New Zealand’s ICT industry is growing fast and some businesses are flourishing. Others are held back by lack of resources – time, money, skilled people and expert guidance. 

The recently released New Zealand Sectors Report on ICT says that information technology is increasingly pervasive across all economic and social activities, and is driving significant and sometimes fundamental change in most sectors of the economy. The report refers to growing ‘weightless exports’ and talks about ‘multi-firm, high impact market development programmes’ as a way to accelerate success. It also acknowledges that a lot of innovation occurs in small and start-up New Zealand-owned companies, which are nearly always hampered by lack of investment. 

None of this is new to us. We’ve been actively participating in New Zealand’s digital economy for two decades. We understand its strengths and weaknesses, challenges and opportunities. Our role, as a partner and investor for promising ICT companies, is to keep an open mind about where our next interesting phone call will come from. In other words, we’re not limited by the sectors described below.