The purpose of applied research is to inform action. Since our lives are built on the choices we make, critical evaluation, experiential learning and knowledge-sharing are developed competencies that ultimately transform our lives, our communities, and our future. The vision of Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus is to develop ‘New Zealand’s most employable graduates’; research capability and co-publication are meaningful, empowering and leverageable mechanisms in that purs…
Strategy and risk are two sides of the same coin. Hindsight has proven that risk from a global pandemic was underestimated; Coronavirus forced organisations to re-evaluate their strategy. Furthermore, sophisticated assessments of risk are not only the trend, but they are also prudent and opportune. For organisations, the growing move to assess climate change risk is important from a mitigation perspective, but vitally, as an opportunity gauge as well. This paper will be a summary revie…