With inflation raising the price of raw material rapidly in the spring of 2022, Milcobel, a milk cooperative in Belgium, needed to find ideas to increase efficiency and cut down on costs.  They decided to tap into their key suppliers’ knowledge and experience to come up with these.  Instead of just organizing presentations for their Suppliers’ Day, they opted for an interactive conference, using Synthetron to allow suppliers to freely share their ideas and suggestions about innovation and about cost savings.

Two 45-minute sessions (morning and afternoon) were done in between presentations on innovation and the need for cost savings.  Suppliers were given instant feedback on the main points coming out of the Synthetron discussions, which reassured them that Milcobel was listening to them. The online dialogues provided Milcobel with valuable insights that have helped them to know their suppliers better and to take better decisions to achieve their strategic goals.

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‘I was impressed with the richness of the outcome.  The results have really helped us to understand our suppliers better.’

Karine De Wachter – Chief Procurement Officer – Milcobel

 

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This year, KLM has been working hard on a formulating the future mission and vision to continuously be successful in the future in a rapidly changing environment. KLM asked our partner organisation, SYSTEMIQ, to support it in formulating the core values of the future. To gain insight into KLM’s current unique values and the core values that will be important in the future, SYSTEMIQ invited us to organise a Synthetron-Hackathon on core values with employees of all divisions..

214 Employees participated across all divisions and shared more than 1,800 ideas and opinions with each other in one hour. This process resulted in a reformulation of the core values in line with KLM’s mission and vision and with the buy-in of employees.

 

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YIN United is a boutique agency for innovative and collaborative leadership and culture development. Yin United uses Synthetron to do exactly what seems intangible: measure and adjust a workplace culture in co-creation with everyone. Listening beneath the tip of the iceberg reveals unspoken roadblocks and underleveraged strengths. It is a real trigger in a change journey as employees co-create the future for themselves — owning it, driving it.

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‘Because of the participative approach of Synthetron, it has proven easy to make everyone in the organization accountable for the cultural change to innovate.’

Liesbeth Dillen -Yin United

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Proximus’ brand promise, Think possible, is key in its strategy.  Think possible requires Proximus to transform its culture to operate  in a T”hink possible” way, like a digital native company.

With 12 Thinkathons (synthetron dialogue moments) Proximus engaged its  employees, to co-creation at scale f its Think possible internal culture. These “Thinkathons” became a pivotal moment in the transformation journey because they helped to align bottom-up with top-down transformation views.

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‘As culture is something we all create together, Synthetron’s approach is spot on to quickly and easily hear and involve all employees in this journey.’

Kathleen Vande Kerckhove – Proximus

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