Case study
Animation studio's computers bring doodles to life
Key innovation: Huhu Studios uses New Zealand's reputation as an international leader in digital animation to go from producing a TV series for local consumption to making feature films for an American distributor
The good oil on IT
Key innovation: Australian Worldwide Exploration puts IT to work to help it find buyers for oil from the offshore Tui field, which in the first year of production was worth about $2 billion
Talk is cheap at Flight Centre
Key innovation: Getting voice and data services from one provider over one network will let Flight Centre tap savings of $500,000 a year on its phone bill.
Pipe-maker gets data flowing
Key innovation: An intranet smoothes the workflow and solves communications problems for a company with widely dispersed operations and hundreds of staff, eliminating paper-based systems in the process.
The new DIY
Key innovation: Two Wellington entrepreneurs have rocketed to success in just 18 months - doing for manufacturing what desktop publishing did for the printing industry.
THL: New business, old idea
Key innovation: Achieving success in today's business environment depends on many factors such as speed to market, agility and protecting your technology investment. How has Tourism Holdings Limited (THL) embraced changed and used it to its advantage? By thinking of the customer first.
Woodford House: the school business
Key innovation: A close working relationship between Havelock North girls' school Woodford House and its IT supplier Glenn Cook Technologies ensures state-of-the-art systems are available for teaching and administrative purposes.
Kristin School computes
Key innovation: An independent Auckland school is providing students with a fully immersive ICT experience and has the metrics to prove the policy's educational value.
Digiweb goes green
Key innovation: Christchurch web hosting company Digiweb can claim to have one of the greenest data centres in the country after being officially declared a carbon-neutral business.
Ponoko - The new DIY
Key innovation: Two Wellington entrepreneurs have rocketed to success in just 18 months - doing for manufacturing what desktop publishing did for the printing industry.
Icebreaker: sales away
Key innovation: A fast growing Kiwi company is driving its overseas sales thanks to a 'whole company' approach to rebuilding its infrastructure."The best type of technology solution for me is something that no one sees and no one knows about because everything works, and that's what we've installed."
Aquaflow Bionomic - Black Gold
Key innovation: Recasting 'peak oil' from problem to opportunity has opened entirely new markets for a New Zealand biofuel pioneer.
TSB Bank gives rivals run for their money
Key innovation: Using technology to provide top-quality service hands New Plymouth's TSB Bank yet another customer satisfaction award ahead of its rivals.
WHK Group - Scale matters
Key innovation: A unifying IT strategic roadmap has led six formerly independent accounting firms to create nationwide scale. The result - one of the country's best accounting talents and one of the world's best practice is now available in six provincial centres.
StarNow - Who're the stars now?
Key innovation: Creating an online 'meet market' has demolished the barriers between media companies seeking talent, and models and actors seeking jobs. With 750,000 members, StarNow is now a worldwide business, run entirely from Wellington.
MotorWeb - Making e-government pay
Key innovation: MotorWeb seized the emerging e-government opportunity to create a company that's grown 100% year-on-year since 2001 – and now shows export potential.
Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind - Sticking to the vision
Key innovation: Helping its members, not running computer systems. Now there's a breakthrough idea from the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind's ICT department, which is on the way to outsourcing its business computing.
Jericho - Knocking down the server room walls
Key innovation: When Jericho faced spectacular growth, it needed to rebuild its computing model. The result is equally spectacular.
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