Award-winning innovation power: Ranga Yogeshwar recently congratulated building automation pioneer Kieback&Peter on its success with a personal video. In the scientific selection process, Kieback&Peter made an exceptionally impression in the size class C (more than 200 employees), especially in the category "Innovation-promoting top management".
To watch the video in English, please go to the Youtube settings in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen, click on subtitles and select English as your language.
To watch the video in English, please go to the Youtube settings in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen, click on subtitles and select English as your language.
The Berlin-based medium-sized company convinces the jury in the innovation competition
The TOP 100 company portrait published on the occasion of the award states (excerpt):
"Kieback&Peter is an expert in building automation. The company develops software- and hardware-based all-in-one systems, that interconnect building technology systems with each other and contribute to a more sustainable use of objects. Digitisation opens up new possibilities here as well. At the same time, customers' demands on health, safety, comfort and, above all, climate friendliness are growing. "
"Increasing our innovation power is very important to us. The participation of the entire workforce plays a major role in this process," says Managing Director Christoph Paul Ritzkat. A good dozen "change projects" have been initiated by the top management in the past two years. In addition to the management level, more than 200 employees are involved in the projects. The aim of the projects is to develop innovations and achieve improvements in a wide variety of areas. In 2020, a new business unit was launched to explore ways of combining the traditional core business with cloud technologies and the Internet of Things. The hope is that the new business unit will lead to new and advanced concepts for even smarter buildings.
With this strategic orientation, the almost 100-year-old family-owned company has set itself the goal of supporting its customers' business models with digital infrastructure and data management, in order to achieve necessary climate goals as quickly as possible.
Top 100: The Competition
Since 1993, compamedia has awarded the “Top 100” seal to medium-sized companies for special innovation strength and above-average innovation success. The academic management has been in the hands of Prof Dr Nikolaus Franke from the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Vienna University of Economics since 2002. The academic is one of the world’s leading experts on user innovation. The mentor of the “Top 100” is academic journalist and TV presenter Ranga Yogeshwar. The project partner is the Fraunhofer society for the promotion of applied research and the BVMW.