“innov8 gives us the platform to connect, collaborate and innovate across geographic boundaries.“
An innovation program called innov8, seeks to tap the intelligence of employees to find efficiencies and sustainability in day to day operations, but on a large strategic scale as well. Targeted campaigns encourage employee involvement with support from top management and creative branding and marketing for each campaign. “innov8 gives us the platform to connect, collaborate and innovate across geographic boundaries,” Joe Locandro, CIO of CLP has stated.
Joe Locandro, the Director of Group IT at CLP, decided to implement a corporate web-based innovation platform for employees to collect their ideas and foster collaboration and creativity. The platform was built on Brightidea’s WebStorm application and was called “innov8”. It was initially released to CLP’s IT department and later rolled out to the entire organization. With support across the senior management team, Locandro and his team maintained the initial momentum, driving success through consistent promotion and rewards systems for all idea campaigns.
Among the successful campaigns were “Next Generation Workspace,” “Process Busters,” and “Earth Heroes.” The company achieved great results through the hundreds of ideas collected with innov8 so far. For example, the winning idea of the Earth Heroes challenge was a “Virtual Tree planting” campaign to create environmental awareness among employees. For each virtual tree planted, CLP donated HK$5 to green initiatives around the Asia-Pacific region. The company has been named a winner of the IDC Enterprise Innovation Awards 2010 for innov8 and was a finalist for the MIS Asia 2010 IT Excellence Awards in Knowledge Management.
By delivering results at the end of each ideation cycle, CLP encouraged continued participation and support. The innov8 platform facilitated the discovery of new technologies and solutions, improved employee collaboration and engagement, and helped to recognize CLP as an innovation leader. Brightidea’s innovation software was chosen as the fitting solution to power the initiative, as it was quick and easy to implement and provided the flexible functions they were looking for. Overall, the platform helped CLP to strengthen its collaborative culture, lower cross-departmental communication barriers, and encourage active employee engagement