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Culture of Innovation – The Basis for Economic Success
10.03.2011
04 March 2011: Saxony’s Minister of Science, Ms Sabine von Schorlemer, visits KOMSA
“Innovations are the drivers for growth and prosperity in our society. It is impressive to see how KOMSA AG builds its economic success on a culture of innovation,” the Minister of Science, Ms von Schorlemer, explained during her visit in Hartmannsdorf.
During a discussion forum with the company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr Gunnar Grosse, the Minister informed herself of the innovative management concept as well as of the R&D strategy of KOMSA AG.
Examples for the innovative corporate culture of KOMSA AG are weekly trainings, a strong involvement of the personnel thanks to decentralised company structures and responsibilities, team and project work, |  |
an idea board for the members of staff and knowledge management.
In the area of innovative corporate culture, KOMSA AG serves as a strong role model for other companies. In addition, thanks to its visible success beyond the borders of the federal state, it contributes to Saxony’s reputation as a technology location as well as to the promotion of interdisciplinary thinking in our society, said the Minister of Science and Technology.
The chairman of KOMSA AG’s Board of Directors, Dr Gunnar Grosse, focuses on flexibility and self-responsibility. Next to this, research and development in the information and communication technology sector are in the foreground.
The members of staff are the most important resource of a company. In a fast-moving sector like that of IT and telecommunication it is indispensable to keep the employees’ fingers on the pulse of the time via permanent trainings and knowledge transfer. However, at KOMSA this is also a conviction. ‘Innovative ideas need a foundation’ is how the entrepreneur with Swedish roots puts it all in a nutshell.
The Minister stated: Just as an innovative management concept within a company influences its economic success, a location with innovative structures can react to every crisis in a better way and can share in the economic upturn to a significantly over-proportional extent.
During an earlier tour of the premises, the Minister of Science informed herself, among others, of the company’s telecommunication museum and of the company-owned kindergarten Weltenbaum (Tree of Worlds) which offers employees with children flexible child care adapted to working hours.
“I can only recommend every company to offer young parents flexible child care possibilities adapted to working hours. These are worthwhile investments in the expertise and executive potential of the company and in the future of us all,” says Sabine von Schorlemer.