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CEO Study Tour 2010

In September 2010 Better by Design took 25 of New Zealand’s top CEOs on a mission to Silicon Valley to visit a range of organizations to see how they operated, looked and felt.

In four days of dissecting some of the hottest companies in the world the tour members struck gold - an emerging consensus on how design thinking translates into 13 digit bottom lines. It's not a foolproof recipe for success, but the right ingredients needed for the mix are becoming increasingly obvious.

What goes on tour mustn't stay on tour

Better by Design took twenty-five of the nation’s top CEOs on a mission to Silicon Valley, and confirmed Google, Facebook, and Mozilla didn’t just ...

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Wisdom from the hospital bed – creating creative spaces

You’ve probably seen pictures of Google’s offices by now. The candy dispensers, the beanbags, the pool tables. But that’s just them, right?

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Cause and effect

The future of our world is a design issue, and for better or worse it is mostly in the hands of big businesses just like the one you hope to create.

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Culture club

Everyone knows the best way to motivate yourself to get fit is to surround yourself with people keen to do the same.

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