Michael Howden

Digital | Resilience | Inclusion | Consultant @BecaGroup | Trustee @2020TrustNZ | Father. Views are my own.

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@metlinkwgtn fancy screens - why the upgrade? You check the accessibility of the colour contrast? #IDPD

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Wife: “I actually won’t buy @UGG s again because of all of this packaging” #ZeroWaste

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Want to use your data and insights skills to help everyone in Aotearoa have safe water? Taumata Arowai, our new water services regulator, is recruiting for Data + Insight Analysts (including one Senior Analyst) and we’d love to hea…https://t.co/el8KcjgEBJ https://t.co/J22U4BiKbz

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Want to use your data and insights skills to help Aotearoa have safe water? Taumata Arowai, our new water services regulator, is recruiting 2x Data + Insight Analysts (including one Senior) and we’d love to hear from you!

Be a par…https://t.co/JWfzuDfDRl https://t.co/J22U4BiKbz

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Great start to 2022: Diving right into work to improve our water data ecosystem in Aotearoa. Then diving into Wellington Habour after my lunchtime run, having checked the water quality on Land Air Water Aotearoa (LAWA), a great exi…https://t.co/pZn8LZLnyl https://t.co/sM14rYIaRp

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On Christmas Eve I printed the first complete draft of my thesis. Thank you to everyone who’s supported me along the way! Great way to wrap up the year. I’m enjoying some time relaxing with the family over summer, and then everything 2022 has in store! https://t.co/TWdvYcxzh1

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Next week we’ll be launching the TAIAO community platform to bring together data and environmental scientists and practitioners to help solve some of the critical problems we currently face. https://t.co/K5Mi9kmtjg

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Thank you Tina Porou for your presentation at the Water Asset Management Forum -  you helped refine my understanding of Te Mana O Te Wai, as a concept that empahises relationships, partnership and participation. I am interested to how this concept might h…https://t.co/bS2mowMONa

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While new beginning are exciting, it is good to reflect on our whakataukī:
Ka hoki kōmuri ngā whakaaro, kia anga whakamua te titiro
Turn our minds to the past to determine our way forward
I'm grateful for all of you who have shared their experience and wi…https://t.co/JzkkH8hY1A

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After six years, I'm finishing my latest journey at Beca. It's been exciting to be part of the development of Beca's digital products and services teams, contributing to a range of meaningful projects and instigating a range of initiatives. I've worked wi…https://t.co/LOUhmGBcSy

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Are you interested in using systems thinking in regulation? On Oct 26th I'm running a workshop to give people hands-on practice applying systems thinking to leverage feedback and emergent behaviour in a regulatory context. For more…https://t.co/E5tKZvJSGj https://t.co/MuSYNEEUvI

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Check out the burger dashboard Michael Green from
@BecaGroup's Data Analytics Team put together for @WellyOnaPlate:
https://t.co/zuNNJnunfw
Talk to us about making your data look his delicious (maybe over a burger!)
#WOAP #BurgerWelly #EveryDayBetter #DataVisualisation

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.⁦@coffeeufeel⁩ How’d you know?

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How does it change our mindsets to think about data as infrastructure as the NZ Government Chief Data Steward proposes? https://t.co/flsV9VQMNt

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3 ways to achieve sustained improvements from initiatives:
1) Align initiatives with your Purpose
2) Pick initiatives which benefit employees
3) Coach employees to enable small wins to increase their motivation and engagement
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An article I wrote bringing together 2 passions of mine: #Running and #Data - 8 Lessons on Using Data from Marathon Training https://t.co/FyCXwNHeMs

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Important to reflect on the 3 questions of the daily scrum lest we become stand-up zombies! https://t.co/gfHBcwlGlB

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PokenoGo? Auckland looks to ‘gamify’ public transport: https://t.co/aDjfp4lhxD

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I don't envy the decisions to be made to rescue the 13 boys trapped in a cave in Thailand. But have they considered it might be easier to get 13 @NitendoSwitch in and wait out the Monsoons, than to get 13 boys out now?

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Interesting antidote to all of the hype around Blockchain and a reminder not get too carried away with technology and forgot about the problems we’re trying to solve https://t.co/b0OgGH2s27