Business Transformation and Perception One of the biggest lessons for me as a leader was seeing how much credence both individuals and teams placed on their perceptions during periods of business transformation, rightly or wrongly. Managing perception will be a…

How to Build High Performing Teams That Deliver Results High performing teams are an integral part of an effective organisation. Recognising when and how to utilize a team, and more importantly, understanding how to lead and create such teams, is…

On a mission to take on Diversity within the Gaming Industry A #GirlsBehindTheGames campaign has been launched by a games studio in New Zealand, called ‘Runaway Play’. The campaign calls to promote gender parity and diversity within the gaming industry,…

Firstly, what is Business Strategy? We need to start at the beginning and truly understand what Business Strategy is. I have asked myself this many times, and historically, it has been a yearly PowerPoint presentation and a video clip of…

Your Journey to Digital Service Management Starts Here Here at Spark Ventures (in New Zealand), we have taken the “less is more” approach to Digital Service Management (DSM), where we are utilising only the essential parts of a process to…

SaaS Applications Are Changing Business Forever Most people are aware of the consumption of Software as a Service or SaaS Applications on a pay-per-use basis, such as storage (Dropbox), music (Spotify), email (Google), and television (Netflix) and how SaaS Applications…