“Every individual and organisation has had to demonstrate their successful leadership and planning, customer and market focus, provision of business support, evaluation, improvement and business results,” he says.
“All entries go through vigorous evaluation process that is overseen by the New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation, including evaluators from our own Management Department at AUT Business School. Excellence is then assessed using the international Baldrige criteria.”
Deloitte, NZ Management magazine’s longstanding partner in the Top 200 Awards, took out the award for Large Business Specific Offering for its Deloitte Fast 50.
The awards gala dinner was also the first ever Be.Accessible accredited event in New Zealand. Be.Accessible provides businesses with programmes that enable them to become more accessible to all audiences.
Among other things, AUT Business School provided NZ Sign Language interpreters, and included braillised messaging on all tickets and programmes.
