Monthly Archives: May 2009

May 14, 2009 Posted in Business, Design, Manufacturing, My businesses Leave a comment

The Consumerisation of Design, the Death of Fitness for Purpose

By Ben Kepes

On my way to the United States, US Airways unfortunately misplaced my bag. Faced with the prospect of a week without my stuff i made a quick assessment of what I really couldn’t do without. Top of the list 9after a NZ/US power adaptor) was my gym gear. I trundled

Tagged Design, nike, niketown |

May 12, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, SaaS Leave a comment

SmartPayroll Gets on the Service Theme

By Ben Kepes

I don’t blog often over here on Diversity any more – CloudAve takes much of my attention these days. Diversity is more about an opportunity for me to be opinionated or to tell stories of Kiwi success stories – I try and do that over on CloudAve too but for

Tagged smartpayroll, smartxero, Xero |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.