Business View Oceania | September 2022

17 18 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 9 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA VOLUME 4, ISSUE 9 SHI PLEYS incredibly busy of late- because of the significant increase in demand we’re a little understaffed, as is everyone else. It’s critical that we bring new talented people on board to alleviate the stress of our team and allow them more time to spend on themselves, and with their loved ones. We believe that most of the upcoming advancements in tech are going to be driven by software more than hardware, so we’re making sure we have strong minds in that space to understand coding and advanced digital technologies to compliment team who have a monumental amount of experience working with physical hardware and analogue technologies.” More community work is on the cards for Shipleys’ future, Mr. Whitnall shares. “We strongly believe in bringing meaning to everything we do, to genuinely help our communities connect, collaborate, and learn. When people come to us and just don’t have a big budget but are doing something valuable, we always try our upmost to help them out. We want to work to leverage our that have occurred since we last spoke to Shipleys approximately one year ago. “Our audiovisual department has been incredibly busy. We were recently selected as a preferred supplier for the new Convention Centre in Christchurch, so we’ve been doing quite a lot of work in there alongside others in the industry, and it’s been incredible for our city. Our other key focus at the moment is scaling up to service the massive increase in demand for audiovisual services following the pandemic- as part of industry that was affected very heavily by redundancies, we are incredibly proud to say that we kept all of our team, but it’s now about finding the right people that believe in our vision and fit in with our culture. We have refreshed a lot of our technology in areas like computing, vision, connectivity, and videography, and we’ve done a lot to improve processes to make it easier for our team to work.” He continues, “Our largest investments of late have been in our people. Our team has been capabilities and experience to help those who want to host events that genuinely improve the lives of others. He concludes, “In the long term, we would like to get to a place where Shipleys can develop and build our own hardware and software technologies that allow us to solve a range of problems both inside and outside of our industry. We’re not here to make a profit for shareholders- we’re here to continually trial, develop, and implement new technology, because that’s what our team love doing. That’s why they work at Shipleys. But right now, our focus is on building up our team whilst maintaining our current culture, which is really quite special. Once we have stronger numbers in our crew, we can ramp up our commitments to significant technology investment and grow in more meaningful ways to support clients across the country.” Panasonic provide leading AV Solutions based on innovative technology for all environments e: business.products@nz.panasonic.com p: +64 9 272 0100 w: business.panasonic.nz PREFERRED VENDORS/ PARTNERS n Direct Imports (NZ) Ltd www.directimports.co.nz n Panasonic New Zealand www.panasonic.com/nz