Build Culture of Innovation
Nopember 26, 2010
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I remember a conversation with the late Sir Michael. He could ask, if this has been brought Catur Dharma Astra 50, Astra is still able to deliver the next 50 years even a thousand years into the future?, Recalled Sri Martono, Corporate Vice President Chief Human Capital Development of PT Astra International Tbk.
He said communities have established management long enough, in line with the thinking Astrai William Soerjadjaya when modernize the 1970's. At that time, the Astra is experiencing growth from family management to modern management and professional recruiting reliable.
Until now the most proud of is the birth of our communities QCC, QCP, until SS was appreciated, Martono explain about the company having 134 thousand employee.
Within a year, from hundreds of thousands of employees that, can raise 600 thousand sugestion. One person can give sugestion 4 pieces. SS Community in developing and involves a lot of employees because that is considered is his team. Rooted in the individual proposals, later developed into the idea of a team and competed at the central level Astra. "His goal is to ease their work, improve productivity, simplify processes that essentially explore their creative potential. Imagine people working in the garden, just make like a sickle innovation, but it can be to slash oil palm until the cob was not there. This reduces the time randoman incorporated into the refinery and he took a lighter, "he explained.
Each participant from all business units throughout Indonesia facilitated Astra flew to Jakarta and met with CEO of Astra. Things like this bring pride to each member of that community. From SS, they competed in the company to then competed at the national level Astra as a Business Improvement Project, which able to leverage each company's performance.
Each February, the anniversary of Astra, the competition they digelar.Ide brilliant once. There are able to hold that one with a subsidiary company of other children and show spectacular breakthroughs like the birth of the new product, improvement of work and so on some systems. So Astra Award facilitated to look for value innovation. So hope they can push pull, Martono said that a breakthrough had to give an idea of what people do is replace the power robotic production systems that ease the job of human work and raise our produktifitas.Sekarang able to produce just 1 minute 1 car Xenia. That all humans do, he added.
According to the Legend of Rahman, Department Head Astra Management Development Institute, a business improvement company facilitating the activities of this project with memngelontorkan fund Rp 1.8 trillion in 2009. Each employee makes improvement activities. They implement his project to get feedback from customers. The formulation process of this innovation to support the company's USD 50 million per project and the results of their work into a business solution for the AI group. Like the United Tractor won because of her work resulted in a total solution which leads to customer needs. The company gave a bonus gimmick number of very large, Legend said that mention to the Business Improvement Project participants come from the GM level.
Martono explains, from the participants until there is a patented innovations such as those in APW and Federal. This innovation is the idea and encouraged employees to the company's strategic business. Patent product until it is received by the principal who makes all the overseas manufacturers who use the goods must be imported from the Astra. (EVA)
source:swa.co.id
