Bühler Innovation Challenge
Using Nosco App, Bühler Group involved more than 3.300 employees in coming up with, sharing and building on ideas for the Bühler Innovation Challenge. The final four teams consisted of employees from Switzerland, India, China and Spain. The Innovation Challenge is a great example of what happens when leadership and management gets fully behind a companywide implementation of Nosco App, paired with a well coordinated event.
As CEO Calvin Greider puts it:
“What’s better than having our own employees generate new ideas for our company and our future?”
Click to see a short introduction of the teams and look at the winner being announced below.
Volvo X-Jam with Nosco App
Volvo Group recently launched X-time, a worldwide employee-driven innovation effort. As a part of the innovation effort, employees could allocate a share of their time to projects of their own personal interest.
Using Nosco App, Volvo hosted “X-Jam” to launch the initiative. The launch was truly global, involving a live feed of video and exchange of ideas between employees in Sweden, India, Brazil, US and China.
Simultaneously, all those involved used Nosco App to create, share and vote for the ideas and concepts they wanted to support and dedicate their X-time to in the future.
Volvo has been so kind to allow our blog readers to get a peek at how a global organisation like Volvo’s uses Nosco App to engage employees across time zones, cultures and continents in sharing ideas, giving them direct influence over the company’s future development. Take a look at the video.
Findings in Booz & Company’s Global Innovation 1000
The Booz & Company Global Innovation 1000 for 2011 includes 700 companies and focuses on an area that is of special interest to Nosco and all our clients: The front-end of innovation. That is where ideas are generated and chosen for further development.
So how are things at the front-end of innovation?
Out of the 700 leading global companies, 43 % felt that their process for generating ideas were ‘highly effective’. Less than that, 36 % of the companies, indicated that their process for taking ideas on to the development-stage could be called ‘highly effective’.
All in all, only 25 % of these top companies surveyed rate both parts of the front-end innovation process as being highly effective. So there’s room for improvement. Even at the top.
So the big question now is: What can one do to become a part of the 25 %? According to the survey,
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Danske Bank goes Nosco
This week, Nosco included Danske Bank to the list of clients.
Besides being the largest bank in Denmark, Danske Bank is also a leading Northern European financial group. Danske Bank Group offers a full range of banking services, with an emphasis on retail banking.
Danske Bank Group’s 21,000 employees serve 5 million customers in 15 countries.
We look forward to a long and prosperous relationship.
Allianz chooses Nosco App
Allianz UK has entered an agreement with Nosco to use Nosco App as its idea management platform for all its employees
Allianz UK has been working with idea management for many years. They have a dedicated team and a long tradition of involving employees in innovation. We are very pleased that such an experienced innovation pioneer has chosen Nosco App as the backbone of their innovation efforts.
