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Sharing knowledge is what we do

Exploring the imaginative potential of New Zealand businesses and their leaders

How Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can meaningfully conduct business continuity planning to ensure the security of their small business during uncertain times.

Small businesses (also known as Small Medium Enterprises or SMEs) are naturally agile, for a raft of reasons. Here, Christchurch Consultant, Sam Butcher, shares his insights - from his experience with Redvespa and as a small business owner - that showcase the reality of being in small business.

Three insights to help unleash potential in small businesses.

Business for Good

Communication

Knowledge

As New Zealand's COVID-19 response moves from isolating the virus to vaccinating against it, businesses across Aotearoa are having to adapt their response accordingly. While everyone is responding to the same Government initiatives, how businesses interpret and adapt to them is varied, and challenging. Having learned from the approaches of others, we're also sharing our approach.

How we developed our COVID-19 policy, and why we're sharing it.

How Redvespa are approaching managing the health and safety of our employees as New Zealand moves to the traffic light system of the COVID-19 Protection Framework.

How we're approaching our people's health and safety under the traffic light system.

When Activate Tāmaki Makaurau was announced, we knew we wanted to get involved in our regional community.

BA Magic

Business Analysis

It's not just big business. We are an SME ourselves. Our focused services create big impacts for smaller business.

Jemma Burton provides an insight into life as a Redvespa Consultant Business Analyst.

Finding common ground on connection in meetings, from 18000kms apart.

Redvespa’s roots are in Business Analysis, it’s where we carved out our specialism in the New Zealand business landscape, and it’s at the core of our growth since. But we’re no one trick pony; Redvespa prides itself on having what it takes to take our clients’ businesses from where they are, to where they could be. Now, in 2021, we’re proud to announce Redvespa is taking that culture and expertise to the United Kingdom.

Now taking UK business from where it is to where it could be.

Engaging people remotely, when attention spans are outlasted by goldfish.

Reflecting on a year where resilience and innovation unleashed potential.

ClearThinking is bite-sized Business Analysis Consultancy for executive leaders.
ClearThinking cuts through the noise to clarify and prioritise actions that get results. 

ClearThinking is bite-sized Business Analysis Consultancy for leaders. 

Thinking about change in business during, and after, COVID.

Onboarding during a pandemic and the evolution of remote ways of working.

Celebrating ten years of Redvespa in Auckland.

New research from Redvespa, Imagination in Business, points to a lack of imagination behind New Zealand’s slide down the Global Innovation Index.

Research points to lack of imagination in New Zealand innovation.

Three reasons, and five ways, to use your imagination every day.

Taking Business Analysis lessons from improv classes.

Moana O'Neil is an adventure racer and Redvespa's COO. Building resilience is a passion for her in both fields, here she explores the crossover.

The benefit of leaning into vulnerability in order to build resilience.

Keith Sharing explores imagination and innovation in order to help guide businesses on how they can make time and develop processes that encourage the successful implementation of both.

Do we need to be imaginative in order to be innovative?

The evolution and value of imagination, part two.

The first in a two-part series exploring the change in how imagination is valued and how it can be developed personally and in business. Part One explores the personal and societal history of shunning imagination and how this has changed as we move away from restrictive frameworks and thinking and towards creativity and innovation.

The evolution and value of imagination, part one.

Chris Johnston, a Redvespa consultant based in Christchurch, reflects on the impact that Redvespa's B Corp certification had on her decision to join the company. She also explores the benefits she derives from the company's Business for Good philosophy.

Making design frameworks work, with imagination.

Dubbed the Wellbeing Budget, the New Zealand Government's 2019 Budget sought to embed wellbeing principles within the nation's overarching financial document. While budgets are always contentious, this one does offer an alignment between the principles of B Corps and the direction of New Zealand's economy.

How the Wellbeing Budget takes New Zealand towards being a B Corp society.

We live in the world of the remix, where the ideas and initiatives of one company serve as inspiration for the ideas and initiatives of others. Through inspired remixing and working collaboratively with our people, Redvespa has embraced the complexities of its working environment to build a strong company culture where everyone can thrive.

How Redvespa builds a workplace where everyone can thrive.

In July 2018, Redvespa gained B Corp certification after a nine month process. Our Business for Good Champion, Laura Caccioppoli, reflects on Redvespa's first year as a B Corp, looking at what we've learned, what we've done, and what we're yet to do.

Redvespa's Business for Good Champion looks back at our first year as a B Corp.

In July 2018, Redvespa gained B Corp certification. A year later, we released our first Business for Good Annual Report. Both of these initiatives are intended to connect us to a community of businesses and organisations working to make the world a better place. In the process of defining our role, we took inspiration from the UN's Sustainable Development Goals before adapting them to better suit our aims and focus. That led us to our Business for Good Values.

From Sustainable Development Goals to Business for Good Values.

Many organisations are still creating a disappointment loop where procurement is instructed to reduce costs, vendors over-promise, and their teams under-deliver. Su Beresford looks at how we can break this loop under new ways of working, like Agile.

The value of vendor partnerships under Agile.

Why you need an Agile RFx to find an Agile vendor.

How valuable (and vulnerable) is your authenticity? Purpose matters in people’s buying decisions. This can be particularly so for the smaller, local or specialist businesses. Businesses with whom people identify. But how much do you really control how business purpose translates into customer experience? How do you protect your purpose in the modern, savvy economy?

How valuable (and vulnerable) is your purpose? 

Redvespa has gone through a journey on our way to being in business for good and to have impact. 

Gen-Z Jack O’Neil imparts his primary school wisdom, on how a growth mindset can overcome challenges.

Design is a mindset, not a role. Learn design thinking techniques the whole business can apply to their way of working. 

Draw it, chart it, map it, graph it. Here’s a bit of creative BA inspiration, for displaying your information.

BPMN

Process Modelling

The BA benefits of flying high and scoping the full picture, before diving down and digging into the details.

creativity

design thinking

Kick start your vision with a lego workshop; a creative and concise way to allow everyone to be heard.

business analysis

lessons

stakeholder

What’s the connection between being a BA and parenting? Being open to how we communicate, and to even adapting the rules.

diagram

processes

tips

How to use creative sketching in business analysis, to turn a data-driven process into a human-telling story.

customer

customer experience

Understanding your customer, is at the heart of solving your value proposition and business solutions. Here’s how.

ideas

questioning

While we’re all aiming for success, here’s why allowing yourself to be wrong is the only path to being right.

management

project management

techniques

The difference between starting a project at green versus red, and the psychological difference for succeeding.

agile

innovation

leadership

Whisky

How thinking can lead to sharing, exploring can lead to discovering, and whiskey can lead to an interesting article.

analysis

career

festive

A Valentine’s Day story that reveals the loveable parts of being a BA. Like freeing the inner child to ask why.

analyst

change

communication

A one week shower challenge that will flex your change muscles, and experiment with your emotions.

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2022 Imagination in Business Survey

Continuity and Growth Plans for Small and Medium Businesses

Big thinking. Small business.

Pulling back the curtain on business COVID-19 policies

Redvespa’s COVID-19 Policy

Helping Activate Tāmaki Makaurau

Supporting NZ SMEs

A remote overseas partnership

A day in the life

Announcing Redvespa UK