Best of BusinessDesk: Dileepa Fonseka's top columns from 2024

Best of BusinessDesk: Dileepa Fonseka's top columns from 2024
Dileepa Fonseka's columns this year covered everything from Spark losing its literal Mojo to NZ's fleeing talent. (Image: BusinessDesk).
Dileepa Fonseka
Running NZ to failure (First published July 29)As hospitals in the United Kingdom reverted to pen and paper for part of last week, the New Zealand way of running our assets to failure was vindicated.  Hospitals across the developed world might have been using CrowdStrike, but ours weren’t.After reading a recent briefing to the then-incoming Minister of Health, Shane Reti, it is unclear if our health servers would be up to running CrowdStrike anyway. Forget cybersecurity; it is not even clear if our health IT systems can continue...

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