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ASB and Spark join us to share their insights on improving productivity through innovation, collaboration, upskilling, and the use of digital technologies
Aotearoa New Zealand’s productivity challenge is well documented. New Zealanders generate significantly less output than many other developed countries, despite working longer and harder.
Join us for a discussion from two of New Zealand’s largest companies ASB and Spark NZ who have been looking into the productivity paradox and the role they can respectively play, as a bank and digital services provider, to support productivity growth.
ASB’s Nick Tuffley, Chief Economist, will speak to the role of business in leading the charge in improving productivity through innovation, collaboration and upskilling people’s knowledge and capability.
While Laurence Chapman, General Manager of Spark Group Sales - Southern Region, from Spark NZ, will explore the significant opportunity of increasing productivity through an uplift in the use of advanced digital technologies.
Completing the line-up, local director Murray Sherwin, will share what steps his board has taken to enable productivity, including leveraging innovative technological solutions.
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Following the candid fireside chat session there will be an opportunity for Q&As.
This event is brought to you in partnership with IoD national partner ASB.
Nick Tuffley was appointed as ASB’s Chief Economist in January 2007, having previously worked at Westpac and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Nick studied at Canterbury University, graduating with a Master of Commerce in Economics.
He and the rest of the Economics team provide regular analysis of economic developments and the outlook through written publications and media comments. Their key objective is to help the bank’s clients make better-informed business and personal finance decisions. The Economics team has won 3 Consensus Economics Forecast Accuracy Awards for their NZ forecasts.
Nick speaks at a variety of functions large and small from gatherings of corporate customers, through industry conferences, to large cocktail functions for customers. He has spoken in shearing sheds, wineries, art galleries, the Air Force museum, and ambulance stations. And of course, in recent years he has spent a lot of time Zooming into people’s screens.
Laurence Chapman is the General Manager of Spark Group Sales for Wellington and the South Island. Laurence is an experienced sales and leadership professional, with over 30 years’ experience working with Government and Enterprise helping them achieve their business objectives.
Laurence is a strategic thinker, a planner and a creative problem solver who builds strong and successful teams.
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Murray is an economist with over 40 years’ experience in a wide range of public policy and other roles, both in here and abroad. He is a graduate of Waikato University (MSocSci Hons) and The Executive Program of the Darden School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.
His professional history includes appointments with the OECD, the Prime Minister’s Policy Advisory Group, membership of the World Bank Board of Executive Directors, Deputy Governor and Deputy Chair of the Board of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Director General and CEO of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Chair of the New Zealand Productivity Commission and Chair of the Innovation Partnership, a Google-initiated collaboration which explored opportunities for smart application of internet technology in NZ.
Murray’s current roles include Chair of the Plant Germplasm Import Council (a collaboration between MPI’s Biosecurity NZ group and the industries engaged in imports of plant germplasm), membership of the Thought Leaders Group supporting Te Puna Whakaaronui (an internal MPI policy group exploring emerging technologies and their potential impact and opportunities in our food and fibre industries), and member of the Advisory Board of Iron Duke Partners.
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Guy is General Manager, Governance Leadership Centre of the Institute of Directors. He is an experienced senior leader who has worked with public, private and not-for-profit entities in New Zealand, Fiji, Mongolia, Australia and the United States.
His previous senior roles include Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy and Organisation Performance at Te Puni Kōkiri; Deputy Secretary Natural Resources Policy at Ministry for the Environment.
Most recently, he ran his own freelance consultancy practice supporting public sector senior executives and their teams to deliver high quality decision-making, advice and policy implementation. In each of these roles, he engaged on a range of natural resource, environmental and other issues with iwi/hapū and other Māori interests.
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Jill Dawson
Wellington Branch Manager
+64 27 278 8814
+64 4 470 2673
jill.dawson@iod.org.nz
The Wellington branch acknowledges the generous support of
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The East Coast region also thank
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The Manawatu region also thank
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Members — $50.00
Non-members — $100.00
