2012-02-24 10:17:13 // Esther Goh
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Air New Zealand will be slashing hundreds of jobs after a "disappointing" 71 percent decline in six-month earnings.
2012-01-31 11:23:51 // Esther Goh
Larger-than-life Air New Zealand chief executive Rob Fyfe has confirmed he will be leaving the airline at the end of the year after seven years at its helm.
2011-12-19 09:54:31 // Design Daily Team
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Air New Zealand has lifted the hood on the world’s largest commercially operated aircraft to be painted completely black.
2011-12-02 14:51:31 // Ben Fahy
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In typically dramatic fashion, Rico's been killed off with a flourish and a smart digital tie-in to the boardgame Cluedo.
2011-06-02 11:29:28 // Design Daily Team
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Last year New Plymouth-based manufacturer Howard Wright’s M8 Intensive Care Bed took out the top nod at the Australian International Design Awards, and with the newly announced finalist list for the 2011 awards revealed, Kiwi products have once again made the prestigious design cut.
2011-05-19 09:30:00 // Design Daily Team
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Air New Zealand has taken out one of the top honours at the Conde Nast Traveller’s 2011 Innovation and Design Awards. The airline took out the aviation category for its Kiwi-designed Skycouch Economy seat, beating out the new First Class A380 cabin designs from Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines. But the other category winners are in and of themselves well worth a mention, especially the very funky retail category winner.
2011-03-16 15:43:46 // Design Daily Team
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In 2001, the combination of 9/11 and the collapse of Ansett brought Air New Zealand to its knees. With a loss of self-belief and pride, coupled with a dislocation between employees and managers, the airline needed a transformation and it needed it fast. Rob Fyfe came on board shortly after to undertake a strategic review that focused on defining the airlines identity. There was one thing the airline had that no other airline could lay claim to—its New Zealandness. Speaking at the NZTE Better by Design CEO summit, a captivating Fyfe explains how Enzed’s personality and stories have become the design and innovation ethos for Air New Zealand and everything it does, and in the process, have turned the airline around through reinvention.
2010-11-30 10:26:21 // Design Daily Team
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Canterbury's NZi3 Innovation building, luxury Auckland apartments and Rob Fyfe are among winners celebrated at the recent 2010 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards in Wellington, attended by more than 360 guests. But the winner of the Supreme Award for Engineering Excellence was a snowier affair.
2010-11-22 12:53:55 // Rosie Bosworth
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From an airline practically hung by its heels in 2002—encumbered with an outdated fleet, an obsolete business model and employee and national morale at an all-time low—Air New Zealand has transformed to become a world-class airline with a host of awards, a sassy brand and an ever-growing following. Clearly the airline is doing something right in the organisational design and innovation space . But to get it right, forget wafty organisational jargon like ‘company mission statements’, ‘values’, and ‘strategic visions’, says the airline's chief executive Rob Fyfe.
2010-11-19 13:16:35 // Rosie Bosworth
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From an airline practically hung by its heels in 2002—encumbered with an outdated fleet, an obsolete business model and employee and national morale at an all-time low—Air New Zealand has transformed to become a world-class airline with a host of awards, a sassy brand and an ever-growing following. Clearly the airline is doing something right in the organisational design and innovation space . But to get it right, forget wafty organisational jargon like ‘company mission statements’, ‘values’, and ‘strategic visions’, says the airline's chief executive Rob Fyfe.
2010-11-12 12:06:11 // Rosie Bosworth
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It’s not what you sell, it’s the who you are and also having a powerful personality that matters. It's also not about what you design, it's about how you configure the culture behind what you design that counts. That’s according to both home-grown and international leaders of some of the worlds most successful and innovative firms, speaking at last week’s Better By Design CEO summit in Auckland.
2010-09-23 09:23:03 // Design Daily Team
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Our national carrier really is going all out in their ‘crazy about rugby’ campaign. Their recent safety video featuring a number of All Black’s delivering flight safety procedures —scattered with rugby terminology throughout—helped wipe the ordinarily glazed look off the faces of passengers. Now the airline is set to literally turn the skies black with the unveiling of their new domestic jet fleet.
2010-01-27 10:31:48 // David MacGregor
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In the notoriously competitive and difficult to differentiate airline business, Air New Zealand invests in design and experiential marketing
