2011-06-27 12:54:19 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
NZTE’s Better By Design programme has produced some outstanding results when it comes to transforming businesses. Engineering company Milmeq, formerly known as Realcold Milmech group, is one of the more recent benefactors of the programme, undergoing a complete visual identity and name change at the hands of Dow Design.
2011-03-10 09:54:17 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
As the director of transformation at brand marketing agency Liquid, Marty Neumeier is a recognised thought leader in brand strategy, innovation, and design. He’s on a mission to ‘incite business revolution by unleashing the power of design thinking.’ Watch as he unleashes his mission at the NZTE Better by Design CEO summit.
2011-02-23 09:59:17 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
It’s not hard to come up with good ideas. As a designer, the challenge is in building a belief within yourself that you can make the idea work. So says Dick Powell, chairman of global creative, design and advertising organisation D&AD. Speaking at the NZTE Better by Design CEO Summit, he discuses the strong link between design and innovation.
2010-12-01 10:35:17
// Idealog #30: now
While Pumpkin Patch
won Supreme Award
for International
Business at the New
Zealand International
Business Awards
2010, it wasn’t
the only Kiwi
company feted on
Oct 13. The awards
celebrate New
Zealand business
success worldwide
and recognise
professional
excellence and
innovative practice,
so here are the
winners in each of
the categories
2010-11-25 11:28:46 // Deirdre Robert
// The Idealog Blog
ngrid Fetell is a human factors specialist at design and innovation consulting firm IDEO. In a nutshell, her job is to bring human-centred thinking to design challenges in a wide range of industries. She’s big on design and delight—in other words, how design can create positive emotion. We caught up with her on her recent visit to Enzed as part of the NZTE Better By Design CEO summit, where she spoke to the audience about factoring culture into the design process. She tells us why she’s drawn to design as a change agent and shares her favourite Kiwi designs.
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From an airline practically hung by its heels in 2002—encumbered with an outdated fleet, an obsolete business model and employee and national morale at an all-time low—Air New Zealand has transformed to become a world-class airline with a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
// The Idealog Blog
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.
2010-11-04 08:22:01 // Deirdre Robert
// The Idealog Blog
When Alan Webber—the co-founder of uber-successful business magazine Fast Company—gives a talk on design, don’t expect any fancy PowerPoints. In fact, don’t expect a PowerPoint at all. A cardinal rule at Fast Company, he says, is that speeches aren’t allowed to utilise PowerPoint—even if the talk is about design integration. But that’s just fine because Webber’s impressive professional track record stands him strong on his own, and the moment he opened his mouth as part of the NZTE Better by Design CEO summit yesterday, he had the audience captivated.
2010-10-28 14:57:56 // Design Daily Team
// The Idealog Blog
This year's NZTE CEO Summit is all about design integration—one of the most significant transformational tools in global business. Companies that embed design create new opportunities, new markets and new value. The summit will explore the theory and practice of design integration, learning from global exemplars, and Design Daily will be there pass on all the inside knowledge and tools from the summit. Stay tuned...
