NBR Radio: Sunday Business with Andrew Patterson

(0.55)We catch up on the week’s market action with Greg Smith from Fat Prophets. (6:37)We hear more about the appointment of Adrian Orr as the new Reserve Bank Governor from NBR’s economics and political editor Rob Hosking. (10:44)Andrew's feature guest this week is Andrew Turnbull, the Investment Committee Chair for the Kiwi Innovation Network – or KiwiNet. He discusses a new program designed to encourage individual researchers within public research institutions into creating start-ups of their own. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(.55)Simon Dallow reviews the business week with this week’s Rear View. (4:11)We catch up on the week’s market action with Nigel Scott of Craigs Investment Partners. (11:39)Grant Walker speaks to NZ Law Society president Kathryn Beck, who discusses a new gender policy which aims to increase the number of women lawyers. (18:26)The feature guest this week is UK management consultant Neil Gaught. He discusses his recent book “CORE” which argues that the world's most admired businesses create a powerful Single Organizing Idea around which the entire business functions. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(0.57)Simon Dallow reviews the business week with this week’s Rear View. (4:06)We catch up on the week’s market action with Shane Solly from Harbour Asset Management. (9:16)We hear from Snapper CEO Miki Szikszai on how his business is taking a whole new approach to interns. (16:39)The feature guest this week is Christchurch based business consultant Roger Dennis. He discusses how New Zealand businesses are coping with the innovation paradox. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:01)Simon Dallow reviews the business week with this week’s Rear View. (3:27)We catch up on the week’s market action with Mike Taylor from Pie Funds. (8:48)We hear from a visiting US academic and author Tony Seba. He warns that big spending on roading projects may turn out to be a waste of money given the predicated disruption to the transport sector in the next decade. (16:35) Andrew's feature guest this week is former Wellington mayor and National Party MP Mark Blumsky. Mr Blumsky is now based in the tiny Pacific nation of Niue, where he has developed multiple businesses in both the tourism and horticulture sectors. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(48 seconds)Susan Wood reviews the business week with this week’s Rear View. (3:31)We catch up on the week’s market action with Hamilton Hindin Greene analyst Tom McBride. (8:03)Innovation as a concept tends to be treated like an incantation. If companies say the right words, hire the right team and shake them together in a back room, world-beating ideas might pop out. But Simplicity managing director Sam Stubbs offers some ideas on how to better coordinate the chaos of innovation with the necessity of business order. (15:58)The feature guest this week is George Day, Emeritus Professor of Marketing at Wharton in the US. Andrew Patterson spoke to Professor Day this week about his book “Peripheral Vision: Detecting the Weak Signals that Can Make or Break Your Company.” To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:01)Susan Wood reviews the business week with this week’s Rear View. (3:38)We catch up on the week’s market action with Mark Riggall from Milford Asset Management. (10:51)We hear from Xero co-founder Rod Drury following this week’s surprise announcement that the company is set to delist from the NZX next year. (14:28)Andrew's feature guest this week is geo-political analyst Alastair Newton who was a keynote speaker at this week’s Insurance Council of NZ annual conference. They discuss the changing nature of geopolitical risk globally and its implications for risk assessment. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(59 sec)We review the week on the markets with Shane Solly from Harbour Asset Management. (6:14) NBR’s Grant Walker speaks to NZ Initiative Executive Director Dr Oliver Hartwich about what the new government might learn from Switzerland’s devolved governance structure. (13:44) Andrew's feature guests this week is tech futurist Frances Valintine. She discusses some of the challenges New Zealand still needs to address when it comes to fully embracing digital technology and developing a blue print for the country’s future in this area. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:14)We review the week on the markets with NBR Editor Duncan Bridgeman. (7:23)NBR’s Grant Walker speaks to Waikato University Professor Iain White. They discuss the ability of NZ’s infrastructure to cope with increasingly damaging storms being blamed on Climate Change and the fact that much of NZ’s infrastructure was designed to cope with weather events of a passing era. (16:46)Andrew's feature guests this week are Dr Michelle Dickinson and David Downs. They speak about their new book No 8 Recharged which examines some of New Zealand’s more recent innovation success stories. It argues that our long held love of the No 8 wire mentality is no longer relevant and in fact damaging to New Zealand. But as a country are we really as innovative as we like to think? To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:14)We review the week on the markets with Kevin Stirrat Head of Investment Strategy at Forsyth Barr. (11:58)Brian Gaynor from Milford Asset Management gives his reaction to this week’s surprise announcement from NZ First leader Winston Peters to form a new government with Labour. (17:59)While business NZ chief executive Kirk Hope discusses the potential implications for business. (22:30)Andrew's feature guest this week is NZ born research scientist Dr Clyde Smith who has been based at Stanford in the US for the last decade. They discuss the growing concern regarding antibiotic-resistant super-bugs and what is being termed the “research void” that has occurred where no significant scientific discoveries have been made in this area for more than two decades. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:06)We review the week on the markets with Greg Smith from Fat Prophets. (6:29)NBR’s Fiona Rotherham speaks to Women of Influence award winner, former Microsoft NZ boss and serial entrepreneur Helen Robinson. They discuss her ambitions for protecting the planet with her new company Organic Initiative, while still chasing profits and market share. (14:27)Andrew Patterson speaks to Canadian rich lister and philanthropist John McCall MacBain. They discuss his 2013 gift of $170 million to support the well-known Rhodes Scholarship programme and his recent decision to gift more than $1 million to the University of Auckland to kick start its new Kia Tuhura Scholarship programme. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:09) We review the week on the markets with Mark Devcich from Pie Funds. (6:18)NBR’s Grant Walker speaks to well-known NZ film and television director and investor John Barnett. He discusses life after South Pacific Pictures and some of the latest projects he’s backing. (13:48)The feature guest this week is renowned economic historian Professor Niall Ferguson. He discusses his compelling new book The Square and the Tower Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power. He argues that while we think the network age is a modern phenomenon, networks have in fact been operating for hundreds of years and their impact on history has perhaps been overlooked to this point. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:05)We review the week on the markets with Grant Davies from Hamilton Hindin Green. (5:40)NBR’s Nevil Gibson speaks to KPMG’s London-based global head of public transport Richard Threfall. Mr Threfall was in Auckland this week to brief local transport officials on what he describes as a coming “revolution” set to have far-reaching implications for the transport sector. (11:55)The feature guest this week is Joshua Mendoza, who is based in Silicon Valley. Mr Mendoza is part of the team working on Microsoft’s new flagship product Hololens that looks set to usher in a whole new approach to the way we learn and do business in the future. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:04)We review the week on the markets with Shane Solly from Harbour Asset Management. (6:16)Andrew speaks to Adam Blackwell the founder of Wellington based creative sales agency STUN. The business has expanded into the US following the success of its custom digital tool-kits for sales teams designed to put an end to poorly produced powerpoint presentations. (11:51)The feature guest this week is Nick Shewring, co-founder of co-working space BizDojo. They discuss the results of a new survey BizDojo commissioned which revealed 95% of entrepreneurs taking part in the survey felt they had been affected by mental health issues in some way. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:22)We review the week on the markets with Nigel Scott from Craig’s Investment Partners. (8:12)NBR’s Grant Walker speaks to University of Auckland Vice Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon about a new survey out this week which ranks the university 75th among its global peers for producing graduates who can get jobs. This follows a recent downgrading of Auckland in another World University Rankings list which saw it fall almost 30 places to 192nd on the list of the world’s Top 200 universities. (16;34)Andrew's feature guest this week is Paul Cameron, co-founder of Booktrack. We hear about the business, that allows audio books to be recorded with an accompanying sound track, and the impact that AI is having on Booktrack’s growth prospects in the future. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:23)We review the week on the markets with Rob Mercer from Forsyth Barr. (8:52)NBR’s Grant Walker speaks to UK Institute of Business Ethics director Philippa Foster Back. She was in the country this week ahead of the November launch of its first New Zealand specific report – Ethical Business Leadership: A New Zealand Perspective. (15:58)Andrew's feature guest this week is Tim Warren, co-founder of AMBIT. AMBIT is a locally-owned artificial intelligence company that specialises in building turnkey chatbots for enterprise, both customer and internally facing. Its technology is a blend of scripts, natural language processing, human intervention capability, and structured data capture along with the ability to drive proactive interactions. Its technology that was previously only available to large corporates, now SME’s are able to take advantage of the power of AI. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:43)We review the week on the markets with Greg Smith from Fat Prophets. (7:45)NBR’s Nevil Gibson speaks to S&P Global chief economist Paul Sheard. Mr Sheard believes the “long shadows” of the GFC have finally dissipated with 45 of the world’s largest economies on track to expand this year and 33 of them poised to accelerate from a year ago. (12:12)Andrew's feature guest this week is former British academic Guy Standing. Mr Standing has written extensively on the subject of Universal Basic Income an idea that seems to be gathering some momentum globally. He argues that a fundamental breakdown of income distribution and a growing level of job displacement as a result of technology advances requires a whole new approach to the way people will be paid in the future. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

