i-lign secures Callaghan Innovation R & D Growth Funding

i-lign secures Callaghan Innovation R & D Growth Funding

10 December 2014

i-lign, a Wellington based Hi-Tech company, is delighted to announce that it has been granted a Callaghan Innovation Research and Development grant for the next three years, with the possibility of an extension after two years potentially extending the grant out to five years.

“We have invested heavily over the last few years in R & D related to the use of information technology to support the management of complex organisations” says CEO Tony Crewdson “and this has provided a great platform to look at other business areas, including the challenge of defining and managing to new models of Public Value Management. The 20% co-funding provided under the Callaghan Innovation scheme will help us apply more resources to our R & D programme."

i-lign works with a number of public and private sector businesses and is now seeing some significant transformation outcomes happening on the back of using information technology to change institutional thinking and build highly collaborative and transparent work models. Current customers include New Zealand Post, Ports of Auckland, ACC, Statistics New Zealand, MOT, healthAlliance, National Health Board, Antipodes, Manawatu District Council, NZQA and TVNZ.

“Some of our customers are starting to really push the innovation boundaries. It’s very clear that we have active management case studies in New Zealand that are in short supply in the rest of the world. US Federal agencies, for example, are facing the same challenges we face in New Zealand, albeit on a larger scale. The R & D funding will help us research, design and develop solutions and collateral which we can test in local markets with enthusiastic, far-sighted customers, and then take those solutions, with strong NZ IP, into international markets.”

i-lign is also now working with a number of other companies, that are investing in their own right in consulting and technology-based solutions. They believe there is a place for co-developed solutions that distinguish themselves from other offerings in the market-place because of the out-of-the-box capability and the never-say-die attitude of the companies themselves. The i-lign team is already seeing benefits from teaming up with companies that work in quite different fields and bring new thinking into the mix.

“The R & D grant is fantastic for our team because it also represents a strong endorsement of the work we have carried out in New Zealand and which is now starting to gain international interest and sets us on an upward path in 2015 and beyond. There are lots of very innovative smaller companies in New Zealand and we hope that many more of them are able to secure growth funding and build a cadre of companies that contribute to the economic future of our country. After all, that was Paul Callaghan’s dream.”

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