NZBN benefits for business

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The accountant is introducing how important it is for his clients to have an NZBN

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"As an accountant, I’m making sure all my clients are using their New Zealand Business Number."

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The accountant and the farmer are chatting and laughing together. Close up shot of the farmer smiling. Close up shot of The Fix and Fogg employee smiling.

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"Your NZBN holds your key business info, like trading name and phone number."

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NZBN website showing the Nate’s Nuts limited profile

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"So you don’t have to keep repeating yourself."

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Someone is putting Fix and Fogg jars in a box

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"That means less paperwork"

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The Fix and Fogg employee is outside with his family. He feeds his daughter with bread and some Fix and Fogg peanut butter.

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"– so you can spend more time, doing what you love."

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Carlo is sitting against the windows. He is sketching and playing with his cat in the same time.

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"Using the NZBN is free for all businesses,"

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Close up shot of Carlo sketching with a pencil.

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"including self-employed people."

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The accountant is talking as his arm is resting on the Jones’ letterbox

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"Over 675,000 businesses already have one."

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Close up shot of the Jones’ letterbox. The farmer is pointing out something to the accountant. The accountant is holding a NZBN with his fingers. He then put it in his pocket. Final blue screen with the NZBN info "Ask your accountant about your NZBN today. nzbn.govt.nz"

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"So keep up with the Jones’s and make sure you ask your accountant about your NZBN today."

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A man is shown laughing and then the shot cuts to a Master Plumbers logo. The man is then shown sitting in a meeting room and his name appears across the screen – Greg Wallace, CEO Master Plumbers, Gasfitters & Drainlayers NZ Inc.

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Greg: Hi, I'm Greg Wallace, I'm CEO of Master Plumbers. I've been in the construction industry for 30 years.

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A woman is shown laughing and then the scene cuts to her sitting in a meeting room. Her name appears on the screen, Melanie McIver, CEO, Brick and Blocklayers Federation of NZ.

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Melanie: I'm Melanie McIver and I'm the Chief Executive of the Brick and Blocklayers Federation.

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Melanie is shown looking over some plans with a female colleague.

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Melanie: As a member based organisation, it's very important for us to be able to actually communicate effectively with our members, and if you don't have that ability to communicate with your membership, they don't know that you're doing business with them still.

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A ‘Ministry of Plumbing’ car is shown parked on the street. Two men wearing a Ministry of Plumbing polo shirts get out of the vehicle. They then get equipment out of the back of the vehicle and walk down the street carrying their gear. The scene cuts back to Greg talking in his office.

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Greg: Our guys work in the trade every day and we need to access information really quickly, and being able to easily let other businesses know what organisation they're from was a real challenge for our members.

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Melanie is shown talking with her colleague and then cuts to her talking in the meeting room. Melanie and her colleague are shown walking down the street wearing high visibility vests and hard hats. They then stand in front of a construction site together looking over plans.

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Melanie: The really good thing about an NZBN is that you actually know who you're doing business with, you know the legal entity's actual name, rather than what they think that they're called, or what they've told you that they're called.

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Greg is shown in his office shaking hands with a Ministry of Plumbing plumber. The video then cuts to Greg talking in the meeting room.

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Greg: Now with the NZBN it's really efficient for our members to be able to update their information in one place and know that goes across all the agencies and other businesses, and that means that our members are more efficient on the job and spending less time in the office doing paperwork that isn't required.

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A close-up shot of a plumber wearing a Ministry of Plumber polo shirt. The screen then cuts to him working with his tools and equipment. It then cuts back to Greg talking in his office.

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Greg: We want plumbers to save time and money, and reduce their processes. The NZBN offers all those services in one easy platform.

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The screen fades to read “Find out how the NZBN can become an asset for your business” and then shows the NZBN logo (more business, less work) and the website – nzbn.govt.nz.

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Taco is sketching something on a paper sheet. Close up shot of Taco focusing on his work.

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“It can be a bit sketchy, proving my credibility as a sole trader.”

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Close up shot of Taco’s right arm sketching. Close up shot of Taco’s hands sketching.

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“As a freelancer, I have to ensure my clients have total confidence in dealing with me.”

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As Taco is finishing sketching, we discover what Taco was drawing. It’s NZBN.

