A radical shift designed to put clients at the centre of its business earned law firm Minter Ellison Rudd Watts the supreme award at last night’s 2014 AUT University Business School Excellence in Business Support Awards.
In response to the global financial crisis, Minter Ellison made big changes aimed at growth, finding ways to better serve its client base and identifying new business opportunities.
“Minter Ellison Rudd Watts has a clear long-term vision that defines its strategy well. The entire business revolves around a philosophy to ‘Listen, Care, Deliver,’ which is essential to excellence in business support,” says awards evaluator AUT accounting lecturer Gillian Craig.
“Although an established firm in New Zealand, in recent years it has embarked on growth and change strategies and the results clearly reflect a dynamic, successful firm.”
Minter Ellison also won the Auckland Centre for Financial Research Business $20-100 million turnover (T/O) category award.
The awards, founded by AUT Business School’s director of business relations and executive education, Sarah Trotman, are now into their ninth year. They are the only national performance measure for organisations that provide business support.
Other category winners were:
Image Centre Group under $5m T/O Management Services: Catapult
Idealog Business under $5m T/O Sales and Marketing: The Research Agency
Idealog Business under $5m T/O Technology: The Web Company
New Zealand Work Research Institute Business $5-20m T/O: Potentia
Fuji Xerox Large Business over $100m T/O: Converga
New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation Not for Profit: Sustainable Business Network
Drake New Zealand Government: Audit New Zealand. Highly commended: The New Zealand Companies Office
Drake New Zealand Government Partnerships: Ministry of Education – Vocational Pathways Programme
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Export Support: DHL Express (New Zealand) and AJ Park (joint winners)
Fuji Xerox Leadership: Franceska Banga, chief executive New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
Nevil Gibson
Fri, 03 Oct 2014
Fri, 03 Oct 2014
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Law firm turns post-crisis strategy into award winner
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