Fleury Group, Altice Portugal and Liberty Seguros have been awarded the 2016 Exago Innovation Gurus Awards for their innovation, resilience and creativity. The winning teams of the initiative’s first edition have received and celebrated their trophies. Cheers to all winners!
THE RESILIENCE TO INNOVATE
Portugal Telecom is Exago’s 2016 Innovation Farmer. With a structured innovation programme that’s been evolving for almost a decade now, PT developed over 20 related communication initiatives in 2016, using both internal and external media, as well as offline communication, to involve the entire organisation.
According to Dalila Martins, Head of Organisational Communication at Altice Portugal, “Innovation is a strategic pillar stone at PT and the OPEN programme makes it clear that, in our company, this is a process everyone can and must participate in. Launched in 2009, the programme has allowed us to spread a culture of innovation within the organisation, with important contributions to work processes’ improvement, new product development and customer relationships”. Dalila adds that “Exago has proved itself an excellence partner in this challenge, since moment one. Idea Market, Exago’s platform, is an indispensable tool in harnessing and implementing the ideas suggested by our employees to answer to our shared innovation challenges.”
To acknowledge this commitment to sustainable innovation, Exago has planted 100 trees in the name of Portugal Telecom via the Canopy Project – an initiative that strengthens communities worldwide through tree planting.
HUNTING FOR BEST PRACTICES IN INNOVATION
Liberty Seguros is our 2016 Innovation Hunter for its pledge to include all business units in the quest for new creative solutions – leading internal teams towards more innovative paths, with joint initiatives, strong leadership support and efficient and original incentives.
Rui Barata, Head of Planning and Management Information Systems, explains that “Liberty has believed in this project since the beginning and in its potential to value each employee’s ideas. We are learning together that ideas, innovation and gamification are three pillars that walk side by side and definitely work well. The process of idea transformation is happening at Liberty right now, becoming part of people’s mindset and our company’s DNA”.
Liberty’s innovation team was challenged – and scored highly – in an Escape Game challenge, further boosting its creativity and curiosity.
KEEPING THE FOCUS ON RESULTS
Last but not least, Innovation Bookkeeper 2016 was awarded to Fleury Group. Fleury demonstrated consistent focus in results measurement, achieving a remarkable return on investment of its innovation initiative. Over 90 implemented ideas directly contributed to an estimated 400% ROI. The group will receive a free Exago Innovation Service, during an ideation cycle, to explore more and new ways to optimise its results.
Amanda Ferri Curti, in charge of Strategy, Innovation and New Business at Fleury, recalls that “Group Fleury’s idea generation programme is reaching 10 years of experience in 2017, six of which counting with Exago to help us promote a culture of innovation within the organisation and capture employees’ and suppliers’ ideas for incremental innovations and opportunities to improve our processes. Throughout this period, we have gathered and assessed over 20 thousand ideas with a financial return on investment of over 2 million euros”, she says.
Exago’s Innovation Gurus Awards aim to thank and recognise clients for their focus and commitment to innovation. In addition, they allow us to celebrate the power of our idea management software in bringing people together to innovate and help organisations evolve.