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Introducing The Icehouse… Liz Wotherspoon, Head of Growth

In our regular series, we are profiling key members of The Icehouse team, so our wider network of alumni, current programme and workshop participants, partners and friends get to ...

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Why build a big business framework into an SME?

There’s plenty that big business can learn from SMEs; lean-thinking, quick decision-making and informal processes, but the opposite is also true. Developing a big business ...

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The Art of Keeping Your Employees: Updated

This is a repost of a previous blog from The Icehouse in 2016. As relevant now as it was then, the points raised address today’s challenges around skills and talent shortages, and ...

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Thank you to our retiring Icehouse directors

In late February 2021 we met up to celebrate the work of the three directors who retired from their Icehouse duties in 2020; namely Chris Quin, Tim Williams and Greg Tomlinson. We ...

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The Icehouse Resources - Week of March 1st 2021

We're glad to provide you another instalment of focused Kiwi business articles, Kiwi business stories and podcasts.

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Introducing The Icehouse… Kate de Lautour, Customer Growth Partner

Kate de Lautour is Customer Growth Partner and Operations Manager for The Icehouse in the Hawke’s Bay region, and the subject of our latest team profile.

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What is business resilience?

You’ve probably got a good idea about your personal definition of resilience, and how much of it you have. To many, ‘resilience’ is tenacity, toughness, grit, fortitude – anything ...

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Media Round-up as Auckland moves to Level 3

Here’s a small selection of news reports from the business media on New Zealand’s nationwide Level 2 and Auckland’s Level 3 move. Remember that for the very latest official ...

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The Icehouse Resources - Week of February 15th 2021

We're glad to provide you another instalment of focused Kiwi business articles, Kiwi business stories and podcasts.

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Innovation key to New Zealand's economic future

In response to the request for feedback on the Productivity Commission’s draft report New Zealand firms: reaching for the frontier, The Icehouse has provided its thoughts and ...

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