Employee empowerment concept for the idea management at the Swiss Mobiliar

Abstract

The Swiss Mobiliar sources their ideas mostly internally. Alike idea-driven organizations, they currently focus on bottom up ideas and aim to improve their core business. This is shown by a large ongoing project and the re-launch of their idea management (05.2018), which includes idea coaches and an IT tool called SMARTis. Within one year, their employees generated 250 ideas and the steps of the idea management process after the idea submission are properly elaborated. However, they have no evidence about which factors lead their employees to contribute to the first step idea generation.