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“And that’s why I have a New Zealand Business Number.”

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Close up shot of Taco’s hand using his computer mouse Taco’s computer screen showing his NZBN. Taco is working on photoshop editing some graphics.

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“It’s free and shows all other businesses that I’m the real deal.”

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Taco introducing his work to the client. The client has his left hand on Taco’s printed work. Taco is explaining his work to the clients, more of his work his displayed on the background wall.

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“Which gives others more confidence in dealing with small businesses like mine.”

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Close up shot of the clients.

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“And now that I don’t need to spend so much time explaining my business creds,”

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Shot from above of Taco writing the modifications he has to make.

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“I can continue putting pen to paper for all the right reasons.”

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Someone grabs a bottle of Gin that Taco designed. Blue screen – NZBN info (as per audio).

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“Show them you’re the real deal with your free NZBN.”

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A man is shown walking towards a building and then through a door into an office. A Centrix logo is featured on a glass wall. A man is then shown sitting in his office and his name appears on the screen, Mark Rowley, Operations Director, Centrix.

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Mark: My name's Mark and I’m the Operations Director for Centrix. We're a credit bureau, and our clients use us to assess risk for companies they wish to do business with. We get data from hundreds of different sources and our job is to put it all together, and give them back something that they can use to assess risk.

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Mark is shown walking through the Centrix office and then sitting down at his desk and typing on his computer.

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Mark: Prior to the NZBN being available, we got data from many different sources and it can be difficult to match. An example could be — we get data on Joe's Boat Yard or J. Smith Boat Yard, and it's pretty difficult for us to establish whether that's the same entity or not. But with the NZBN, it's one number, one business.

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Mark is shown looking up a business on the NBZN Register.

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A woman is shown sitting in the Centrix office and her name appears on the screen - Monkia Lacey, GM Sales and Marketing, Centrix.

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Monika: As a business, you may on occasion need to apply for credit, and if you do it's a good idea to have an NZBN. This means that we're able to link information more accurately on your business because we have one unique identifier that's associated to your company, and this in turn enables your credit providers to make a more informed lending decision.

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Monika and Mark walk into a meeting room and sit down and look over some documents together.

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Mark: Looking to the future, we'll use the NZBN right throughout our organisation. We'll use it in our billing and finance functions it'll make us so much more efficient. We think it's going to transform our business.

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The screen fades to read ‘Find out how the NZBN can become an asset for your business’ and then shows the NZBN logo (more business, less work) and the NZBN website – nzbn.govt.nz.

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A pan shot of Auckland city, zooming in to focus on the Ricoh office building. Cut to two men walking down internal stairs inside the Ricoh office, chatting as they walk. They then walk past the reception desk and are greeted by a woman walking towards them to shake their hands. The next shot is of Michael Ishak, Project and Programme Manager, Ricoh NZ sitting down in an open plan office area. His name and title appears in writing at the bottom of the screen.

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Michael: Hi, I'm Michael Ishak a Project and Programme Manager at Ricoh, New Zealand.

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Michael is talking to the same man and woman from the previous shot. They are standing by a window, looking at printing technology. Cut to a shot of a printing machine with the name “maker bot”.

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Michael:  I manage different internal programmes and projects aiming at increasing our customer satisfaction levels.

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Michael is sitting at his desk in front of two computer screens, looking at the NZBN website, searching for his NZBN business details. The next shot is a close up of the keyboard as he types. The visual switches back to him entering his details into the NZBN Register where he is typing ‘Ricoh New Zealand’ into the ‘Search for a business’ section of the website. The camera then pans back up to a side view of him sitting at his desk.

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Michael: Previously we've sourced data from various registers about our customers and their businesses.

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Close up of Michael sitting alone in an open plan office area.

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This actually was quite a time consuming process, and could lead to a lot of inaccuracies.

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Close up of Michael’s hand and another female’s hand, as he shows her one of the printing machines. Then the shot cuts back to Michael sitting in the open plan office again. You then see Michael walking through the office with the same man in the previous shot. They are walking past a printing machine towards an area with other colleagues in it. The next shot is Michael again sitting in the open plan area and the next shot is a close up of him talking with the same woman and man in the previous shots. The woman is smiling and nodding her head in acknowledgment of what he is saying.

