Protiviti has opened its first two Protiviti iNNTM innovation sites to serve as in-house incubators and accelerators of ideas and next-generation solutions for clients and the firm. Protiviti plans to open additional innovation sites around the world in the coming months.
The physical presence of the sites within Protiviti's offices is a differentiator and represents a reminder to its people and clients of the firm's promotion of embedding innovation in all it does every day, says Cory Gunderson, Protiviti Executive Vice President, Global Services.
"Innovation is not just a concept, it's one of Protiviti's three core values, along with integrity and inclusion," Gunderson says. "We designed our innovation sites to enable highly creative approaches to a myriad of client business challenges; foster global collaboration with our clients and ecosystem partners; and develop innovation ambassadors throughout the firm by leveraging the employee rotation program we put in place for the innovation sites."
Protiviti developed a creative rotation and secondment program to maximize the opportunities for our global employees to participate within the innovation sites, Gunderson says. Protiviti employees from all functions can apply to become 'residents' of the sites and serve three-month secondments.
The Protiviti iNN site teams represent a diverse mix of expertise, levels, backgrounds and skillsets and work together without hierarchy or titles. Residents are free to be creative, learn about new technologies and cultivate new ways of doing things, all with a sense of community and collaboration, he says.
A third Protiviti iNN site is under construction within the firm's London office and will be operating by the fourth quarter of this year. The technology footprint built into the innovation sites is also being leveraged as Protiviti has new office buildouts when the firm changes locations or renews leases in many of its other global offices.
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