Our mentors truly believed in us
Eszter Zborai, CEO
Innovation Champion
´Design Terminal is an excellent catalyst between the world of startups and big corporations.´
Attila Bolla
Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems Budapest
Head of MP Plant
How can a major corporation maintain its flexibility with thousands of employees? asks Attila Bolla. He recognized to sustain the development of his company it is essential to advance the internal communication and streamline the administrative processes.
When he graduated from high school almost twenty years ago, Attila never dreamed of becoming the head of a factory complex with 1,700 employees. But today this is exactly the case. In the meantime, he graduated in engineering and as plant manager of Knorr-Bremse Budapest he is constantly looking for new opportunities to boost meaningful innovation.
The 110-year-old Knorr-Bremse is the world’s largest brake system manufacturing company, with an annual sales of 6 billion euros. Knorr-Bremse also manufactures the brake system of the Japanese high speed bullet train, the Shinkansen.
Design Terminal recognized that connecting the Knorr-Bremse team with promising startups could be the perfect match to solve the company’s challenges.
As a result of our global recruitment campaign, more than eighty businesses applied from all over the world. From these, the twelve most promising teams were hosted at a three-day bootcamp event in Budapest, which also allowed for an unusual, flexible tendering procedure. Knorr-Bremse took advantage of the special format and involved forty specialists from its senior staff in dialogue with fresh startups. Knorr-Bremse has launched concrete pilot projects with the teams presenting the three most useful solutions. Design Terminal recognized that implementation of the startups’ innovatons can only be successful with the support by colleagues of Knorr-Bremse who are trained internal entrepreneurs, or intrapreneurs. Therefore during workshops and mentoring, a team of Knorr-Bremse professionals were trained by Design Terminal in how to support the integration of innovative solutions from the selected startup.
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Objective:
- Prepare organization to collaborate with startups and to maintain market leadership
Key challenges:
- Need to optimize internal processes
- Improving quality and intensity of internal communication
Outcomes:
- 15 fully-trained Innovation Champions who act as internal support for company-wide transformation
- Relationships with 82 startups from 21 countries
- Three pilot projects implemented targeting internal communication and knowledge sharing.
Design Terminal is an excellent catalyst between the world of startups and big corporations. They have a wide range of social capital around the world, helping to choose the best startups and making the integration of the selected solutions more effective.
