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How to Create Commercial Value for Your Business: 10 Focus Areas

We business owners often get so buried in the day to day, that we forget the myriad of essential building blocks required to be kept in check, in order to create, build, ...

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Customer Experiences: The Sustainable Competitive Edge

By Bill Bain on 21/02/19

In the business world everyone is always looking for that extra something – the product or technology that will give them that competitive edge. But no matter what is found, ...

Four Financial Tips to Take On Board in 2019

By Derek Young on 01/01/19

Haven’t quite got your head around the financial numbers in your business? Or sick of a silent room and nodding heads when sharing financial reports with your senior leaders? ...

Prioritise Your Way to Success

By Jann Meehan on 12/10/18

“Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.” - Jeff Olson Prioritising work so ...

Mogul: Building 'Good Business' Through Confidence and Accountability

By The Icehouse on 04/10/18

In 2007, George and Matthew Miller founded Mogul, a full-service, award-winning digital marketing agency based in Hawke’s Bay. Since 2015, they have engaged with Nick Egerton, ...

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How to Transform an "Interesting" Story into a Powerful Strategic Story in Just Two Moves

By Elizabeth Brown on 24/08/18

I’d just received an email from Andy Hamilton, CEO of The Icehouse, asking if I’d take a look at making an already very interesting business-brand Story more powerful. “Do I ...

Transforming a Senior Team to Manage Change

By Bill Bain on 22/08/18

As they say, change is the new norm. Whether you’re having to change your business direction to adjust to advancing markets or you just need to change to improve value ...

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3 Ways to Put the ‘Performance’ into Your Performance Culture

By Dan Thurston on 03/08/18

This is the sixth and final part of a series explaining how agile strategy-making can get you to where you want to go, faster. Click here to read part one: Why having a ...

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How to Involve and Engage Your Staff in Your Business’ Strategic Plans

By Dan Thurston on 31/07/18

This part is part five of a six-part series explaining how agile strategy-making can get you to where you want to go, faster. Click here to read part one: Why having a business ...

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The Importance of Properly Defining Your Business Problems

By Dan Thurston on 25/07/18

This is part four of a six-part series explaining how agile strategy-making can get you to where you want to go, faster. Click here to read part one: Why having a business ...

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