The document provides an overview of Bosch Group's operations, emphasizing its sales figures, workforce, and leadership in various technology sectors. It discusses Bosch's transition towards highly connected and agile business practices through social business tools and internal crowdsourcing initiatives aimed at fostering innovation. Key strategies include collaborative sourcing, internal funding for ideas, and an emphasis on agility in project management.

1. Internal Crowdsourcing @ Bosch
The Why and The How
Amit Kumar
Robert Bosch GmbH
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2. About Bosch Group
 48,9 billion euros in sales
 290,000 associates
 360,000 associates as per April 1.15*
*including BSH Hausgeräte GmbH (formerlyBSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
and Robert Bosch Automotive Steering GmbH (formerly ZF Lenksysteme GmbH)
Industrial Technology  Leading in drive and control technology,
packaging, and process technology
Consumer
Goods
 Leading supplier of power tools
and accessories
 Leading supplier of household appliances
 One of the world’s largest suppliers of
automotive technology
Mobility
Solutions
68%
share
of sales
Bosch Group  48,9 billion euros in sales
 290,000 associates
 360,000 associates as per April 1.15*
 Leading manufacturer of security technology
 Global market leader of energie-efficent
heating products and hot-water solutions
Energy and
Building
Technology
32%
share
of sales
 Leading manufacturer of security technology
 Global market leader of energy-efficient
heating products and hot-water solutions
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About Bosch
Workshop for Precision
Mechanics and Electrical
Engineering
1886 2015
3 associates
18 patents /
working day
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360,000 associates
150 countries

4. Evolution of market dynamics and its influences
Source: BetaCodex – Organize for complexity
Marketdynamics
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5. How Bosch is addressing these challenges
Roll-out of Social Business
tool and methods
Growing global adoption of
networked working practices
Objective: Highly connected company (Enterprise 2.0)
Step1
2011 2015
Highly connected
and
agile company
We are here
190,000
associates
on-boarded
Bosch
Connect
associates in
73
countries
use Bosch Connect
78
success stories
collected
27,000
communities
78% open
70,000
unique users
per day
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6. Roll-out of Social Business
tool and methods
Growing global adoption of
networked working practices
Objective: Highly connected company (Enterprise 2.0)
Step1
2011 2015
We are here
Developing additional
capabilities
Step2 Highly connected
and
agile company
?
How Bosch is addressing these challenges
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7. Changing business models and working principles
Facebook
Media/ data owner, creates no content
Taxi company, owns no vehicles
Uber
Airbnb
Accommodation provider, owns no real
estate
Firefox
Web browser by open source
community
Many creative projects with crowd
funding support
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8. Facebook
Media/ data owner, creates no content
Taxi company, owns no vehicles
Uber
Airbnb
Accommodation provider, owns no real
estate
Firefox
Web browser by open source
community
Many creative projects with crowd
funding support
Resources exist;
Effectively bringing them
together is the key
Collaborative sourcing
within an Enterprise
People are talented;
Bringing their passion to
opportunities is the key
What can we learn and use in an Enterprise
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9. Collaborative sourcing framework
Creators
Contributors
An environment
where capability meets opportunity
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10. Business case – Strengthening innovation
Associates create
business ideas with
needed resources
Each associate is assigned a
part of innovation budget
Associates
fund ideas
Associates nominate
to contribute to ideas
Team is created once
needed resources
are collected Project to realize
idea kicks-off
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11. Business case – Utilizing internal services better
Associates from service
department self-nominate to
work
Work-package
realization
Project managers
create work-packages
with needed resources
Task to talent
matching is done
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12. Platform development – Living own principles
End users
Vision
New release every 2nd week
Agile
working
Collaborative
sourcing
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13. What did we learn (actually still learning)?
Technology
Leadership &
Associates
Processes &
Guidelines
Organization
Culture and
mindset
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14. What next?
2015 ???
How to scale?
Some individual
success stories
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360,000 associates
The journey must continue…

15. Thanks for your attention!
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/imamitkumar
Amit Kumar
Senior Project Manager
Robert Bosch GmbH
Stuttgart, Germany
!?
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