“They’ve got connections, experience and bucketloads of goodwill, but the global community of successful New Zealand expats is still a largely untapped resource.”
Inventiveness is not the problem, as there’s plenty of innovation happening. But for reasons ranging from access to capital to lack of effective marketing, New Zealand lacks the same track record when it comes to getting successful companies offshore.
In the latest issue of Kia Ora, Air New Zealand’s in-flight magazine, Managing Partner and Clareo’s resident Kiwi Peter Bryant talks about why this is, and how expats can help Kiwi firms embrace innovation and take on the world – themes he also touched on during his keynote on technological disruption at this year’s New Zealand CFO Summit.
