Learn how electrical installations manufacturer Hager Group utilizes HYPE Suite to:
Founded in 1955 by brothers Hermann Hager and Dr. Oswald Hager, alongside their father Peter, Hager Group is an independent, family-owned business headquartered in Blieskastel, Germany. The organization, which embodies the cultural diversity of its European roots, how has a global footprint that extends to 20 production sites worldwide and serves customers in over 100 countries. With 12,900 dedicated employees, Hager Group had a turnover of around €2.8 billion in 2022.
The company is at the forefront of innovation in the electrical installations sector for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. Its diverse range of components and solutions encompasses energy distribution, cable management, wiring accessories, building automation, security systems, and energy management, all under trusted brands such as Hager, Berker, Elcom, E3/DC, Bocchiotti/Iboco, Pmflex, and Eficia.
For Hager Group, innovation is more than a business goal – it's a commitment to shaping the electrical world of tomorrow to become safer, cleaner, and simpler. The corporate innovation support team, led by innovation manager Christophe Duvernelle, has been boosting innovation since 2011. This team focuses on providing the tools and methods for fostering innovation within the group. All corporate innovation teams merged with Business Development and Strategy in 2018 to ensure strong collaboration between them.
It was difficult to track external trends that had been identified and internal foresight data that had been used for informed decision-making.
Before adopting HYPE’s innovation management software, Hager Group faced challenges in depicting the mapping between the bridge strategy and innovation.
In 2015, Hager Group started researching the tools and software available on the market to enhance its innovation program. After thorough research, the company chose HYPE‘s Smart Innovation Platform to reimagine its ideation program and enhance collaborative innovation across the organization. As well as meeting the company’s innovation needs, HYPE’s full compliance with GDPR and German employment policies was a key factor for Hager Group.
The onboarding process was smooth, and HYPE’s consulting support was crucial for ensuring that the platform‘s functionality was successfully adopted.
In 2020, having identified the challenges highlighted above, Hager Group started to use HYPE’s strategy module.
While implementation of HYPE’s strategic features is ongoing, there are already some clear benefits, including:
Overall, HYPE’s software has been used to relaunch Hager Group’s ideation, aligning them with the company’s strategic needs. Integrating strategy with ideation has enabled the identification of the most relevant subjects and topics for each campaign.
HYPE’s software has enabled Hager Group to share its business vision of the future with every employee so that everyone understands where the company is facing and can take an active role in impacting the direction of the organization. Innovation is no longer happening behind closed doors and is visible to everyone.
By involving multiple stakeholders into the process and making it visible, we build a vision that could be revisited and updated using a process proposed by HYPE.
The goal is to create a cohesive innovation management tool by engaging the community and strong commitment by submitting more trends including our customers’ view.
To provide a clear view of the ecosystem, it will be great then to make the links between trends, insights, etc. to the innovation projects. Indeed, it will facilitate decision-making and visualize project progression linked to the vision directly.
HYPE Innovation is more than just software as their team supports us in enhancing our innovation program by leveraging their extensive network and expertise to offer quality advice.
Justifying the rationale behind specific innovation projects would be more challenging, and evaluating which initiatives are truly worth pursuing would be difficult. HYPE effectively guides us in the right direction.
We would advise other companies that while our team values the robustness of the software, we also recognize the importance of live discussions. Therefore, we continue to hold live workshops to facilitate exchange and collaboration, followed by translating all outputs onto an online collaboration platform. This allows colleagues to seamlessly continue discussions, track the transformation of ideas into reality, and stay aligned with our strategy.
Collaboration, Efficiency, Exciting.
Collaboration: Adapting the tool to the department's needs relies on strong collaboration.
Efficiency: Both in content and form, HYPE enhances the efficiency of our processes and yields favorable outcomes from collaboration.
Excitement: Constantly seeking ways to improve and innovate fosters excitement as we explore new avenues and push boundaries.
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In today’s world, when staying relevant in the market is no longer enough to remain competitive, we, as businesses, need to start thinking ahead and walk the extra mile in order to become the change-makers who outperform the competition.
Continuous improvement is great, and it helps us to constantly improve little by little. However, if we want to outperform the competition and truly delight our customers, we need to start looking for ideas, technologies, and new ways of doing business outside of our own organization’s walls.
The most successful companies around the globe are implementing open innovation strategies because finding opportunities and innovations outside their organizations boosts their business growth exponentially, enables them to stay ahead of the competition and ensures that their customers and employees are engaged and loyal to the company.
Yet many innovation managers and leaders struggle with building scalable and effective open innovation processes that bring the results they expect.
Why?
