Boardroom magazine - Summer 2024-2025

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The top 5 issues for directors in 2025

For New Zealand directors and boards, 2025 presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities.

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Top 5 issues: 1. Return on capital

Directors need to be smart with capital in all its forms – financial, human and natural resources.

Getting the strategy right for an upturn

ASB

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Getting the strategy right for an upturn

Boards will need to anticipate where their organisation fits within the economic trend.

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Top 5 issues: 2. Governance reform

Reforms across multiple pieces of legislation mean directors will face increased scrutiny in governance practice, duties and liability.

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How to navigate the reforms

Directors face heightened accountability of strategic oversight and being the guardians of sound governance.

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Top 5 issues: 3. Climate as a competitive edge

Climate-related information and data can help identify opportunities for delivering more value to customer and community needs.

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Climate as a brand hygiene factor

The secret is in delivering real sustainability change and demonstrating this with data and integrity.

Top 5 issues: 4. Quantum leaps ahead

With AI revolutionising companies and organisations, quantum computing will take it to the next level.

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Ready, not reckless: preparing for a quantum world

A director’s mandate: To align technology with the organisation’s mission and long-term goals.

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Top 5 issues: 5. The high-performing chair

The 'first among equals' is defined by their ability to adapt, guide and bring out the best in their boards.

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How to build a winning team

Transformational moves require open and honest relationships between boards, management and stakeholders.

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Bayden Barber: a chair in the glare

Taking over the Ngāti Kahungunu hot seat meant making big decisions, but Bayden Barber CMInstD says he would not change a thing.

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Mind over machine: future-proofing the world

We need to set ethical boundaries today for a future of artificial super intelligence, says Dr Mahsa Mohaghegh (McCauley) MInstD.

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Deputy chair designs AI with a ‘heart’

Child Cancer Foundation’s Dan Te Whenua Walker MInstD designs an AI with a caring, almost nurturing side.

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A board in sync with AI

From sandbox environments to its customer focus, software specialist Catalyst lives and breathes AI, says Sara Brownlie CMInstD.

MARSH

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Weighing the risks of the AI revolution

As emerging technologies appear almost overnight, Jaymin Kim assesses the risks from a mitigation and risk transfer perspective.

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Will AI change your strategy?

Efficiency, creativity, engagement – the real AI revolution will come from the ground up.

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The winning tech-to-human ratio for AI use

To achieve desired outcomes and improve efficiency, Ben Kepes CFInstD suggests an 80-20 model.

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Anna Curzon: tech vet reaching for the clouds

Global tech veteran Anna Curzon MInstD urges businesses to grasp digital opportunities and think long-term

ASB

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How ASB is using AI to beat AI

Systems embedded with AI prove successful in detecting and preventing scams, says ASB chief executive Vittoria Shortt.

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The new vending machine: a treasure trove of AI solutions

Build a centre of excellence to implement and use AI effectively, says Chris Day CMInstD.

From buzzword to boardroom: making AI work for your organisation

Dentons

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From buzzword to boardroom: making AI work for your organisation

Straightforward use cases may not be groundbreaking but can deliver tangible benefits.

How to reap the AI rewards in a secure way

KORDIA

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How to reap the AI rewards in a secure way

Choose an AI tool to suit your business challenge or opportunity, instead of the other way around.

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Harried by the AI hype? choose your moment

Don’t panic, you still have time to catch the wave, says technologist Breccan McLeod-Lundy CMInstD.

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Adrienne von Tunzelmann: a hard act to follow

Adrienne von Tunzelmann DistFInstD is taking great interest in the Companies Act reforms, 31 years after it set her on her journey.

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Future-proofing te reo with data science

An iwi-led AI project in Northland is placing indigenous communities at the forefront of the digital transition.

The new frontier in corporate governance

Diligent

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The new frontier in corporate governance

Directors cannot afford to drop the ball with recent court decisions leaning towards holding them responsible.

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