Business Performance

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Business Performance

• What is Business Performance?
• Business Performance Strategy
• What will it deliver?
• Business Performance Survey Plan
• Progress
• ICT and Business Performance
• Questions

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What is Business Performance?

• Identifying characteristics of businesses that
  grow
• Focus on specific sectors
• Biotechnology
• ICT
• Creative industries
• Focus on enablers of business growth
• Designing statistics to enable policy decisions
  to be made
• Recognition that an on-going set of national
  business statistics is required to track changes
  over time

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Business Performance Strategy

• In 2003, Statistics New Zealand created the
  Business Performance Unit in response to GIF
  recommendations
• Three main purposes
• produce a greatly expanded set of business
  performance data based on international best
  practice and comparability,
• produce research outcomes around identified areas
  of interest including productivity and dataset
  integration and
• a catalyst for change in the Statistics New
  Zealand organisation.

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What will it deliver?

• Improved collection, analysis and publication of
  Business Performance statistics
• International alignment and comparability
• Identifications of drivers within the NZ context
  of firm level growth and innovation (including
  productivity gains)
• Ensure integration of collected data with other
  data to maximise use by Stats NZ, Policy
  Agencies, Researchers, Business and the general
  public

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Business Performance Survey Plan
2005
2006
2007
2008
2004
2003
2002
2001
Business Perf mod.
Business Perf mod.
Business Perf mod.
Business Perf mod.
Innovation Module
ICT Bus Use
Innovation Module
ICT Bus Use
Business Practices
Innovation Survey
Business Finance
Business Practice
TBC
TBC
Business Practice
R D
R D
R D
R D
Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
ICT Supply
ICT Supply
ICT Supply
ICT Supply
IT Survey
IT Survey
IT Survey
IT Survey
ICT Govt Use
ICT Govt Use
ICT Govt Use
ICT House
ICT House
ICT House
ICT House
ISP Supply
ISP Supply
ISP Supply
ISP Supply
Screen Survey
Screen Survey
Screen Survey
Screen Survey
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ICT and Business Performance

• One of the four sectors identified by GIF for
  high growth potential
• Programme initiated in 2003, with completion of
  roll-out by 2008
• To measure overall impact, demand and supply data
  components are being developed
• Suite of one re-developed survey, four new
  surveys, updated admin data sources, new annual
  ICT report and creation of an ICT satellite
  account

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Questions