Novozymes is a biotech-based company, headquartered in Denmark and employing approximately 6,000 people in 30 countries. Its products - industrial enzymes, microorganisms, biopolymers and other proteins - allow industry to achieve more efficient use of raw materials, reduce energy consumption, replace traditional chemicals with more sustainable alternatives, and offer higher-quality products to customers.
Innocent employees are actively encouraged to suggest ways to improve the business, whether it be new products, business streams or better ways of working.
"If we are not failing we are not trying hard enough". Red Gate is a software company providing “ingeniously simple” tools for technology professionals worldwide. Although it is growing, Red Gate tries to maintain its original start-up, informal culture by using a variety of tools and initiatives to encourage employee-led innovation and strengthen its engaged culture.
The company has promoted creativity and communications by breaking down functional boundaries and by designing work spaces that create an alternative office culture and encourage people to work together, sharing ideas and collaborating on different projects. Read more about how designing work spaces that create an alternative office culture and encourage people to work together, sharing ideas and collaborating on different projects can improve your organisation.
This case study offers practitioners fresh insights into how Multi-Disciplinary Teamwork principles can be translated into practice.
EderfilBecker, a company located in the Basque Country (Northern Spain) is a striking example of innovative management. After a process of transformation which included the fusion of two companies, this manufacturer of electrically conductive materials created a management model based on self-organised teams in which communication, transparency and employee voice set the lines of action of its daily operations. Pablo Mendizabal, the General Manager, sees this change, and the company’s resulting distinctiveness, as central to EderfilBecker’s competitive advantage. In the words of Maider Martin, EderfilBecker’s People Co-ordinator: "We are doing things differently to create inimitable advantages."
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