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Can tech help us self-motivate? These five evidence-based apps suggest yes.
Use these evidence-based hacks if you're at a loss for what's coming next.
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Can tech help us self-motivate? These five evidence-based apps suggest yes.
Use these evidence-based hacks if you're at a loss for what's coming next.
Biz Apps
Eight quickfire ways gamification’s being used with impact.
Gamify your operations to instantly convert, or let your audience come to you? The new issues of digital transformation on the business agenda.
Microsoft 365
Why reinvent the wheel? Low and no-code approaches and the rise of citizen developers
The urgency to speed up application development and a software development skills-shortage is fueling the rise of low and no-code platforms. New Zealand companies are taking notice.
CRM & ERP
The virtual scout hall powered by Salesforce
Adopting Salesforce during the pandemic, SCOUTS New Zealand was able to take scout meetings virtual for thousands of young people and volunteers and lay the groundwork for a data-driven approach to scouting.
CRM & ERP
Five ways to rock working-from-home, and some tools to help
Here we are again: locked down and restricted with travel and social time - but we need not let our mental health and work-life be sacrificed... Tune in to these pointers on how to be productive and healthy while WFH.
Biz Apps
Forecast: Cloudy with a high chance of growth
The past decade has seen encompassing growth in cloud computing - both at consumer and enterprise levels.
CRM & ERP
SAP explained: ‘Speed up data-intensive process’
– What does SAP/S4HANA really mean for Enterprise Resource Planning? To get a clear picture, I spoke with one of Australasia’s Microsoft SAP partners, Realtech.
CRM & ERP
The case of business automation
Replacing manual systems frees up resource for greater innovation, but it’s also important for business transparency.
Biz Apps
This high-tech sign language glove could speak to your smartphone.
A new innovation from UCLA can translate sign language with 99-percent accuracy.
Biz Apps
Building a truly AI-powered organisation
Organisations need to get the right culture in place to best take advantage of artificial intelligence, says a senior Microsoft executive.
Biz Apps
SPACETIME, entrepreneurship and technology – a chat with Alex Bartley Catt
Alex Bartley Catt and Dave Howden speaking on customer experiences, the cloud, and obstacles and opportunities of starting up in New Zealand.
Biz Apps
Expanded money-making tools for Facebook and Instagram creators
Facebook is diversifying people's options for making money on social networks, the company blogged on Monday. Virtual live events are the current big focus - with people using Facebook tools to design, create, promote and host to their audiences.
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Meet Aroha: A chatbot to help young New Zealanders cope with stress.
The Aroha chatbot was designed to help young New Zealanders during COVID-19. It’s part of the growing HABITs ecosystem of digital self-help tools.
Microsoft 365
Windows apps coming to Chromebooks
A plan to make native Windows apps available on Google Chromebook for the first time could be a game-changer, says one IT provider to the education sector who is seeing growing demand for the entry-level laptops.
Microsoft 365
Efficiency, accountability and trust: Connecting a remote workforce over Teams
Covid-19 was a wake-up call for premium meat supplier First Light, but its business was quickly propelled forward using tech that – they discovered – had been with them all along.
Biz Apps
Barriers to digital transformation remain, say global IT and business professionals
Spending on digital transformation is fast expanding but businesses are still being obstructed by outdated technology tools and knowledge.
Biz Apps
Defusing the ‘tech-clash’: Time to focus on the humans
Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics are increasingly helping businesses cut costs, launch new services and move up the value chain in a number of industries.
Microsoft 365
Wearables for social distancing – what will it look like, who will use them?
In many countries, staying apart from one another remains critical to counter the current pandemic.
Microsoft 365
How this cloud-based tech solution is helping protect Kiwi businesses from money laundering.
Think money-laundering doesn’t affect New Zealand? Jenine Colmore-Williams asks you to think again, and has developed software to help keep the crims at bay.
Biz Apps
Digital identity in health – NZHIT networking event
We firmly believe in the value of cloud technology to enable the New Zealand digital health sector in meeting the demanding economic imperative to cut costs and improve the quality of patient care. To deliver this value Umbrellar work collaboratively across the health sector to ensure members are best informed of the latest ICT trends to stay ahead of the curve.
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Good governance will help tech firms get to the “productivity frontier”
Why are some Kiwi businesses globally productive and successful, and others not? If you are a tech company business leader structured governance is key to accelerating growth and performance, says Institute of Directors Chief Executive Kirsten Patterson. She says good governance will help drive organisations toward a sustainable future and be the roadmap of the “productivity frontier”.
CRM & ERP
The Digital Council’s advice to the New Zealand Government about building an empowered digital economy, post pandemic.
Yesterday, the Digital Council, the Government's digital advisory group, released its statement of recommendations post-COVID-19 recovery. I spoke to Mitchell Pham, Council Chair, just after the release, for more detail.
Biz Apps
5 great Kiwi apps to come out of Covid-19
Kiwis have been innovating in the face of the pandemic and there’s been an influx of new apps ‒ but not all of them are worth your time. I’ve picked some of my favourites, available on both Android and iPhone, including ones that will hopefully stick around long after the pandemic.
Biz Apps
Soul Machines and the future of AI
Paul speaks with Greg Cross, Chief Executive at Soul Machines - and winner of NZ Hi-Tech Flying Kiwi award 2019 - on digital humans, artificial Intelligence, and boosting NZ innovation.
CRM & ERP
Gisborne District Council’s new intranet improves communication with Office 365 and Information Leadership
Gisborne District Council (GDC) is a local government authority based in the North Island of New Zealand. Information Leadership partnered with GDC to deliver an intranet on their existing Office 365 platform. This sets them up to take advantage of the Office 365 toolset and incorporate cloud technology enhancements as required. The purpose of the project was to improve communication and bring staff together.
Biz Apps
Social distance the new business norm as Covid-19 response reaches Alert Level 4
New Zealand’s small businesses are likely to be considering their next steps for business continuity as the nation readies itself for a month’s formal lockdown, starting 00:00 tonight.
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Facebook introduces live gaming app
The ‘live gameplay’ sector is surging – and the world’s largest social media platform is riding the wave with its own app designed for creating and watching gameplay, activated on Monday.
CRM & ERP
A healthcare strategist on the industry’s shifting dial
“The virus and it’s spread has been described by futurists as being hyper-global and hyper-local at the same time."
Biz Apps
Chapman steps up as CEO of Knoware, NZ’s largest SAS consultancy
Close to 20 years since its formation, co-founder and former managing director, Clare Somerville, is departing from her leadership of New Zealand's largest analytics software company. Cam Chapman is stepping up from GM into CEO role.
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New Zealand’s annual AgriTech Hackathon went virtual. Here’s what’s coming.
Pivoting during a global pandemic doesn’t exactly sound simple, but the annual AgTech Hackathon has managed to do with style, this year going under a new name: AgTech Hackathon Lite.
