A gold award, the highest accolade from the New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation, has been awarded to Vero Insurance New Zealand.
Silver awards have been won by executive search company, Kerridge & Partners, and by Whangarei District Council.
Mike Watson, New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation chief executive says the awards recognise aspiration to world-class levels of performance and are the only business excellence awards to be fully aligned to the internationally recognised and respected US Baldrige criteria.
“Any organisation gaining one of these can honestly claim to be amongst the best in the world. The presentation of gold award has been rare in the 15-year history of the Federation. Vero is only the fourth organisation to reach this highest level.”
The award evaluation process takes around four months. Evaluators praised Vero’s world-class levels of staff engagement, performance-management systems and results being achieved in challenging market conditions.
The Baldrige Criteria is the only internationally calibrated, organisation-wide business excellence framework available in the world. Applicants are evaluated and awarded points out of 1000. score of 700 or above is required for gold.
Go to www.nzbef.org.nz for more information on the New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation.
