Interview with Face Television
On the 7th of October the McGuinness Institute’s CEO Wendy McGuinness was interviewed for Face Television’s ‘In Conversation with Noel Cheer’. In this interview Wendy discusses the structure and role of think tanks, their relationship with public institutions and an overview of the work of the McGuinness Institute.
New Zealand King Salmon: Was it a good decision for New Zealand?
On 22 February 2020, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) published the Board of Inquiry’s final report and decision on New Zealand King Salmon’s (NZKS) application to establish nine new salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds. The Board approved four of the nine farms, with conditions. This means up to 19,000 tonnes per annum of additional...
Strategy Mapping at Kristin School
Over the 23/24 September, Wendy McGuinness and Diane White attended a strategy mapping event at Kristin School, Auckland. Kristin is an independent co-educational school of approximately 2020 students ranging from Kindergarten to Year 13. The event was organised by Christian Silver, a Year 10 student who attended the Sustainable Future Institute’s StrategyNZ: Mapping our Future event...
Top 200 Companies Integrated Reporting Survey Released
The Institute is happy to announce the publication of Integrated Annual Report Survey of New Zealand’s Top 200 Companies: Exploring Responses from Chief Financial Officers on Emerging reporting Issues. This finalises the first stage of Project One Integrated Report. We believe the use of one integrated annual report, by both organisations and countries, is a...
Harvard Business School eBook
We are pleased to announce that the findings from the ‘Top 200 Companies Integrated Annual Report Survey’ have been published in the Harvard Business School free e-book, titled ‘The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: Reflections and Next Steps’. The e-book captures the key issues and challenges of the integrated reporting movement at this point in time....
Boston Conference on Integrated Reporting
I have just retuned home from a “Workshop on Integrated Reporting: Frameworks and Action Plan” sponsored by the Business and Environment Initiative of the Harvard Business School. Robert G. Eccles, co-author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy was the driving force behind the conference. The purpose of the conference was to develop...
Invasion of New Zealand by Australia
If you haven’t seen these they are definitely worth a watch: Two Australian advertising agencies prepared mock ads for a TV programme called The Gruen Transfer (which screens on ABC in Australia on Monday nights) promoting an invasion of New Zealand. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKQwTYEWkDU&fs=1&hl=en_GB] One agency’s approach was to suggest that conquering Aotearoa was a good way...
Global Foresight Books Launched
We would like to congratulate Michael Marien on sucessfully launching the Global Foresight Books (GFB) website. The GFB project was initiated in 2020 by Marien to provide a reasonably complete inventory of current affairs books. The site also features short abstracts for all the listed books. Michael Marien was the founder and editor of Future Survey,...
General Meeting of Futures Thinking Aotearoa (NZ Futures Trust)
A general meeting for Futures Thinking Aotearoa (New Zealand Futures Trust) took place at the Sustainable Future Institute today, the 16th of August 2020. Three new board members were announced; Bob Frame, Ian Yeoman and Amy Fletcher. Three members of the board stood down from this position but will continue their involvement as members. These...
Formation of the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC)
The Sustainable Future Institute congratulates the Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) on announcing the formation of the International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC). The IIRC’s aim is to create a globally accepted framework for accounting for sustainability. A framework which brings together financial, environmental, social and governance information in...
Sustainable Future links with International Futurist Organisations
Earlier this month in Boston, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Millennium Project and the Sustainable Future Institute which establishes the Institute as the New Zealand Node of the Millennium Project. The Millennium Project is an independent, not-for-profit futures think tank, contributed to by futurists, scholars, business planners and policymakers. It is known...
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