Borealis, a world-class provider of sustainable polyolefin solutions, turned to Crowdworx to unify its fragmented innovation activities. By implementing a single platform for ideas, projects, and partnerships, Borealis tripled the number of employees actively using the system, gained clearer project insights, and strengthened control over its innovation portfolio – supporting its mission to drive sustainable growth.
About Borealis
Borealis is a global leader in advanced and sustainable polyolefin solutions, known for its customer-driven approach to innovation.
Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, the company serves customers in over 120 countries and employs approximately 6,000 people worldwide. Borealis remains committed to reinventing essentials for sustainable living while prioritizing innovation, safety, and performance excellence.
The Challenge
Borealis faced significant challenges in managing its innovation processes. While the company consistently sourced good ideas, there were no clear pathways to implementation. Information about innovations, projects, partners, and collaborations was scattered across multiple platforms, making it nearly impossible to search and link activities effectively. This fragmentation hindered data analysis and made it difficult to maintain control over numerous innovation initiatives.
Additionally, low adoption of the existing systems among R&D personnel further limited productivity, leaving the company in need of a comprehensive and user-friendly solution to streamline its innovation efforts.
The Solution
Borealis partnered with Crowdworx to revolutionize its innovation management processes by centralizing all activities into a unified platform.
This integrated platform now hosted all innovation activities in one place:
- innovation ideas,
- internal innovation projects,
- a partner database for Startups, Universities, and other partners,
- Internal improvement initiatives,
- External innovation projects with partners,
- Open innovation campaigns.
With Crowdworx, Borealis can now seamlessly link all activities in one place. At the click of a button, the company can view which partners were involved in specific research projects and trace the ideas that led to those projects.
The platform also introduced advanced innovation reporting, offering real-time insights and analytics into the entire project portfolio.
The Results
The new platform has achieved tripple adoption levels compared to the previous approaces.
Innovation managers reported having achieved a much clearer view of projects and activities.
Using the Crowdworx reporting dashboards Borealis Management is able to control and manage its diverse and complex innovation initiatives with confidence.
As Borealis continues to innovate for a sustainable future, the unified platform provided by Crowdworx will remain a cornerstone of its strategy, ensuring efficiency, collaboration, and agility across its global operations.
