Organisations in New Zealand

In the last decades the focus across both the public and private sectors has been to produce smaller business units with an emphasis on autonomy and self-reliance in order to achieve economically efficient organisations and competitive sectors.

The emphasis on larger numbers of functionally independent organisations has essentially produced a large number of “silos” units:

• economically efficient in the day-to-day operating context
• typically lack sufficient connectivity and critical mass to enable a co-ordinated and collective response to adverse events

There are two prime examples of multi-organisation initiatives in New Zealand to attempt to bridge these silos: