For many CFOs, AI has moved beyond experimentation and into the budget. Copilot licences, ChatGPT and Claude subscriptions, training and governance are all adding up. As adoption increases, attention is shifting towards whether those costs are producing an adequate return. Not all AI returns are created equal Some returns are
Plenty of leaders who are mid-career or looking for change know exactly what’s wrong. They’ve read the books, done the podcasts, picked up a useful line or two from a seminar. What they haven’t done is turn any of it into a habit that survives a bad week. That gap,
Most mornings, Richard Kettle’s phone fills up with texts from farmers. Not enquiries. Not complaints. Orders. Drums of drench for Wairoa. Supplements heading to the Wairarapa. Fly control products bound for Gore. No quote requested, no price check, just farmers who’ve found a supplier they trust and are getting on
Kaweka Hospital. The stopbank rebuild after Cyclone Gabrielle. Napier’s newest suburb taking shape at Mission, above Taradale. If you have watched Hawke’s Bay change over the past nine years, there is a good chance you have been looking at local twin-city planning consultancy Stradegy’s work without knowing it. Stradegy, with
Duncan and Amanda moved their family from Wellington to Hawke’s Bay in 2007 to take on the exclusive local partnership for a major international copier brand. Their kids were seven and nine. Duncan had a small consultancy running in the capital and Amanda was working in a senior HR role,