Because open innovation is a new and complex concept. It involves many different stakeholders within an organization as well as third parties outside of it, and necessitates building brand new strategies and processes from the ground up.
To help you maximize the benefits of open innovation, we’ve created this guide, packed with actionable tactics, inspiration and best practices for tailoring your own open innovation process to your business.
But first things first, let’s review what open innovation means.
In today’s world, when staying relevant in the market is no longer enough to remain competitive, we, as businesses, need to start thinking ahead and walk the extra mile in order to become the change-makers who outperform the competition.
Continuous improvement is great, and it helps us to constantly improve little by little. However, if we want to outperform the competition and truly delight our customers, we need to start looking for ideas, technologies, and new ways of doing business outside of our own organization’s walls.
The most successful companies around the globe are implementing open innovation strategies because finding opportunities and innovations outside their organizations boosts their business growth exponentially, enables them to stay ahead of the competition and ensures that their customers and employees are engaged and loyal to the company.
Yet many innovation managers and leaders struggle with building scalable and effective open innovation processes that bring the results they expect.
Why?
Because open innovation is a new and complex concept. It involves many different stakeholders within an organization as well as third parties outside of it, and necessitates building brand new strategies and processes from the ground up.
To help you maximize the benefits of open innovation, we’ve created this guide, packed with actionable tactics, inspiration and best practices for tailoring your own open innovation process to your business.
But first things first, let’s review what open innovation means.
In today’s world, when staying relevant in the market is no longer enough to remain competitive, we, as businesses, need to start thinking ahead and walk the extra mile in order to become the change-makers who outperform the competition.
Continuous improvement is great, and it helps us to constantly improve little by little. However, if we want to outperform the competition and truly delight our customers, we need to start looking for ideas, technologies, and new ways of doing business outside of our own organization’s walls.
The most successful companies around the globe are implementing open innovation strategies because finding opportunities and innovations outside their organizations boosts their business growth exponentially, enables them to stay ahead of the competition and ensures that their customers and employees are engaged and loyal to the company.
Yet many innovation managers and leaders struggle with building scalable and effective open innovation processes that bring the results they expect.
Why?
Because open innovation is a new and complex concept. It involves many different stakeholders within an organization as well as third parties outside of it, and necessitates building brand new strategies and processes from the ground up.
To help you maximize the benefits of open innovation, we’ve created this guide, packed with actionable tactics, inspiration and best practices for tailoring your own open innovation process to your business.
But first things first, let’s review what open innovation means.
Tell me more about this section in 1 sentence
In today’s world, when staying relevant in the market is no longer enough to remain competitive, we, as businesses, need to start thinking ahead and walk the extra mile in order to become the change-makers who outperform the competition.
Continuous improvement is great, and it helps us to constantly improve little by little. However, if we want to outperform the competition and truly delight our customers, we need to start looking for ideas, technologies, and new ways of doing business outside of our own organization’s walls.
The most successful companies around the globe are implementing open innovation strategies because finding opportunities and innovations outside their organizations boosts their business growth exponentially, enables them to stay ahead of the competition and ensures that their customers and employees are engaged and loyal to the company.
Yet many innovation managers and leaders struggle with building scalable and effective open innovation processes that bring the results they expect.
Why?
Because open innovation is a new and complex concept. It involves many different stakeholders within an organization as well as third parties outside of it, and necessitates building brand new strategies and processes from the ground up.
To help you maximize the benefits of open innovation, we’ve created this guide, packed with actionable tactics, inspiration and best practices for tailoring your own open innovation process to your business.
But first things first, let’s review what open innovation means.
In today’s world, when staying relevant in the market is no longer enough to remain competitive, we, as businesses, need to start thinking ahead and walk the extra mile in order to become the change-makers who outperform the competition.
Continuous improvement is great, and it helps us to constantly improve little by little. However, if we want to outperform the competition and truly delight our customers, we need to start looking for ideas, technologies, and new ways of doing business outside of our own organization’s walls.
The most successful companies around the globe are implementing open innovation strategies because finding opportunities and innovations outside their organizations boosts their business growth exponentially, enables them to stay ahead of the competition and ensures that their customers and employees are engaged and loyal to the company.
Yet many innovation managers and leaders struggle with building scalable and effective open innovation processes that bring the results they expect.
Why?
Because open innovation is a new and complex concept. It involves many different stakeholders within an organization as well as third parties outside of it, and necessitates building brand new strategies and processes from the ground up.
To help you maximize the benefits of open innovation, we’ve created this guide, packed with actionable tactics, inspiration and best practices for tailoring your own open innovation process to your business.
But first things first, let’s review what open innovation means.
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