To adhere to the value of employee empowerment—which is one of the reasons for P&G India’s continuous growth—amid a rapidly evolving economic landscape, the company embarked on the Indian Digital Workplace project. This project addresses key business priorities of cost savings, employee productivity and satisfaction, and sustainability. Spearheaded by Damon Frost, associate director-IT, P&G India, the project provided employees with a plethora of integrated tools that foster collaboration. Frost was able to achieve this with a combination of networking and collaboration tools, BYOD,
anywhere online file sharing via the cloud, video collaboration capabilities allowing connectivity to key sites, next-generation e-mail, and the ability to print from any location, to name a few. The project has benefited P&G India by enabling effective collaboration between key strategic partners and multi-functional teams including HR, legal, finance, sales, and product supply. The company now saves 30 minutes per employee per day on average. Frugal innovation has improved productivity by step-changing productivity at one-third of the cost and one-tenth the responsiveness.
WINNER
Company Name:
Procter & Gamble, India Industry:
FMCG Headquarters:
Mumbai Employees:
Damon Frost Procter & Gamble, India
Over 2,500 MD and CEO:
Shantanu Khosla
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