We review the week on the markets with Ricky Ward from JB Were. NBR’s Grant Walker speaks to under pressure Sky TV CEO John Fellet about this week’s full year result with net profit down 21% for the year. Andrew's feature guest this week is Doug Hastie chief executive of Christchurch based Syft Technologies but is probably better known for those TV commercials promoting his Chanui Tea brand. We hear more about his career as an engineer, investment banker, chief executive and purveyor of fine teas and now biscuits. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:06)We review the week on the markets with Grant Davies of Hamilton Hindin Green. (6:41)Earlier this week Fletcher Building has just reported an 80% drop in annual net profit to just $94 million. The two biggest contributors to the profit fall were the $292 million loss made by the company’s Building & Interiors unit and the $222 million write-down in the value of its Tradelink and Iplex Australia businesses. Grant Walker speaks to NBR’s Jenny Ruth on the latest results. (11:21)Andrew Patterson speaks to Hila Oren, CEO of Tel Aviv Foundation and the founder and CEO of Tel Aviv Global and Tourism. She discusses the growing importance of global cities and why New Zealand’s major cities should seek to emulate this trend. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:01)We review the week on the markets with Sam Trethewey from Milford Asset Management. (5:04)NBR’s Calida Smylie speaks to Matthew Circosta from credit rating agency Moody’s about New Zealand’s current risk profile and our exposure to potential shocks offshore. (9:37)Andrew's feature guest this week is Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Reichert. Following a recent extended visit to this country, they discuss some possible steps for developing New Zealand’s fledgling start-up eco-system. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business

(1:05)We review the week on the markets with Shane Solly of Harbour Asset Management. (5:50)NBR’s Grant Walker speaks to UK retail futurist Howard Saunders who remains upbeat about the sectors prospects. (16:41)Andrew's feature guest this week is NZ Rugby Football Union chief executive Steve Tew. We find out what it’s like to lead NZ’s most well-known brand, how the changing face of digital technology is set to give more options to the NZRFU when it comes to content rights and could the All Blacks ever become a listed company similar to many premier English football clubs. To subscribe: www.nbr.co.nz/sunday-business