Boardroom magazine - Spring 2024

Boards need to understand an organisation’s capability and maturity to deliver technology programmes. 

The chair needs to harmonise personalities and communication styles, so the sum of the whole is greater than its parts.

Professional marketers are a crucial, and often missing, component in board decision-making.

In small to medium-sized entities, directors add value by testing assumptions and not being encumbered by limitations.

Comparing the complexities of governance in the private and public sectors.

Start with the right mindset – health and safety is an outcome of work – then establish best practice. 

Health and safety does not make it onto the accountant’s radar. 

Evaluating large volumes of data using technology is a major differentiator in effective oversight and governance.

When a board pushes a vision or ambition, the organisation becomes inspired. 

Maxine Simmons CMInstD says being open to different ideas is the source of innovation and good decision-making.

An advisory board challenges family garlic growers to ‘look at things from a different perspective’.

Oliver Bruce MInstD sees a golden opportunity for New Zealand to develop and export technologies that reduce emissions worldwide.

Monique Forbes CMInstD, the first Future Director on the IoD Board, finds her zone – being her best version and making an impact. 

In making room for diversity, boards must look in the mirror, no matter how confronting that might be, says Barb Long MInstD.

From mentee to mentor, Melanie Templeton MInstD cuts to the chase over the demands of being a director.

Don Mann MInstD, CEO of multimedia entity Pacific Media Network, is drawn to change and disruption.  

The proposed reform of company law in New Zealand should be advanced promptly to modernise the 31-year-old Act.

Identifying, quantifying and treating cyber risk can be a complicated undertaking.

From ‘seeking the truth’ to ‘I’ve been thinking’, there are ways to improve performance.

Shocked by the data, a charitable trust is trying to find ways for rural communities to access healthcare.