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For the majority of the year, the 20 team members that make up our PPM (Product Portfolio Management) and Commercial teams work around the country. Pooling and sharing ideas in person a ords a great opportunity to harness the collective expertise of the group, and this year, the opportunity was fully maximised.
To honour innovation (one of the Andermatt Madumbi core values), CEO Michelle Lesur, opted to forego the traditional feedback sessions and mandated a compulsory ‘Innovation Day’.
Team members were tasked with presenting an innovation they believe will allow the company to ‘gear up’ for the future. The task parameters that needed to be met were:
1. Scope – anything honouring innovation within the biological industry, AMAD company strategy, organisational solutions, products and processes or individual role within the business. It’s your best idea!
2. Purpose – generate disruptive ideas for new products, new processes, new solutions, new ideas.
Team members were given 15 minutes to present their innovation, with an additional 5 minutes allocated to Questions and Discussions.
We’d like to extend a huge thank you to the panel of judges tasked with adjudicating and evaluating the innovations. Each judge focused on a different evaluation criteria:
The challenge was hotly contested on the day, as contestants were informed that the winner of the challenge would receive a trip to Andermatt Group Headquarters, ABIM (the Annual BioControl Industry Meeting) held in Basel, Switzerland in October 2023.
We are proud to announce the winners of the Andermatt Madumbi 2023 Innovation Day challenge:
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1st Place
Nastassja Viljoen
Nastassja creatively designed and presented a field tool to optimise and enhance the collection of infield data.
2nd Place
Peter Thorpe
As our biostimulant product manager, Peter’s focus was on sourcing enhanced local raw materials.
2nd Place
De Wet Steenkamp
De Wet researched and proposed a new innovation to commercially engineer and elevate the efficacy of an existing bioinsecticide solution.
– Michelle Lesur, CEO.