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Cultural convergence or divergence

A discussion on the need to manage diversity to ensure productivity benefits from a diversified workforce

Tags: national culture, diversity, productivity, convergence, divergence

Developing Cross-Cultural Framework for Public Service Motivation

A useful introduction to the role of national culture in the public sector

Tags: national culture, public service, motivation, PSM

Forte Enterprise Digest December 2011

News, views and ideas to improve business performance

Tags: newsletter, national culture, productivity, immigration, eNZyme3

SSSI Conference presentation November 2011

Presentation to Surveyors & Spatial Scientists Institute Conference Wellington November 2011

Tags: invention, innovation, entrepreneurship, national culture

3 key strategies seminar presentation

Forte Management's seminar introducing the three strategies offering the greatest opportunities for Kiwi businesses - PowerPoint presentation

Tags: innovation, entrepreneurship, national culture, intellectual assets, complete customer experience

3 key strategies seminar flyer

Forte Management's seminar introducing the three strategies offering the greatest opportunities for Kiwi businesses

Tags: intellectual assets, profit, performance, customer experience, people performance management

Forte Enterprise Digest September 2011

Forte Management's September 2011 newsletter featuring articles about the influence of national culture, how immigrants' contribution to their host countries can be optimised, the cost of jerks in the workforce, the performance impact of negative language, Forté Management’s new eNZyme3 Business Performance Supercharger package, a piece about different approaches to economic development and an introduction to the application of design principles.

Tags: newsletter, national culture, productivity, immigration, eNZyme3

Bridging the Innovation Gap

Guest contribution to Unlimited magazine

Tags: innovation, national culture, unlimited, productivity

Forte Management eNZyme3 brochure

Forte Management's eNZyme3 Business Performance Supercharger package

Tags: intellectual assets, profit, performance, customer experience, people performance management

Forte Enterprise Digest July 2011

Forte's complimentary news, views and information

Tags: innovation, management, productivity, people management, newsletter

How Kiwi culture influences creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and just about everything else

Forte's 2011 presentation to the University of Otago Master of Entrepreneurship programme

Tags: innovation, entrepreneurship, national culture, intellectual assets, complete customer experience

Forte Management Six Step Intellectual Asset Management Plan

Forte Management's structured six step plan to help firms identify, record, analyse, manage and develop their intellectual assets

Tags: Intellectual assets, productivity, profit, value

Forte Management Five Point Complete Customer Experience Model

Schematic of Forte Management's model to help design and deliver a complete customer experience

Tags: Customer experience, productivity, value proposition

New Zealand's Productivity Performance

Charts of New Zealand's Productivity Performance - vs other OECD nations and annual increase/decrease

Tags: productivity, innovation, economic development, OECD

Introduction to "3 Mission Critical Strategies to Drive Competitiveness and Profit"

Introduction to Forte's three part programme to help Kiwi businesses optimise their performance without spending a fortune

Tags: productivity, innovation, intellectual assets, customer experience

The Concept of Social Capital

A brief discussion of social capital and its role in New Zealand's productivity and economic development performance

Tags: innovation, productivity, social capital, bonding, bridging

3 "Mission Critical" Strategies - seminar slides

3 strategies to drive competitiveness and profit based on Forte Management's research

Tags: innovation, productivity, seminar, competitiveness

Forte Enterprise Digest May 2011

May edition of Forte Management's complimentary news and views

Tags: innovation, productivity, newsletter, views, competitiveness

3 Mission Critical Strategies Seminar Additional Information

Further information on free seminar

Tags: innovation, productivity, seminar, competitiveness

3 Mission Critical Strategies Seminar Invite

Invitation and introduction to Free Seminar

Tags: innovation, productivity, seminar, competitiveness

Tony Smale CV 2011

Tony's latest CV

Tags: innovation, productivity, policy, competitiveness

Innovation and culture - a referenced summary

The correlation between the cognition and behaviour of New Zealanders and the national innovation system performance

Tags: innovation, productivity, culture, white paper, Forte Management

Forte Management 2011 Training and Coaching Programme

Forte's training and coaching program for 2011 including those approved under the NZTE Management Capability Voucher Scheme