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Michael: With NZBN, we have a single source of truth that can provide us with reliable information quickly, so we can get on with adding value to our customers.

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Close up shot of the other man, who is Ian Wallis, Manager, Ricoh New Zealand. He is sitting in the same open plan office area as Michael was previously. His name and title are written along the bottom of the screen.

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Ian: Customer experience is very important for us here at Ricoh.

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Shot of Michael and the woman from earlier looking at a small piece of machinery in Michael’s hand. The camera zooms in to the piece of machinery, which he is rotates, showing the woman how it works. The camera then pans back to Ian, who is once again sitting in the open plan office space.

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Ian: We're onboarding customers all the time, and we're always looking for ways to make that more efficient and less painful for our customers. We see the NZBN as allowing us to do that.

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Ian is sitting in the open plan office area, then the shot cuts away to a tight shot of Michael and the woman talking once again. You then see Ian walking through a room with a number of printers, where the camera zooms in on colourful A3 documents being printed out, which he then picks up and starts reading. 

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Ian: As we move to the future, the NZBN will allow us to simplify our processes, so we can deliver a greater customer experience.

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The images fade away and cut to a blank screen with grey writing, which says ‘Find out how the NZBN can become an asset for your business”.

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A teal-coloured screen with the NZBN and Xero logos animates to reveal an introductory message, reading: “How Xero is using the NZBN to streamline business processes”. The coloured screen fades to show a man standing in the Xero office space. A sign in the background reveals Xero’s positioning statement: Beautiful Accounting Software. A teal bar appears along the bottom of the screen, displaying the man’s name and job title: Grant Anderson, Xero Head of Government Relations. Grant appears to speak to an individual off-camera. The teal bar fades away.

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Grant: The New Zealand Business Number is going to have a hugely positive impact on Xero customers particularly.

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The scene cuts to a woman standing in a light and bright office space. To her left there’s a shelving unit with greenery and plants. A teal bar appears along the bottom of the screen, displaying the woman’s name and job title: Sarah Blackie, Xero Head of Commercial and Procurement. Sarah appears to speak to an individual off-camera. The teal bar fades away.

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Sarah: The NZBN will benefit both small and large enterprises in New Zealand. It's really important that a business, no matter what size it is, has accurate information about other businesses they're engaging with, whether it's a customer or a supplier.

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The scene cuts to an animation of a delivery truck driving through a town or city. The van is branded “Pete’s Portable Portobellos”. Each commercial building Pete drives past has a floating number above it, showing the NZBN of this business. Pete’s van also has his own NZBN floating above it. The van pulls up outside a store and the visual cuts to Pete delivering a basket of mushrooms to a chef. Pete and the chef both have the NZBN of their business floating above them. One of the mushrooms bounces out of Pete’s basket and falls onto the ground. The chef smiles.

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Sarah: Making sure for example in the procurement area that we have the right supplier details so that we are paying them on time, so that we understand who they are, understand that they are a legal entity and that, actually, we're paying the right party.

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The scene cuts back to Sarah, speaking in the bright office space. This time, the frame is tighter, showing Sarah’s face close up. As Sarah talks, keywords appear on the screen. These read “accurate information” and “located in one trustworthy source”.

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Sarah: It's really important that the information that you're working with is accurate, so having all that information associated with the NZBN being located in one trustworthy source – it’s there and you can rely on it - then you don’t have to rely on someone else telling you who they are. You know it's accurate.

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The frame cuts back out, to show Sarah from the elbows up.

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Sarah: So at the moment we are able to tag a vendor or supplier with that NZBN number. In the future we'll be able to integrate it fully and have all that data associated with it linked to the vendor.

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The scene cuts back to Grant in his office space. As Grant talks, a quote appears on the screen, readomg: “eInvoicing will save NZ businesses billions of dollars a year… and we couldn’t do it without the NZBN”.

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Grant: One of the things we're really excited about with the NZBN is electronic invoicing. The New Zealand Business Number is a cornerstone part of the electronic invoicing standard in New Zealand. Electronic invoicing is going to save our customers, and New Zealanders as a whole, billions of dollars a year in improved efficiencies and we couldn't do it without the NZBN.

