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Tech hubs disrupt Auckland’s property market
Report notes rising demand for real estate that blurs the lines between traditional workplaces, public space and the urban environment.
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Frost & Sullivan on Brexit: Navigating the uncertainty ahead
What can companies do to mitigate the impact?
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Three easy ways to get better at the hard stuff
The old adage that "the soft stuff is the hard stuff" certainly applies to CIOs. Consider the many new ways we work together today as companies adopt global shared services, enterprisewide architectures and systems, and entirely new business models that arrive in mergers and acquisitions or outsourcing arrangements. All this requires finely honed skills in transformation and transition.
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NetGen entrepreneurs need to fail in order to succeed
The NZ-Australia Investment Forum this month was told there is a new breed of entrepreneurs that is not well understood and not well served but whose contribution to the economy could be tremendous.
Net Generation entrepreneurs grew up with the internet. They are mostly young, possibly still in colleges or universities, or fresh graduates starting careers.
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Kicking the stool out from under the cybercrime economy
Put simply, cybercrime, especially financial malware, has the potential to be quite the lucrative affair. That's only because the bad guys have the tools to make their work quick and easy, though. Cripple the automated processes presented by certain malware platforms, and suddenly the threats -- and the losses --aren't quite so serious.