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Forte Newsletter October 2008

Forte FOCUS on business development newsletter for October 2008

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

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

Tony Smale's MBA Dissertation

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

Tags: Innovation, Culture, Intellectual Assets, Tony Smale

Dalziel-Saunders regional economic development planning

Dalziel-Saunders regional economic development planning

Tags: Economic Development, NZ, Prosperity

Thinking about the way we think about innovation

Changing perceptions of, and ideas relating to innovation

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

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

Forté Management company brochure

Downloadable and printable brochure: 324Kb

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Forte Management

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

Forte OAD tool

Forte Business Groups Organisation Analysis and Development tool

Tags: Business Development, Profit, 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

Tony Smale CV 2009

Tony's most recent Curriculum Vitae.

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

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

Forte Business models

Conventional & Alternative Kiwi Business models

Tags: Business Development, Profit, Enzyme Intellect & Forte

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 NZ GDP performance

New Zealand's GDP performance

Tags: NZ, Productivity, Prosperity

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 Management Newsletter Q1 2010

Tags: Newsletter, Productivity, Prosperity, Intellectual Assets, 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

Economic Development Practitioner Case Study

Tony Smale's Accredited Economic Development Professional Case Study

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

An Introduction to Learning Organisations

Support document for personal, professional and organisation development

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

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

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

Climate Change Initiatives in New Zealand

Address to UNFCCC conference, Bonn

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

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

Exploiting intellectual assets

Media release Forte Management Intellectual Asset Management workshop

Tags: innovation, intellectual assets, Forte Management, productivity

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

Japan National Innovation System

Schematic of Japan's National Innovation Syste.

Tags: Innovation, national culture, productivity, systems

Intellectual Assets Management Worksheets

Excel Spreadsheet for recording and assessing assets

Tags: intellectual asset, management, 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

Unravelling New Zealand's Innovation Puzzle

Presentation to University of Otago Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship Programme

Tags: innovation, productivity, policy, Forte management

Incite 2010 Brochure

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

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Forte Management

Conversion of invention to value

Forte web paper Conversion of Invention to Value

Tags: invention, value, conversion, productivity

Economic Performance

Forte web paper Performance

Tags: Performance, productivity, value

Strategic Innovation

Forte web paper Strategic Innovation

Tags: innovation, planning

Innovation types

Forte web paper Innovation and where it occurs

Tags: innovation, product, process, customer, channel

Forte Management workshop programme

Integrated strategic innovation workshop programme

Tags: Innovation, Productivity, Intellectual Assets, Forte Management

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25/08/2010 - Playing to Our Strengths - Converting Our Inventiveness Into Profit

New programme presented by Tony Smale and the Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce.
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9/08/2010 - Forté Management speaking at Incite 2010

Tony Smale joins an outstanding line-up of speakers at this years Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce INCITE 2010. Brochure and registration form available here.
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4/08/2010 - Forte Management lectures at University of Otago

Forté Management's Tony Smale has delivered a lecture on "Unravelling New Zealand's Innovation Puzzle" to University of Otago Master of Entrepreneurship degree programme. For course material click below.
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20/06/2010 - Innovation and productivity policy implications of Kiwi culture

Forte Management publishes discussion paper addressing the role that Kiwi culture has for innovation and productivity and the policy implications that brings with it.
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15/06/2010 - Managing intellectual assets workshop

Forte Management announces New Zealand first Intellectual Assets Management workshop
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