BI peers with slick product, great iteration and an attractive price point… read more...
MYOB frees the data with AI-powered advisory dashboard
As accountants and bookkeepers wade deeper into advisor territory, MYOB looks to advise the advisors with free data crunching tool… read more...
Space downunder the final frontier
The Southern skies are set to be busy as governments open space for business… read more...
Lather, rinse, repeat: Why design thinking is great for business
Design thinking evangelical says that a human-centred approach is the key to lightning-speed iteration and ultimately wild business success… read more...
Report: ERP implementations grow more popular, expensive and problematic
A new report finds that while ERP implementation numbers have surged since last year, customer expectations around costs, time and the overall human impact are way off… read more...
Reengineering tech: A new approach to IT delivery
Deloitte offers big thinking for beleaguered CIOs looking to influence but feeling the weight of a raft of new responsibilities… read more...
Mac attack: Malware targeting Macintosh computers soars 270 percent
Apple users aren’t looking so smug as almost undetectable malware threats to Macs go through the roof… read more...
CFOs: Your company’s newest data specialist? Or back room bean counter?
It’s supposed to be a heady new high-tech world for CFOs, industry’s most transformed role. So where’s the tech?… read more...
Govt rides success of recent digital-first initiatives – where to next?
With online census success, new digital petitioning and a fresh commitment to open data, some think NZ might just turn out to be a global GovTech leader… read more...
Fonterra debuts new VR training tech
The dairy co-op has developed possibly the hippest risk reduction training in the country: virtual reality H&S… read more...
NZ makes the at-risk ‘Cyber Five’ list
Geographic isolation doesn’t count for much in the cyber stakes – so why are we unconcerned? read more...
Predictable disruption: How to expect the unexpected
Disruption is, by its very nature, unpredictable, right? Well, not so fast. According to Accenture, that ain’t necessarily so… read more...
How not to suck at digital transformation
Why do the best laid digital plans of so many companies go awry? Research company McKinsey offers its two cents… read more...
World FinTech Report: Big or small, collaborate or perish
While fintechs and legacy players battle over customers, they might just be missing the real opportunity: cooperation… read more...
Lift off: New Zealand finally enters the space commercialisation race
Rocket Lab puts payload into orbit… read more...
Introducing your exciting new security headache: IoT
When it comes to the world of IoT, what you don’t know can hurt you… read more...
Data-centric culture and the democratisation of BI
Nebulous though the term may be, the benefits of a ‘data-centric culture’ are manifold. But just how do businesses empower their data-savvy workers?… read more...
Robots are here to manage your money. But should they?
The rise of the roboadvisor is upon us and they’re coming for your assets (or the management thereof at least)… read more...
By the numbers: Cybercrime in 2017
What happened, what’s coming next and what you can do about it… read more...
Don’t panic: Here comes ‘Industry 4.0’
We’re on the cusp of a new technological revolution and we’re woefully unprepared, says Deloitte. But that’s okay… read more...