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Practical thoughts on strategy, projects and getting results.
Learning while doing builds stronger capability
Learning while doing makes us more productive more quickly. Active or experiential learning builds stronger capability. People remember up to 75% of what they practice compared to just 10% from…
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Perspective matters – New Zealand’s place in the world
Perspective matters – Image credit World Projection Lab Perspective matters when considering anything. New Zealand has challenges but they are outweighed by opportunities. This map adopts the equal earth approach just…
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Successful AI Adoption starts with the right Foundations and Capability
New Zealand is moving quickly when it comes to generative AI. Tech NZ’s August 2026 report Digital Foundations First: A Practical Pathway for New Zealand SMEs places New Zealand third among APEC economies for generative…
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Does your organisation have the capability to deliver its strategy?
Every organisation has a strategy. Most have strategic plans, investment priorities and annual work programmes. Yet even with considerable effort and investment, we can struggle to achieve the outcome we have set. The…
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Pursuing Excellence requires targets
Edward De Bono invented the word “PO” – a provocative operation. A po is an idea (often silly) to take us out of the comfort of an existing pattern and move to a new one. The po generates possibilities. De Bono…
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Is your strategy good enough to eat?
Clarity of strategy is key to execution. It needs to be shared in bite-sized chunks so it can be consumed and feed action. I once wrote a marketing plan which was well received. My manager then told me it should align…
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Implementing strategy is a team sport
Image source: Strategy Implementation Institute Experience delivers results I am an experienced consultant but I learn new things every day because I make an effort to do so. Being active in professional associations…
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Open for business
Open for business image by Freepik Holiday mode We don’t have a White Christmas in New Zealand. We head off to the beach, lake or river. I like summer holidays as much as the next Kiwi but Hague Consulting is open for…
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Productivity is simple … and complicated
How much does it cost to make your business fly? Image by Freepik What is productivity? Productivity is both simple and complicated. Productivity measures the efficiency with which we convert capital, labour and…
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A fresh pair of eyes helps you grow
A fresh pair of eyes – Image by Freepik A fresh pair of eyes – how it helps me Each year I get to hear about great ideas being implemented around the world. And I get to ask the people who lead those initiatives any…
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Opportunities we miss
I live in Wellington, New Zealand, the windiest city on earth. But as I walked through Parliament grounds this morning, all the flags were hanging limply. It is a clear, still, mid-winter day. The harbour is flat as a…
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Learning by doing … and Vikings
Replica Viking longship at Roskilde, Denmark. Image credit: Jacquie Hamer We often learn best by doing things. We need knowledge and data but we need to do something useful with it too. If we don’t act on our knowledge,…
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