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Wendys serves up faster sales figures

Wendys serves up faster sales figures

'It was a very powerful demonstration. We had all of our management team in... and straight away they saw the potential of this tool.' James Irvine, Wendy’s financial controller

Salvation Army hits new Notes

"We've never looked back - now I don't understand why everyone doesn't have Lotus Notes.", Mark Bennett, Salvation Army information systems group manager

Salvation Army hits new Notes

CPIT does its ICT homework

“This isn’t in any way about ICT leading the business into ICT solutions. This is about understanding and getting people to think about what the business needs and us enabling it.” - Mark Marshall, Director, ICT Division , CPIT

CPIT does its ICT homework

More for less at Noel Leeming

"It was a very, very successful rollout — we never really faltered." Noel Leeming Group CFO Mark Conelly

More for less at Noel Leeming

Articles

How to identify ways to make the most of the cloud

How to identify ways to make the most of the cloud

Some experts are calling cloud computing a paradigm shift in technology.

Green IT is about more than IT

Greening the IT function is only one aspect of Green IT explains Graeme Philipson. It is important to minimise IT’s power consumption, but the real advantages come with IT’s ability to help reduce the carbon footprint of the whole organisation.

Green IT is about more than IT

Research

Innovation Index of New Zealand

Innovation Index of New Zealand

Joint research from IBM and the University of Auckland

New research reveals that the rate of innovation in New Zealand has been stagnant for almost a decade - which has to be a worry for a nation seeking a step-change improvement in economic growth.

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profiling Ross Pearce

Ross Pearce

Senior Managing Consultant

Ross has 20 years consulting experience covering Change and Transformation Management, Programme & Project Management, Process Re-engineering, Performance Management, Leadership Development, Human Resource Management and Organisation Design.

He is currently designated as the Strategy & Change and Human Capital Management Consulting Lead for New Zealand, and is a member of the Global Leadership team for the IBM Organisation Design Community of Practice.

Ross Pearce