{"id":515,"date":"2017-09-30T02:01:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T02:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=515"},"modified":"2018-05-30T18:53:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T18:53:58","slug":"a-major-competitive-advantage-sitting-in-front-of-kiwi-businesses-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/a-major-competitive-advantage-sitting-in-front-of-kiwi-businesses-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"A Major (Global) Competitive Advantage Sitting in Front of Kiwi Businesses Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting phenomenon is increasingly showing itself in the tertiary student classes that I teach at the Eastern Institute of Technology – it’s called “collaboration<\/strong><\/span>“. For the ‘Operations Management’ class that I teach in conjunction with my colleague who is based in Gisborne, students have just been given their major assignment for the current semester.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response, unprompted and unsolicited, a student in this class decided to help her student colleagues by coming forward to share a particular website which she had found useful in understanding how to perform correct APA referencing – which is a fundamental requirement of tertiary students when preparing assignments\/ reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

The level of student contributions to class discussions is increasing steadily as the semester rolls-on also. And more than that, students are learning how to constructively challenge the views of their fellow students and\/ or add to what another student has spoken about without causing conflict. Yes, clear signs of collaboration are showing themselves more and more now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As I shared with my learned Gisborne colleague last week after the aforementioned student had stepped forward with her thoughtful offer of a useful website for her student colleagues to consider using, I believe that the New Zealand business community as a whole has a prime opportunity<\/strong> to carve-out a massive comparative advantage on the global stage <\/span><\/strong>by concentrating more on developing collaborative<\/span><\/strong> business models (e.g. joint ventures, merged entities, SME scale businesses operating under a parent company brand, etc) versus continuing to persevere with around 90 % of N.Z.’s businesses being Small-Medium Enterprise (SME) scale businesses – many of which may prove to be unsustainable and unfortunately ultimately become unviable (particularly if historic N.Z. business failure rate statistics are any sort of indicator of likely future trends).<\/span><\/p>\n

So my underlying message to Kiwi business owners is…<\/span><\/span>Collaborate<\/span><\/strong> in order to strengthen the skills base per organisation…to improve affordability of inputs (including Research & Development)…to increase\/ improve productivity, innovation and volume of output…to increase revenue…to increase market share…to increase scale…to enable entry into other countries…to enable further employment opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n

All that it takes fundamentally is the “willingness<\/span><\/strong>” to become more “collaborative” and “cooperative” as a mindset and way of life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting phenomenon is increasingly showing itself in the tertiary student classes that I teach at the Eastern Institute of Technology – it’s called “collaboration“. For the ‘Operations Management’ class that I teach in conjunction with my colleague who is based in Gisborne, students have just been given their major assignment for the current semester. In response, unprompted and unsolicited, a student in this class decided to help her student colleagues by coming forward to share a particular website which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}