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“Top 100” lists the most innovative companies in the country.
This
year ACI-ecotec GmbH & Co. KG is one of them.
Zimmern ob Rottweil – resourceful staff working in a creative, motivating
environment have enabled the medium-sized company to climb the ladder – onto
the list of the top 100 innovators in Germany. On Thursday 1st of July, Lothar
Späth
presented
the “Top 100” seal of approval to ACI-ecotec in Rostock Warnemünde.
Innovation success and individual professional staff development are closely
intermeshed
in the Baden-Württemberg based company which helps to bring sunshine
into houses
and office buildings with its machines and facilities for manufacturing
photovoltaic systems.
Any one of the 95 employees can become an inventor and have their name
added
to the in-house “Hall of Fame” of patent applications. “The
young industry of photovoltaics
is a huge playground for our workers who want to conquer the associated
technologies
and find the answer to whole range of specific problems”, stated
the chief executive officer,
Karl-Heinz Menauer. This was how the company managed by the engineer developed
the “ecoCarrier”™. The product not only supports the
manufacture of photovoltaic cells
but also transports them.
Such ideas are realized because the innovative climate of the company
encourages inventions,
as shown in the analysis made by “Top 100”. If an employee’s
idea is patented,
it practically guarantees his/her job security and career. “In
many cases, a new work field
evolves from an innovation thought up by a member of staff, and he/she
is naturally allowed
to manage and advance it”, Menauer explained. The good reputation
of the respective
employee is thus assured in the whole industry. ACI-ecotec promotes
this development
and allows employees to devote their full concentration to technical
details. Day-today
operative business and administrative tasks are essentially taken over
by other
members of staff in order to relieve the workload on the inventor.
Over a period of several months, the Vienna University of Economics
and Business assessed
the innovative behavior of 248 medium-sized companies in Germany.
The best 100,
among them ACI-ecotec, have been awarded the seal of approval for
one year. “Good
ideas which are received by the market don’t just turn up. We
have to work hard every
day to make them happen. Of course, we’re really pleased that
our labors have been
1st July 2010
rewarded and it shows us that we’re on the right path. In some
ways, it also shows us that
our good ideas won’t run out in the future”, said Menauer.
In total, 32, 500 members of staff work for Germany’s top innovators.
They fiddle around
and show no fear of new ideas. This is thanks to their employers,
who provide optimum
conditions for creativity through consistent innovation management
in order to get the
best out of their workforce. It also makes them important drivers
of the German economy:
in 2009 they made a turnover of 11.1 billion Euros. 42 of the 100
medium-sized companies
carrying this year’s seal of approval are ranked first in
their sector and 10 of them are
world leaders. That traditional culture and a desire to change can
coexist has been
proved by 60 family-owned enterprises which are among the “Top 100”.
Within the last
three years, 86 of the 100 companies have experienced above-average
growth rates in
their sector.
More information about ACI-ecotec, the other 99 prize winners and
about the “Top 100” project can be found
under www.top100.de.
Mentor
The mentor of the project is Lothar Späth, state premier of Baden-Württemberg
in South Germany.
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