Leading agile innovation platform helps Barton Malow lay the foundation for employee resilience and pave the path for adaptability
Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, a pioneer in cloud-based, AI-powered agile innovation management solutions, today announced its platform was selected to gamify co-creation and problem-solving activities by Barton Malow, a leading employee-owned construction management company with a mission to transform the industry through innovation.
With more than 2,200 team members spread across different locations and dozens of active projects all over North America, Barton Malow faced the challenge of sharing continuous improvement and creative problem solving initiatives enterprise-wide while ensuring a consistent and engaging team member experience. “We continually struggled to understand our people’s pain points, the tools they’re using and what’s working and not working,” said Daniel Stone, Senior Innovation Manager, Barton Malow.
Powered by the top-ranked platform in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1 2020, Barton Malow’s Innovation Game program was rolled out to all team members across the organization to collaborate on potential focus areas and concepts in a fun, transparent and inclusive way. Using game mechanics and a points-based system linked to recognition and rewards directly tied to bonuses, the construction giant realized an unprecedented level of participation leading to notable improvements in the field where activity takes place.
“The main benefits to using Planbox have been the increased level of engagement across our organization, the diverse group of ideas that have been developed and just having an easy way to incentivize the type of activities and interactions we are seeking,” said Stone. “There are definitely tools and processes at Barton Malow that have been improved because somebody added their idea into the Innovation Game, and then we implemented it. Using Planbox has improved our innovation culture, and we started hearing ideas that we would not have otherwise known about.”
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About Planbox
Planbox is the pioneering agile innovation management platform software provider for full lifecycle Innovation Portfolio Management, Emerging Tech Empowerment and Ecosystem Enablement. Planbox is recognized by Forrester as the top-ranking innovation management platform in the marketplace, having received the highest score in strategy and current offering in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1, 2020. As the most robust and scalable platform on the market, we empower our clients to discover, collaborate and capitalize on the best strategically aligned concepts with their ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers, partners, startups, academia, government and the general public to pursue breakthrough innovations, create a sustainable continuous improvement program, build a framework for corporate venturing and action on consumer insights. With over 20 years of domain expertise, 400 enterprise deployments, 5M participants and $10B of realized ROI for customers, Planbox’s AI-powered cloud-based agile innovation solutions accelerate business outcomes for some of the world’s most recognized brands, including Whirlpool, Dow, Novartis, ExxonMobil, Cargill, Bobcat, Honeywell and Sun Life.
In 2020, Planbox acquired IdeaConnection, the best-in-class open innovation platform and expert solver network. IdeaConnection by Planbox provides access to millions of diverse and brilliant minds and a global network of 20,000+ multidisciplinary experts and world-class facilitators in more than 180 countries, with an 80% solve rate for open innovation services such as public and confidential challenges, crowdsourced tech scouting and prior art search.
About Barton Malow
For nearly a century, Barton Malow has been committed to Building with the American Spirit: People, Projects, and Communities. The Barton Malow Family of Companies is comprised of four entities and five partner firms across North America. With more than 2,200 team members and 15 offices, our 100% employee-owned enterprise is on a mission to transform the construction industry through innovation and increased efficiencies in the building process.