Alberta Blue Cross Selects Planbox as its Strategic Innovation Management Solution

MONTREAL, Feb. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Alberta Blue Cross has identified innovation as a strategic enabler for its ten-year vision. The focus is to build an innovative culture in which employee ideas are truly valued. Alberta Blue Cross will use Planbox to invite its employees to share their suggestions on company-wide, departmental and team challenges.

All 1,000+ employees of Alberta Blue Cross will use Planbox across all its branch offices around the province. Once the innovation team has some experience with the tool, Alberta Blue Cross expects to use Planbox as an open innovation solution to solicit ideas from its valued customers.

Alberta Blue Cross Executive Committee (EC) asked participants in its future leaders program to generate recommendations to help build an innovative culture. This included the corporate innovation team whose task was to recommend a digital approach to gathering ideas from Alberta Blue Cross employees. The company first contacted Planbox in March 2016 and began a long and thorough evaluation process along with several other ideation and innovation management applications.  Planbox made the short list of three applications selected for a demo to the majority of Alberta Blue Cross future leaders as well as an Application Architect in the IT area. The evaluation team then recommended Planbox to the EC. Following a demo, EC also liked the look of Planbox and its potential to move Alberta Blue Cross innovation program forward. The purchase of Planbox was approved in the summer of 2017.

According to reviewer ratings, Planbox was the most complete and flexible solution available. Planbox offered a great deal of support and documentation before any contract was signed. During the demo, Planbox was able to present all of the functionality Alberta Blue Cross required, and any unique requests were greeted with a positive response in terms of getting it done.

Alberta Blue Cross metrics for the first year are focused on building an innovative culture revolving around gauging all of the initiatives Alberta Blue Cross is launching and whether they have made a difference in terms of involving Alberta Blue Cross employees in this innovation movement. With respect to Planbox, Alberta Blue Cross will be looking not only at the number of ideas that have been generated per challenge or innovation activity but also their quality.

"Planbox shows great potential for allowing us to tap into the innovative potential of our employees. The challenge-based approach lends itself very well to inviting employee input on issues that impact our ability to realize our vision and operational plans. We are also excited about the reporting capabilities Planbox has," stated Mark Razzolini, VP of People, Wellness and Innovation and Chair of the company's multi-functional and multi- level Innovation Leadership Team.

About Alberta Blue Cross

As Alberta's largest benefits carrier, Alberta Blue Cross provides health and dental benefits to meet the needs of over 1.6 million Albertans. A multitude of benefit plans are available to individuals and families, seniors, and large and small employers. The company also partners with the provincial and federal governments in the administration of major programs. 

Alberta Blue Cross covers just about every type of health benefit, including prescription drugs, dental, vision care, preferred hospital accommodation, emergency medical travel, ambulance, home nursing and chiropractor, as well as life insurance and short and long term disability coverage for group plan members. The company is also well on its way to becoming the wellness leader in Alberta.

For more information please visit https://www.ab.bluecross.ca.

About Planbox

Planbox is the pioneering provider of cloud-based AI-Powered Agile Work Innovation solutions – from creative ideas to winning projects. Our mission is to help organizations thrive by transforming the culture of agile work, continuous innovation and creativity across the entire organization. Planbox is built for companies and teams of all sizes and trusted by some of the world's most recognized brands including Great-West Life, Honeywell, Panama Canal Authority, Philips, Sealed Air, Sun Life Financial, Whirlpool, Willis Towers Watson and Verizon with millions of internal and external users. To learn more, visit: www.planbox.com and unleash your innovation butterfly.

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