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Idealog—in the ideas business

  • Snow, planes, sustainability and luxury honored at engineering awards

    2010-11-30 10:26:21 // // The Idealog Blog
    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.
  • Rob Fyfe on why business design is about personality, story telling and instilling realness

    2010-11-22 12:53:55 // // The Idealog Blog
    From an airline practically hung by its heels in 2002—encumbered with an outdated fleet, an obsolete business model and employee and national morale at an all-time low—Air New Zealand has transformed to become a world-class airline with a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.
  • Rob Fyfe on why business design is about personality, story telling and instilling realness

    2010-11-19 13:16:35 // // The Idealog Blog | 1 comment
    From an airline practically hung by its heels in 2002—encumbered with an outdated fleet, an obsolete business model and employee and national morale at an all-time low—Air New Zealand has transformed to become a world-class airline with a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.