Tags: Training, coaching, intellectual assets management, productivity, management

Making Money From Hidden Opportunities

Presentation to Metals New Zealand Conference Wellington 14 April 2011

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Forte Management

Forte Enterprise Digest business news 28 March 2011

Forte Managements complimentary business news service

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Forte Management, newsletter

Address to Australasian Industrial Research Group

Dinner address to AIRG summer conference Melbourne Australia

Tags: Innovation, research & development, AIRG, cultural differences

Forte Management workshop launch offer

Forte Management offers special package to help launch the NZTE Management Capability Voucher Scheme in Marlborough

Tags: Training, coaching, intellectual assets management

Ingenuity key to affluence

Newspaper article reporting Tony Smale's comments on building economic affluence by leveraging intellectual assets

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Forte Management

Local Government's Contribution to Economic Development

Report on the role of local government in stimulating New Zealand's economic development

Tags: Economic Development, local government, strategy

The importance of wage rates to economic development

An American study on the importance of factoring wage rates into economic development strategies

Tags: Economic Development, wage rates, strategy

Incite 2010 Presentation Notes

Tony Smale's speaker notes for the Incite 2010 workshop

Tags: innovation, productivity, policy, competitiveness

Thinking about how we think about innovation

MORST Chat Shop presentation 5 November 2010

Tags: innovation, productivity, policy, competitiveness

The way things are around here

PDF version of Powerpoint presentation to Strategic Link

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, national culture, Forte Management

Management Matters in New Zealand – How does manufacturing measure up?

Findings from the New Zealand Management Practices and Productivity global benchmarking project. April 2010

Tags: innovation, productivity, policy, competitiveness

Behaviours to increase international business success

Collaborative paper by NZ Institute and Forte Management

Tags: innovation, productivity, policy, competitiveness

Global Competitiveness Report 2010_2011

Address for Global Competitiveness Report 2010 - 2011

Tags: innovation, productivity, policy, competitiveness

Forte Management workshop programme

Integrated strategic innovation workshop programme

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Forte Management

Innovation types

Forte web paper Innovation and where it occurs

Tags: innovation, product, process, customer, channel

Strategic Innovation

Forte web paper Strategic Innovation

Tags: innovation, planning

Economic Performance

Forte web paper Performance

Tags: Performance, productivity, value

Conversion of invention to value

Forte web paper Conversion of Invention to Value

Tags: invention, value, conversion, productivity

Incite 2010 Brochure

Brochure and Registration form for Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce Incite 2010

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Forte Management

Unravelling New Zealand's Innovation Puzzle

Presentation to University of Otago Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship Programme

Tags: innovation, productivity, policy, Forte management

The Business Essentials of Kiwi Culture

White paper briefly outlining Kiwi behaviour attributable to national culture

Tags: national culture, Forte Management, White Paper

Japan National Innovation System

Schematic of Japan's National Innovation Syste.

Tags: Innovation, national culture, productivity, systems

The Implications of Kiwi Cognition and Behaviour for Innovation and Productivity Policy Making

NZ innovation policy must take account of the particular way that Kiwis think about and practice innovation

Tags: innovation, productivity, policy, Forte management

Exploiting intellectual assets

Media release Forte Management Intellectual Asset Management workshop

Tags: innovation, intellectual assets, Forte Management, productivity

Solving NZ's innovation and productivity puzzle

White paper looking at the affect of Kiwi culture on business performance

Tags: innovation, productivity, culture, white paper, Forte Management

Climate Change Initiatives in New Zealand

Address to UNFCCC conference, Bonn

Tags: economic development, Tony Smale, Forte management, Sustainable Development, UNFCCC

NZTE - Playing to our strengths

Explores the cultural traits that hold us back in international business, and suggests strategies that businesses can employ to mitigate these traits.