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The scene cuts to a visual of the exterior of the Xero office. The building is dark grey, with white window and door frames. Three blue Xero signs frame the main doorway. The visual then cuts back to Grant talking in the office. Another quote appears on screen, reading: “Correctly identifying the businesses you work with saves time and improves accuracy.”

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Grant: One of the great things that the NZBN does is enables credit ratings agencies to correctly identify the businesses that are dealing with. Xero can then take that credit rating information and surface it up so that our customers benefit by getting easy credit ratings for their customers and suppliers.

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The scene cuts back to Sarah in her office space. As she speaks, a quote appears on the screen, reading: “These is no downside to using the NZBN.”

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Sarah: There is no downside. I think it's one of those things that businesses have to say to themselves this is something that's really worth my time and if I do it and if all the other small businesses around New Zealand do it, and large businesses, then it would make a huge impact to the way we engage with each other.

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The shot pans from left to right across the exterior of the Xero building, showing the main entrance door. The scene cuts to Grant back in his office. The frame is tighter, showing Grant from the shoulders up. As he speaks, a quote appears on screen, which says: “The NZBN will mean organisations spend less time doing paperwork and more time doing business.” The visual cuts back out to show Grant from the waist up. As he talks, keywords appear on screen. These say “grow business networks”, “opportunities for innovation” and “transform the way we do business”.

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Grant: If you're thinking about implementing the New Zealand Business Number I would say just go ahead and do it. It's really good for small businesses because it's going to enable greater efficiency. It's going to mean they spend less time doing paperwork and more time doing the things they really love and need to do. As more businesses start using the New Zealand business number it's going to grow their business networks it's going to provide a great opportunity for innovation in the economy and it's going to fundamentally transform the way we do business in New Zealand.

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The scene fades to a grey box, with a message reading, “Find out how the NZBN can become an asset for your business at nzbn.govt.nz”. The Better for Business and newzealand.govt.nz logos appear in the bottom left. In the top right corner, there’s a white triangle, with the NZBN logo inside it, including the tagline “more business, less work”.

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Wide shot starting low and panning upwards, inside the glass atrium of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) offices. Next, there’s a close up shot outside the MBIE office of the large stone MBIE sign. A man (Neville Johnson) walks towards the office building with a folder under his arm. He goes up the steps and into the building. There are other people walking around on the street, outside the building. The next shot is a close up of Neville, sitting at a table in a meeting room with two pot plants behind him. The words “Neville Johnson, Director Enabling Services, NZ Government Procurement and Property” appear at the bottom of the screen.

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Neville: I'm Neville Johnson, I work in the Government Procurement and Property branch. I work as a Director focussed on enabling services and systems, and ways of doing things for the branch to make them more effective in what they do.

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Neville is walking towards the lifts inside the MBIE building. The reception desk is visible with the announcement board above it in the background.  The next shot is Neville sitting at his desk inside the office. He is looking at his computer, using the mouse. There are three other office workers in the background. The camera then zooms in very close to Neville’s face. The next shot shows him back in the same meeting room as before. The shot then jumps back to him at his desk and a close up of him typing and using his mouse, before it shows Neville looking at the computer screen again, where he is looking at a webpage about ‘Writing a procurement plan’.

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Neville: We're quite inefficient sometimes with how we go about things, and we have very manual ways of doing things. And I think that adds this unnecessary administrative burden for Government particularly with the way that we procure things, and a key part of procurement is understanding how we can make those processes much more efficient, how we can take cost out of the equation for us, but also cost out of the equation for suppliers and the different organisations.

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Neville is walking through the kitchen on one of the office floors, towards a meeting area with a number of large sofa-type seats. A woman enters. Neville and the woman smile at each other and then shake hands. The shot then changes to Neville sitting in the office with the table and two pot plants again. Next, there’s a shot of Neville and the woman sitting at a table in the kitchen meeting area looking at a laptop, engaged in a discussion. There’s a close up of the woman and then a close up of Neville, before the shot switches back to Neville alone in the meeting room again.

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Neville: The NZBN is the first major step in the digitisation journey for New Zealand. There's this key opportunity that presents itself to us and that is around more efficient international trade, and it provides us an opportunity to have that much more effective, simple, easy trade with those different nations, so our major trading partners, but also those other nations that we want to increase our level of trade with.

