Juanita Neville-Te Rito

91% of NZ organisations are now using AI in some form - and only 4% say it's actually changed how they operate, down from 8% a year ago (Datacom). Woolworths Australia reported that they ran 1500 GenAI use cases in a single year. And even by Forrester's own, more measured numbers, over a third of workers still fear AI will take their job within ten years. Chaos. Scale. Fear. That's the landscape most of us are standing in right now, whether we like it or not. But here is what gets lost the...

Every year, the gia Excellence in Retailing Awards - the Global Innovation Awards for home and housewares retail - put stores from over 30 countries side by side and celebrate the best of them. The New Zealand winner of the Excellence in Retailing award is flown to The Inspired Home Show in Chicago in March 2027. Finalists in the Top Window and Digital Commerce categories join them if they progress to the global final round, recognised alongside some of the sharpest retailers in the world....

87% of New Zealand businesses are already using AI, but most are still stuck between experimentation and execution. In this launch piece, RX Group and thecolab.ai unpack why so many AI initiatives fail to scale and introduce rxcolab.ai, a specialist ANZ retail AI venture focused on practical implementation, operational capability, and measurable commercial outcomes.