Tags: NZTE, culture, innovation, export, eNZyme intellect & Forte Management

The deep values of Japanese Culture

An interesting discussion on the role of culture in Japan-Western interactions

Tags: Culture, Economic Development, Business Development, Exporting

An Introduction to Learning Organisations

Support document for personal, professional and organisation development

Tags: Business Development, Workshop, Innovation, Productivity, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

Economic Development Practitioner Case Study

Tony Smale's Accredited Economic Development Professional Case Study

Tags: Economic Development, Tony Smale, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

NZTE DIY another day

NZTE Export News - DIY another day, eNZyme intellect's work on innovation highlighted

Tags: Innovation, Culture, Productivity, Entrepreneur, NZTE, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

Forte Management Newsletter Q1 2010

Tags: Newsletter, Productivity, Prosperity, Intellectual Assets, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

Media Release - A prescription for New Year prosperity

If New Zealand is to ever again enjoy prosperous New Years then it needs a prescription of fresh thinking.

Tags: Prosperity, Productivity, Enzyme Intellect & Forte, Media Release

Forte NZ GDP performance

New Zealand's GDP performance

Tags: NZ, Productivity, Prosperity

Forte Leading Smart Regions Brisbane 2006

Keynote Presentation to Leading Smart Regions Workshop by Tony Smale, Forte Business Development Advisors. Brisbance, Australia, 21 August 2006

Tags: Economic Development, Australia, Workshop, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

Forte Business models

Conventional & Alternative Kiwi Business models

Tags: Business Development, Profit, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

Media Release - Intellectual Assets Strategy

New service helps businesses grow the value hidden in their intellectual assets

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Entrepreneur, Media Release, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

OECD Guide to Successful Partnerships

From the OECD LEED forum on partnerships and local governance.

Tags: OECD, Economic Development, Employment, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

Defra Food Industry Sustainability Strategy

This is an outstanding example of a national food sustainable production strategy. The Executive summary is well worth reading.

Tags: UK, Sustainable Development, Exporting, Buy Local

Forté Management company brochure

Downloadable and printable brochure: 324Kb

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Forte Management

Why we can be so inventive but still be poor

A valuable new look at how NZ firms can create extra profit by understanding how Kiwis think about innovation and engage with their customers

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

Forte UK Market Exploration Report 2008

Report on Market Trends UK 2008

Tags: UK, Sustainable Development, Market Research, Exporting, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

Thinking about the way we think about innovation

Changing perceptions of, and ideas relating to innovation

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

Dalziel-Saunders regional economic development planning

Dalziel-Saunders regional economic development planning

Tags: Economic Development, NZ, Prosperity

Tony Smale's MBA Dissertation

The influence of National Culture on New Zealand's Innovation Culture

Tags: Innovation, Culture, Intellectual Assets, Tony Smale

Paper to the OECD LEED Partnerships Forum

A paper prepared by Tony Smale, to the OECD LEED Partnerships Forum, Vienna, Austria, September 2006.

Tags: OECD, Economic Development, Employment, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

Forte Newsletter October 2008

Forte FOCUS on business development newsletter for October 2008

Tags: Sustainable Development, UK, Enzyme Intellect & Forte, Newsletter

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17/10/2011 - 3 Key strategies seminar

Forte Management's seminar introducing the strategies that are most likely to help Kiwi businesses improve their performance while providing the best returns for investment of money, time and energy.
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22/06/2011 - SPAM emails

Forte's website was recently hacked by spammers and used to distribute bogus email SPAM. If you received such an email from our address we apologise for any inconvenience. We are currently working to upgrade the security of the site in the hope of preventing any recurrence. Thank you Forte Management

13/05/2011 - BNZ's Tony Alexander features Forte's National Culture work

We have recently been discussing the impact of national culture on New Zealand's economic performance. Economist Tony Alexander has now covered Forte's work in his BNZ Weekly Update.
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12/05/2011 - 3 Mission Critical Strategies - free seminar for Marlborough Businesses

Learn more about and how to register for this free seminar on how businesses can optimise their performance. The seminar is based on extensive research in New Zealand and overseas on how to overcome the barriers to productivity and profitability.
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27/04/2011 - Forte at Surveying & Spatial Sciences Conference

Tony Smale has been confirmed as an invited speaker for the international Surveying and Spatial Sciences Conference in Wellington, 21-25 November 2011.
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