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Open the door from the inside

If we had a dollar for every time a business told us they’ve tried knocking on a ‘Buyers’ door and can’t get their foot in it, we’d be rolling in it.Trying to get a foot in the door with Buyers can be hard work and the doors often seem like they are absolutely bolted shut. There are plenty of capable Māori and Pasifika businesses that cannot seem to catch a break.The thing is, Buyer doors can only be opened from the inside so as procurers, we need to intentionally open the door.‘Ope...

Aussie is better than us at Indigenous Procurement

Aussie and Aotearoa love a good competition, but when it comes to Indigenous procurement, we have to give it up for the Aussies (but we are hot on their heels). In this article we look at some of the learnings we can take from Australia and how we could adopt some of those here.Supplier Diversity in Australia: Australia has been implementing supplier diversity longer than us. They are about 10 years ahead of Aotearoa in their supplier diversity journey as a nation. They have made significant str...

Buying from Māori businesses is good for the ‘Buyer’

When a large public or private organisation intentionally spends money with a Māori and/or Pasifika business (supplier diversity) it helps grow those businesses which has enormous flow on effects (read more about the triple ripple effect).It has the power to boost the Māori and Pasifika economies and is good for Aotearoa as a whole. What is often overlooked are the benefits for the Buyer. There can be direct benefits to the procuring organisations that buy from Māori and Pasifika businesses.I...

Doing the same thing and expecting a different result

Many organisations look at their spend with Māori and Pasifika businesses and think ‘oh crap, we really don’t spend a lot of money with these businesses’. We must do something to change this.But, often ‘doing something’ usually turns into doing the same thing as usual and somehow expecting things will change. That's generally not how this works.If a government agency has always put opportunities up on GETS and has experienced very low uptake (if any) from Māori and Pasifika businesse...

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