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Best regards,
Odd Tore Finnøy
Motivated Employees
Our employees are the company’s most important resource and if
managed correctly, Brunvoll’s corporate culture has the potential
of being our greatest competitive advantage. This is largely
expressed in the company’s vision of “Trusted World Wide.” It is
of essential importance that employees experience a high level of
job satisfaction and motivation, and that Brunvoll is perceived
as an attractive workplace for talented and skilled employees. To
monitor the status and further develop our human resources, we
have partnered with “Great Place to Work® Institute” and use their
methodology to measure how employees perceive the company’s
credibility, respect, fairness, pride and company fellowship. Our
long-term goal is to be among the top 10 companies in Norway.
The first measurement was conducted in 2014 and repeated in
2015. The measurements provide input to the targeted measures,
and this works. The 2015 employee survey showed a 10 percentage
points average improvement in all dimensions, but being an
ambitious employer there is still room for improvement.
Colocation at Årø
A major milestone for Brunvoll this Spring is that we once again
become a company where all functions are gathered in one place.
The Factory Organization, engineering and the administrative
functions are all colocated at Årø with the establishment of a new
office building on the opposite side of the road from the factory.
The buildings are connected by a footbridge to facilitate more
interaction and to give a sense of community. The consolidated
buildings will be named Brunvoll Competence Centre. The
colocation will be an important factor for realizing a more
rational and efficient supply chain and an even more coordinated
and productive corporate culture.
Advanced collaboration and extensive R&D activity
As a strategic measure, Brunvoll is an active participant in the
competence cluster iKuben. iKuben has successfully shown
that businesses benefit from great advantages by working
with R&D projects, where several of the network’s companies
work together with the involved research cluster. Joint R&D
projects is perhaps the most difficult topic a business cluster
can work with, but iKuben have found the recipe for success.
The level of cooperation in iKuben is so good that the cluster
aims to move on from an Arena status to apply to become a
Norwegian Centre of Expertise (NCE). The topic for the further
development of the cluster is just common measures within
the fourth industrial revolution referred to above. Specialty
designation used by iKuben is “Industrial Internet”, covering
also environment and sustainability.
Long-term planning
With long-term planning and a willingness to invest, as
shareholders of Brunvoll demonstrate, and the development-
oriented strategy adopted, we show that we are investing
aggressively even in a difficult market situation. We see exciting
development for the company in a world of rapid rate of change.
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