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Liza and I had an introductory meeting this week with our new Authorised iMIS Consultant (AiC) in New Zealand - Mr Bruce McPhail from Karapoti Consulting - www.karapoticonsulting.co.nz.

Bruce has been working with a number of iMIS customers in NZ for the past year but recently agreed to formalise his relationship with us by becoming authorised and formally joining the iMIS community. Bruce is a 25 year industry IT veteran and brings this experience to iMIS customers.

The outcome of the call with Bruce was to outline a training plan to fill the gaps in Bruce's iMIS skills and to help him drive customer satisfaction for iMIS customers in NZ.

A great article in this months NZICA (NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants) Journal, written by their CEO (Garry). A PDF scan of the whole article is attached below. The article covers the launch of their new iMIS powered website, and their next phase. Read on!

It’s been a busy few weeks for me meeting CEO’s. 2 more this week in NZ. I really appreciate this opportunity to talk about ASI values and our mission, and to talk business.

Today I met with the management team of a NZ prospect that are about to join the iMIS community. The questions from the CEO are always great questions. Today it was:

1. What are the critical success factors in an iMIS implementation?

Jason and I met on Monday with Paul (CEO), Allison (Finance/InfoSys GM) and Liz (Marketing/Comms GM) for a 2.5 hour workshop on setting a roadmap for Plunket over the coming 2 years and have that aligned with iMIS. Plunket have a very strong brand in NZ – in fact they see 92% of new babies every year – and have the potential to utilise technology to build on the strong community networks they already have in place. The future for them is very exciting! Plunket website here www.plunket.org.nz.

Jason and I were in Wellington on Monday 11th and we hosted Christmas drinks for customers in the Wellington area. In attendance were:

Simon, Nathan, Clive - NZICA
Dixon, Linda - NZPI
Lucy, Linden - NZPS
Anne Marie, Allison - Plunket
Peter - Sallies
Kim - SPADA
Makerita, Christine - Wellington Chamber

Jason and I both got a chance to talk with everyone there. The mood was positive all around about iMIS, all were very appreciative that we were there talking with them, although a couple of customers need to us to work with them so they can get more out of iMIS than they do (they already know it can do more).