How KSB implemented a company-wide cultural change with the digital innovation platform by ITONICS
Global connection of employees and the establishment of an integrated innovation process
Ensuring a sustainable competitive edge in an increasingly digital landscape requires proactivity and informed decision making. Companies need to tear down internal knowledge barriers in order to react to any changes in the market, to detect innovation potential and to adapt strategies accordingly.
In order to break down internal knowledge silos, KSB, a leading supplier of pumps, valves, and related systems, implemented the innovation platform iport in 2017. Today there are over 7,043 active users and more than 1,100 ideas have been submitted. Based on the ITONICS innovation platform, all employees worldwide can actively participate in the idea and innovation management.
Following the digitalization of the idea management, the platform was expanded at the beginning of 2019 in order to include the components ‘Corporate Foresight’ and ‘Competitor Analysis’, and has since formed the digital foundation of a KSB-wide cultural change towards an agile performance engine.
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A digital and accelerated idea and innovation process involving all organizational entities
Our biggest challenge was the connection and knowledge sharing between our employees and the establishment of a more integrated process. KSB reacted accordingly by breaking down traditional organizational structures partnering with the solution provider ITONICS.
- Frank Udo Kimm, Head of Idea Management, KSB
KSB is a leading supplier of pumps, valves, and related systems. These are used in a large variety of applications ranging from building services, industry and water transport to waste water treatment and power plant processes. Founded in Frankenthal, Germany, in 1871, the company has a presence on all continents with its own sales and marketing organizations, manufacturing facilities and service operations. KSB employs more than 15,000 people.
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