New Zealand Innovation

So, some irony - two articles forwarded to me yesterday, both regarding software innovation in NZ, both at opposite ends of the optimism scale:

(1): http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/5264129/Kiwi-software-skills-shallow (thanks Ann)

(2): http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10737621 (thanks Dad)

My $0.02...

Perhaps the overqualified expat CRM corporate executives of the world (seriously Dr McKendry, please don't tell me you think that Siebel is an innovate product?) should remember where they came from.

NZ'ers split the atom, climbed Mt Everest and invented the electric fence; what's wrong with producing actual solutions to actual business problems in between?

Go uncle Ed!

Go back to Silicon Valley Dr McKendry...

PS: I'm fairly confident that my response is exactly the sort that Dr McKendry was hoping to invoke with his talk!