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The shot is a close up of Neville’s hands, using the mouse touch pad on his laptop. The camera pans to a close up of the NZBN webpage on Neville’s laptop screen. The shot then switches back to a close up of him talking to the woman again, cutting back to Neville sitting in the meeting room with the pot plants. Neville is then filmed standing outside on a balcony, looking over at the Beehive with other buildings and trees in the background. The last scene is Neville sitting back in the meeting room with the pot plants.

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Neville: The automation of procurement provides the opportunity for professionals to actually focus on the key things around procurement which is the relationship with the supplier, focussing on moving towards a more innovative, creative relationship where we can drive better outcomes, better products, better services. And the NZBN is helping that to happen.

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Fades out to a white screen with grey writing which says “Find out how the NZBN can become an asset for your business”. And then switches to the NZBN logo and website address nzbn.govt.nz.

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The screen is blue and writing appears across the screen reading ‘How Stats NZ is using the NZBN to build a roadmap of opportunities’. The NZBN and Stats NZ logos appears in the corner of the screen. The screen then cuts to a man is sitting in an office talking and his name appears across the screen – Kelvin Watson, Stats NZ, Deputy Government Statistician and Deputy Chief Executive, Data Services.

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Kelvin: Stats NZ’s vision is unleashing the power of data to change lives and part of how we do that is through linking data sets and the more data you can link together the more information you are likely to get out of that and the NZBN is actually providing quite a key linking variable for us to link those data-sets.

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A message appears on the screen as Kelvin talks saying ‘The NZBN provides key linking variable’.
The screen pans down a Stats NZ sign that reads ‘Unleashing the power of data to change lives’.

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A woman is shown sitting in an office and talking and her names appears across the screen – Sarah Minson, Stats NZ General Manager – Customer Support and Development.

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Sarah: When we first started to look at NZBN I think there was a range of opinions across the organisation. We are a data agency so the NZBN is a perfect opportunity for us to link information across business.

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A message appears on the screen while Sarah is talking reading ‘The NZBN is a perfect opportunity for us to link information across the business’.

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Sarah: So a lot of us saw huge opportunity but some of the areas that we were less familiar with was how might we use it in procurement and how we might we use this in areas like finance so that was more of a challenge for us to think through the opportunities. To do that we've got the NZBN team in to help us. So what we've got is a whole lot of things that we want to do with the NZBN and we've put that together in a roadmap for ourselves and it is both short term opportunities and some longer-term opportunities things that are quite quick and easy to implement and things that will take a little bit longer.

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A message appears across the screen while Sarah is talking reading ‘Put together a roadmap identify short and long-term opportunities’.

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Sarah: So we had a register of almost all businesses in New Zealand and by having the NZBN on our register it allows us to link information across government more seamlessly. The NZBN is going to make life easier for Stats NZ because it's going to provide us some efficiency gains. It's also going to enable us to provide new services to business. The NZBN will help eliminate manual processes. If businesses can update their core business information on the NZBN register and Stats NZ can consume that information automatically into our systems.

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A message appears across the screen while Sarah is talking reading ‘The NZBN will help eliminate manual processes’.

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Sarah: NZBN is more than just a number, it’s the opportunity for us to transform the way we interact with business. The advice we would give to other agencies in terms of implementing the NZBN would be to talk to the NZBN team. They have a lot of experience about the benefits of NZBN and how other agencies have implemented it.

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A message appears across the screen while Sarah is talking reading “The NZBN is more than just a number – it’s an opportunity to transform the way we interact with other businesses”.

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Kelvin appears on the screen again talking to the camera in the Stats NZ office.

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Kelvin: The NZBN will definitely make it easier. Previously we've used other numbers (IRD numbers, that sort of thing) but NZBN for the first time provides a single unique identifier for each business

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A message appears on the screen while Kelvin is talking reading “The NZBN will definitely makes things easier”. The screen fades out to a black screen reading “Find out how the NZBN can become an asset for your business at nzbn.govt.nz. The NZBN logo, the Better for Business logo and the NewZealand.govt.nz logo are also displayed on the screen.