The Aboitiz Group prides itself in being a values-driven organization where it hones its talents that exude service excellence and creates a work culture that puts importance on delivering our Group Purpose and Brand Promise.
Many projects are being launched or introduced regularly, each addressing either a particular BU need or of the entire Group. What’s common is that all initiatives are guided by the organization’s core values— Integrity, Teamwork, Innovation, and Responsibility. These values are always at the core of every project, the foundation on which the Aboitiz culture is built and proven over the test of time to be successful in continuously advancing business and communities today and for the years to come.
One of the most coveted and prestigious awards the Aboitiz Team Leaders and Team Members look forward to is The Aboitiz Way Groupwide Team Awards. This is one of the many ways to recognize the hard work the teams have put into their projects that live out and apply the core values, which serve as the main categories and criteria for this award.
The nominated projects go through a rigorous process by first winning their local team awards in their business units, or their projects are endorsed by their SBU/BU’s management committee. For the next step, the project teams face a panel of judges consisting of esteemed leaders across the Group whose goal is to further dissect these projects for their results, relevance, sustainability, and long-term impact.
Here is an overview of each category:
INTEGRITY: These are projects that managed to excel in delivering what we promised to our customers and untiring to improve customer service to exceed customer satisfaction. These efforts were also successful in bringing or expanding markets and customer base.
TEAMWORK: This category champions projects that foster a collaborative atmosphere within teams, inter-CSUs, or across the group. These are projects that broke silos and made a significant impact on increasing team member engagement.
INNOVATION (Breakthrough): These are bold and pioneering projects, first of their kind within or outside the Aboitiz Group. These initiatives are cutting edge, trendsetting, and truly, speak of innovation.
INNOVATION (Improvement): This category gives recognition to projects that seek continuous improvement, may it be in service, process, or product.
RESPONSIBILITY: The category champions projects that successfully balance the interest and involve the stakeholders to ensure that they have a fair share of the value creation the company is engaged in. These projects also advocate sustainability in terms of people, planet and profit.
Despite the rough year it has been, these projects speak for themselves that in times of disruption, the A-People band together to create more efficient ways of working.
AND THE WINNERS ARE…
INTEGRITY
Concentrate Plus led by PT Gold Coin – Indonesia nabbed this award. This project created a new market by listening and designing their processes based on their customers/stakeholders’ needs. The quality of the products and services generated referrals and increased the trust of the customers/stakeholders to the company, leading to a significant increase in sales volume and revenue.
More than the bottom line, the project has established meaningful partnerships with the communities where they operate in.
TEAMWORK
Building Solar, Breaking Silos by SNAP impressed the judges with their solid collaboration while working on a very impactful project. The floating solar project in Magat highlights how teamwork was instrumental in completing the project on quality, ahead of schedule, and safely. This project was made successful through the cooperation of various teams internally and the trust and support from external stakeholders such as the National Irrigation Administration, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the local government unit of Ramon, Isabela.
INNOVATION (BREAKTHROUGH)
Taking this category is Davao Light and Power Company, Inc. with the Intelligent Protection and Automation Design of Digital Substations (IPADDS) initiative.
It’s the first digital substation design to utilize Software-Defined Network in Aboitiz and the Philippines. The project team converted a traditional substation into a fully digital and intelligent system, allowing cleaner, safer and simpler substations, making power restoration more efficient.
The project improved the system, improved customer satisfaction, and helped the company stay ahead of the game.
INNOVATION (IMPROVEMENT)
Congratulations to the Retail Loans Platform – Mortgage Project led by UnionBank for winning this category.
Retail Loans Platform created an efficient and digital way of handling loan applications as a way to support the direction of the organization. The project team managed to automate the entire mortgage process (from encoding to booking), decreased the booking timeline from 5 days to 5 minutes, which allowed the bank to save time and resources and substantially impact mortgage business sales.
This seamless and automated process improvement enhanced relationships/partnerships and provided a remarkable customer experience.
RESPONSIBILITY
The winner for this category goes to AboitizPower Coal BU’s Project Community Latrine by Coal BU.
The project team provided makeshift latrines and educated the fishing and Muslim community of Barangay Inawayan about the importance of sanitation and hygiene, which improved their mindset and safety practice.
The project positively impacted the communities they operate in by effectively balancing the stakeholders and the organization’s interests – demonstrating care for people and care for the planet/environment.
These projects are the living proof that our team members have helped Aboitiz deliver the group purpose of driving change for a better world, hence only a rightful acknowledgment for their efforts is in place.
In Aboitiz, recognition, and appreciation for the loyalty and hard work of our A-People never go unsung, which precisely makes The Groupwide Team Awards one of the most anticipated awards to look forward to in the organization.
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