From next month the NZ Quality Foundation becomes the NZ Business Excellence Foundation.
According to CEO Sue Wright, it’s part of global trend recognising that the time has come for quality to give way to business excellence.
The Foundation’s annual awards are now known as the National Business Excellence Awards, but are still based on the prestigious Baldrige criteria for performance excellence.
Organisational purpose is playing an increasingly important role in helping New Zealand organisations navigate economic uncertainty, organisational change and evolving workforce expectations, new research from Hum Consulting, finds.
Aerospace researcher Dr Christina Dunker will join Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) in January 2027 to lead the university’s aerospace ambitions in one of Canterbury’s fastest-growing sectors.
Rising living costs, economic uncertainty and rapid technological change are reshaping how New Zealanders think, spend and live, a new report has found.
