Insights
The thinking
behind Tuumata.
Greer and Cedric on executing outcomes, from the boardroom to the front line, with the record to back it.
Articles and posts
Impact over tenure
Reflections on a fixed-term mandate: six council approaches brought into one regional model, with stronger foundations.
Cedric Crow · June 2026 Stabilise · Mature · Lead Read on LinkedIn Transformation
Endorsement is not execution.
Endorsement doesn’t create the conditions for change, transformation architecture does. A signature is not a system.
Greer Golding · June 2026 Lead Read on LinkedIn Infrastructure ownershipA generational solution
Ruakura Energy is live, with Waikato-Tainui owning its own electricity network: a brave idea, now critical infrastructure.
Cedric Crow · June 2026 Lead · Broader outcomes Read on LinkedIn Capital confidence
Your pipeline isn’t your delivery plan
Most organisations can size their capital programme, but not how much of it is actually deliverable.
Cedric Crow · March 2026 Mature Read on LinkedIn Delivery leadership
A year of record delivery
A record capital programme, about three times a typical year, more than 95 percent delivered, and roading back in house.
Cedric Crow · December 2025 Lead · Broader outcomes Read on LinkedIn Strategy execution
Strategic alignment as instinct
How people come to understand their part in the strategy well enough that it shapes their decisions without being told.
Cedric Crow · June 2025 Lead Read on LinkedIn Capital delivery
Why councils struggle to deliver their capital programmes
A $170 million programme against a track record of $60 to $70 million, and what changed to deliver it.
Cedric Crow · December 2024 Stabilise Read on LinkedIn Partnering
Going beyond standard development and procurement
How Ruakura moved faster by widening its partnership network, with a long-term lens on generational outcomes for iwi.
Cedric Crow · June 2023 Mature · Broader outcomes Read on LinkedInNothing here yet.
From the field
Work in progress, as it happened.
On the record
Coverage and public documents
- NZ Herald · Mar 2025Community priorities and infrastructure developmentCedric
- SunLive · Mar 2025Building Waihī Beach’s new library and community hubCedric
- SunLive · Nov 2024Starting construction on the Ōmokoroa roundaboutCedric
- NZ Herald · Jul 2024Keeping traffic moving through the Ōmokoroa/SH2 upgradeCedric
- SunLive · May 2024Community participation in local governanceGreer
- RNZ · Dec 2023Opening up how council decisions are madeGreer
- NZ Herald · Dec 2023Opening up how council decisions are made (also reported)Greer
- SunLive · Nov 2023Procurement that supports delivery and local capabilityCedric
- SunLive · Sep 2023Tourism funding to restore community-built assetsCedric
- NZ Herald · Aug 2023Representation and elected-member vacanciesGreer
- SunLive · Aug 2023Shaping the future of a jointly owned regional parkCedric
- Ruakura Superhub · May 2022Tangata whenua involvement in infrastructure namingCedric
- Tainui Group Holdings · Oct 2021Environmental commitments in infrastructure deliveryCedric
- Ruakura Superhub · Jul 2021Infrastructure project team and delivery updateCedric
- SunLive · Nov 2019Statutory powers in compliance practiceGreer
- Waipā District Council · May 2017Accessibility audit with disability advocatesCedric
- Published policyOfficial information policyGreer
Ruakura Superhub, Tainui Group Holdings and Waipā District Council items are project or council publications, not independent journalism.