Category Archives: New Zealand

August 23, 2011 Posted in National Institute of Standards and Technology, New Zealand 1 Comment

On Definitions – Keeping it Simple with OSSM

By Ben Kepes
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July 1, 2010 Posted in Business and the Environment, Cleantech, New Zealand, Waipara 6 Comments

Did I Mention That I Hate NIMBYs?

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about the proposal of a local company to build a windfarm in the hills near where I live. An article in The Press newspaper this morning made my blood boil and made me happy that I penned an opinion piece for a soon-to-be-published edition of a newspaper.

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June 23, 2010 Posted in New Zealand Leave a comment

How Not to Do Customer Surveys, a BNZ Fail

By Ben Kepes

God give me strength… So yesterday I got a call from our business banker asking what would make my life with BNZ Internet Banking easier. “Well”, I said, “that’s easy. Don’t make me use three separate logins to access the 10 or so bank accounts that I have access to.

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January 20, 2010 Posted in Business and the Environment, New Zealand 4 Comments

Department of Conservation and Scams, A Micro-Rant

By Ben Kepes

Traditionally I use my summer road trip to find new tourism travesties to rant about – this year of course is no different. Recently we visited Tane Mahuta, the largest known Kauri tree remaining alive in the world. Tane Mahuta is situated in Waipoua forest, an incredible example of old

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January 13, 2010 Posted in New Zealand Leave a comment

Political Expediency and the Disposable Truth

By Ben Kepes

On our recent road trip we made  pilgrimage to Matauri Bay. Maturi Bay, for those who don’t know, is an almost impossible beautiful bay on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand and is also the last resting site of the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace protest vessel

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December 11, 2009 Posted in Business and the Environment, Compliance, Economic Development, Efficiency, New Zealand 22 Comments

Lobby Groups, Vested Interests and Short Sightedness

By Ben Kepes

(Warning – off topic, but still important) Despite statements to the opposite, New Zealand is a country that gains significant wealth from agriculture and horticulture. That we do so, such a long distance from our main markets, is in part testament to the fact that we’re blessed with significant rain

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November 23, 2009 Posted in Business and the Environment, Economic Development, Efficiency, New Zealand 1 Comment

Commoditization… and the Tragedy of the Commons….

By Ben Kepes

My good friend Ruth has started blogging and, in what can only be likened to a “butterfly from the chrysalis” moment, we get to see the thoughts her previous employment have rendered her unlikely to utter. Her latest post looks broadly at the Emissions Trading Scheme and questions the strategy

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October 12, 2009 Posted in Business, New Zealand, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy, Strategy, General, The Cloud 5 Comments

Canterbury Cloud Camp Unconference

By Ben Kepes

At the recent Auckland CloudCamp, a few of us got talking and thinking about what a tight network of SaaS/Cloud businesses could achieve – kind of a “united we stand, divided we fall” approach. Down here in Canterbury we have a surprising number of players in this field – all

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September 14, 2009 Posted in Business, My businesses, New Zealand, Strategy 10 Comments

Why Banking is Broken, A BNZ Rant (Part two)

By Ben Kepes

I posted last week about a banking situation that had me all hot under the collar. In an effort to continue naming and shaming (and hopefully drive improvements in the process), here is part two. This morning I received a check from a US client. The client in question is

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September 7, 2009 Posted in Business, IT, My businesses, New Zealand 3 Comments

Time for a the BNZ Rant, They Don’t Get It….

By Ben Kepes

My fellow blogger Lance Wiggs tends to be a bit of a curmudgeon when it comes to banks in new Zealand, in light of the fact that he’s sitting somewhere in the middle of Africa, I figured I’d take up the baton. I’ve banked with the Bank of New Zealand

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