Koru Solutions Culture

Koru Solutions is built upon a mix of innovative thinking and a culture or attitude of always finding ways to improve on the complete and never accepting anything as impossible.

Koru Solutions ingenuity has come from our staff, all of which have worked in different continents, and different cultures. To succeed in such environments requires an adventurous, sometimes tough and hardworking nature in these uncertain lands. Koru Solutions ingenuity has developed from a need to improvise, resulting from a degree of isolation, particularly because getting things whilst "overseas" always takes a longer time than you would expect. We had to become "Jacks and Jills of all trades", because we didn't have the ease or familiarity of access to specialists and support that one has in a more familiar setting.

In some instances innovation has resulted from a lack of budget, which has led to a need to think of a cheaper way to solve a problem.

The point of Koru Solutions ingenuity is not necessarily brilliant thinking but more the ability to think around a problem when everyone else thinks it is unsolvable, ie. lateral thinking.

"Our great ideas do not have the ability to simply transform themselves. Someone has to do it. Success comes not from the idea, but from your commitment to it" - Weisbrod

In many respects the "culture" of Koru Solutions ingenuity can be summed up by the comments made by one of the sons of Bill Gallagher (of electric fencing fame);

"....academics are very much inclined to look at the book and read the book and say the book says it cannot be done and so don't try it, whereas .... we still have a number of people ....., who say look, to hell with the book, let's have a try anyway. And it is with that sort of attitude we have done a lot of things that according to the academics would never ever work".

Koru Solutions ingenuity is more than just innovation, it is a culture of innovative and lateral thinking. Koru Solutions ingenuity is exemplified by the following factors:

• finding new ways to solve old problems
• the back yard workshop
• "do it yourself" mentality
• "nothing is impossible!"
• "give it a go"
• "it's too expensive so I will make it myself"
• "it isn't too hard to solve"
• willingness to think outside the box
• always consider the bigger picture

Koru Solutions ingenuity is managed and implemented within an appropriate business structure to ensure positive influences.

"Nobody can be successful with only the ideas of other people, you have to add something of your own" - Bob Riley

An important survival characteristic of successful companies is that innovation must be continuous. It also means taking risks, always challenging the status quo, and realising that there can be a better way. Provided ideas are developed within a sensible development framework, innovation and ingenuity, in balance, are important factors to the success of Koru Solutions clients.

We do not claim that this is an easy task, but Koru Solutions are a very resourceful and creative lot.