We are known the world over for our creative talents with many
high-profile projects being completed using New Zealand's
creativity, including James Cameron's Avatar. Our
outstanding ICT solutions, such as Orion Health's electronic health
records systems and Right Hemisphere's enterprise software for 3D
visual communications, are applied globally.
We offer a sufficient and sustainable competitive advantage
to companies seeking to use New Zealand as a base for
their ICT operations. Lower market rates and fewer employer add-ons
ensure New Zealand's workforce holds a cost advantage over other
developed countries, with savings of 50 percent compared to Japan,
up to 30 percent over other Western locations such as the United
States and United Kingdom, and up to 40 percent over Australia.
Several global industry leaders have chosen New Zealand as a
base for their ICT operations, including global IT services
provider Fujitsu and the Paris headquartered games developer,
Gameloft.
New Zealand's software developers and designers have creative
skills and design capabilities that lead the world in their
thinking and originality. The broad nature of work in New Zealand
means that employees tend to be generalists and typically work in
smaller teams, leading to faster and more effective response
times.
As the first country to start each day, business has a head
start in New Zealand. New Zealand's business day covers
the afternoon on the USA west coast, much of Asia's business day
and the morning in Europe, and we are a few hours
ahead of Australia. This gives you the opportunity to move ahead
while other markets sleep.
Some customers will be out there for
what they can get at the lowest price, but there are a lot of other
customers who are genuinely interested in high quality services at
competitive costs and that's where we can compete successfully from
New Zealand.
Paul Bourke -General Manager of Managed
Services for Fujitsu New Zealand
