Planbox is helping Anglo American improve company-wide accessibility to and communication of all innovation initiatives
Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, a pioneer in agile innovation management solutions, has been selected by Anglo American, a leading global mining company, to manage innovation, business improvement, data analytics, lean six sigma and continuous improvement initiatives in Brazil.
Prior to Planbox, Anglo American lacked a transparent central system to capture and process insights. As a result, opportunities to create valuable solutions were lost. Today, Anglo American has completely pivoted, leveraging the top-ranked platform in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1, 2020 to manage internal idea development workflows and communicate all innovation initiatives to every participant.
Planbox’s interactive and inclusive agile innovation platform is helping the world-class mining conglomerate to inspire creativity and empower cocreation between employees and various business units throughout the organization. Innovation accessibility, visibility, and engagement are all key objectives for Anglo American, and keeping users informed of the who, what, where, when, why and how behind every initiative is fostering a more resilient culture rooted in collaboration, learning and trust.
“One of the foundations of collaboration is innovation, and we were looking for a platform to enable quick and easy communications between all people in the business to understand which initiatives are going on, to exchange ideas, to improve existing initiatives, or to create new ones. Planbox is up to the task of being this platform for Anglo American Brazil and it is helping us improve this collaboration among our teams,” said Hamilton Oliveira, Business Improvement and Innovation Interim Manager at Anglo American Brazil.
Planbox has worked closely with Anglo American, adapting the platform to its unique processes to create customized workflows that have now helped unearth hundreds of concepts, some of which have translated into game-changing innovations in areas ranging from moisture measurement, community safety and readiness, and transportation and logistics.
“Based on knowledge sharing and project management, Planbox has helped cultural transformation in Continuous Improvement and Innovation. Projects at different levels of work and complexity are in the same system, creating an environment of ownership, results, and reporting aligned with our company drivers. In the first year alone, more than 500 initiatives underpin the process to deliver the business expectation,“ said Guilherme Ferreira, Business Improvement Coordinator at Anglo American Brazil.
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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 Anglo American
Anglo American is a leading global mining company and their products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Their portfolio of world-class competitive operations, development projects and undeveloped resources, provides many of the metals and minerals that enable a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing consumer-driven demands of developed and maturing economies. With their people at the heart of our business, they use innovative practices and the latest technologies to mine, process, move and market their products to their customers – and to discover new resources – safely and sustainably.