With the new ENGIE Innovation platform, we want employees to become players in calls for projects and to be able to interact with startups.
For the Innovation Festival which will run from 22 to 25 September, the Group's innovation website is getting a makeover. Six years after Innov@ENGIE was launched on SharePoint – a community made up of more than 27,000 people – you now have access to a single website with a special area exclusively for employees through Okta.
“The idea is to create an innovation hub for the Group", explains Laurent Berthier, Digital Project Manager, overseeing the launch. “Employees now have access to the whole database of start-ups getting support from our innovation ecosystem. They could access it before, but we have improved the ergonomic design and the navigation process is now more fluid. What we are trying to do is make the way in which our innovation communities are managed more dynamic".
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On the previous external website, 6000 start-ups submitted proposals in response to callsfor projects and got support from the Group's experts and business developers since it was launched. With the new website, ENGIE Innovation wants employees to become stakeholders in these calls for projects and be able to interact with start-ups. “Expert innovators help us analyse and assess proposals from start-ups so as to help the community. There are currently some 600 experts, and we hope to have a few more in the future. Our aim is also to get more feedback and have more partnerships resulting from the interactions between winning start-ups and business units", emphasises Laurent Berthier. Employees will get access to the opinions of ENGIE experts. And they too will be able to submit comments about projects, share their ideas and enter into communication with people submitting projects, becoming experts in turn. "The idea is to break down barriers between people within the company and the outside world. We would like employees to venture outside more often to take advantage of our database, which is very sizeable", emphasises Laurent Berthier. The procedure for searching the databases has therefore been simplified.
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While making the Innovation Awards more visible for people outside the company, employees will be able to use the platform to vote in them. "We would like there to be more feedback to see what can be duplicated in other areas, by facilitating contact with the project team", explains Laurent Berthier. Employees will have access to more information and will be able to consult projects submitted by applicants and the winners of previous years.
“Our aim is for employees to stop viewing the website as a showcase, and to start seeing it as a tool", says Laurent Berthier.
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