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Failure to launch

Jessie Larsen and Kate Clark from MartinJenkins have some practical advice for project leaders on how to get stuck projects unstuck.

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Crown entities: New expectations, new opportunities

Principal Consultant Joanna Collinge has led and supported Crown entities across the motu, and she’s passionate about the value they create for the people of Aotearoa.

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Trust never sleeps: What is the Trust Equation?

Andrew Horwood, a Managing Principal at MartinJenkins, draws on his own experience as a private secretary in a ministerial office – and a little bit of late‑70s Neil Young –…

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Leading through downsizing: Face the facts, but keep the faith

Allana Coulon, our Managing Partner, looks back on a challenging time for the firm earlier this year when we had to downsize.

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In the room where it happened: Government’s back-to-basics benchmarking challenge to councils

MartinJenkins’ Partner Sarah Baddeley reflects further on what “back to basics” might mean for local government following the challenge set down by central government in August.

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Wrong decision or wrong problem?

Cathryn Lancaster, a Principal Consultant at MartinJenkins, urges governors to keep their eye on something that can often get lost along the way in major projects – the problem the…

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Flexibility revolution

MartinJenkins’ Managing Partner Allana Coulon looks at the rapid growth of flexible working in New Zealand and its implications for culture, performance, and inclusion.

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Walking the fiscal tightrope

The Government has signalled that it continues to take its forecast operating allowance for Budget 2025 very seriously and that areas of core government spending are not immune.

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Bureaucratic bearings: How business can navigate the public sector and shape policy

Endless meetings, opaque processes, and glacial decision making – for the private sector, working with government can feel like navigating a maze blindfolded.

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Pursuing value: Regular check-ups or major surgery?

MartinJenkins Partner Richard Tait looks at ways organisations can make monitoring their value-for-money performance part of their regular practice.

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