Hilti IT Innovation Competition

Deadline: 18 November 2013
Open to: young professionals and students from universities or universities of applied science from all disciplines around the world
Award: 1st place: trip to Malaysia, USA or Liechtenstein; 2nd and 3rd place: Hilti power tool

Description

Hilti provides leading-edge technology to the global construction industry. Hilti products, systems and services offer the construction professional innovative solutions with outstanding added value. The headquarters of the Hilti Group are in Schaan in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Some 21,000 employees, in more than 120 countries around the world, enthuse their customers and build a better future. The corporate culture is founded on integrity, courage, teamwork and commitment. Hilti excels through outstanding innovation, top quality, direct customer relations and effective marketing. Two-thirds of the employees work directly for the customer in sales organizations and in engineering, which means a total of more than 200,000 customer contacts every day. Hilti has its own production plants as well as research and development centers in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Methods of communication and collaboration are constantly evolving. Ten years ago, team members would share documents via e-mail or internal mail. Now, team members easily work with shared documents in online collaboration rooms and virtual workplaces – collaboration can take place anytime, anywhere.

That is why Hilti wants to know how young people envision the future communication and collaboration between Hilti and customers as well as within Hilti. Students should think about historical trends and recent market developments in order to imagine future communication and collaboration processes, software or hardware that will enable us to create more outstanding added value.

Help them with the following topics and answer questions like:

Communicating and Collaborating with the customers:

  • How will future communication processes between Hilti and our customers look like?
  • What is the role of social software (e.g., Facebook or Yammer) in the future working life of Hilti employees and customers?
  • How can innovative technologies be used for collaboration (e.g., mobile or wearable technologies like mobile apps or Google Glass)?

Communicating and Collaborating within Hilti:

  • How will future communication processes within different global Hilti functions look like?
  • What is the role of online office suites (e.g., Office 365), cloud computing or social software (e.g., Yammer) in the Hilti internal communication and collaboration?

And that‘s not all! They’re looking forward to seeing which additional questions you will identify and address through your submissions. Hilti will award the most innovative ideas with great prizes.

Eligibility

Young professionals and students from universities and universities of applied science, from IT, business, engineering and all other disciplines are welcomeNeither programming skills nor detailed technical knowledge concerning the construction industry is necessarily required to participate.

Single participants and teams members must be aged 18 years or older at the time of submission.

Award

The prizes are:

  • 1st place: Trip to one of their overseas locations: Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA) or Schaan (Liechtenstein).
  • 2nd and 3rd place: Hilti power tool.
  • All finalists: Easier access to internships and the opportunity to launch your collaboration idea.

Application

Submissions from single participants as well as from teams of up to five persons are welcome. Team size is not a part of the evaluation criteria. Submission should explain the purpose of the idea and how it supports Hilti and its customers. Entrants should use an illustrative and attractive way to present typical situations of application, a proposal for the design and the benefits of the idea for Hilti.

Participants are asked to submit their creative ideas by November 18, 2013, by filling out the submission form HERE where they can find all information on how to submit your idea as well as legal terms and conditions.

Detailed information about Hilti and collaboration, prizes, judgment criteria and idea submission can be found in the information package HERE.

If you have further questions about the 2014 Hilti IT Innovation Competition or need technical support, do not hesitate to contact the organizers at IT-innovation@hilti.com. If you have further questions about the 2014 Hilti IT Innovation Competition, you may also visit the official website HERE.

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