Vodafone and Zapiens win in HR at the 2019 Understanding Awards

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The 6th edition of the awards granted by the Company and Society Foundation has recognized the successful collaboration between Vodafone and scaleup (established startup) Zapiens as the best in its category, HR, for its disruptive solution to face strategic innovation challenges and digital transformation.

The 2019 Understanding Awards, sponsored by the Company and Society Foundation, were unveiled and delivered in an event attended by more than 300 guests from the business and entrepreneurial world and that took place at the Bankia Tower in Madrid.

The HR category rewards innovative scaleup solutions for Human Resources areas of large companies.

Zapiens developed a collective intelligence tool for Vodafone called Zap, whose essential purpose was to improve the knowledge management of company employees. They based it on a bot with artificial intelligence that does not stop growing with the interaction of employees with the application, since, when it does not know something, it searches its knowledge map to ask for the corresponding expert response with continuous improvement.

With Zap installed in terminals and mobiles, employees obtain information in real time, the company identifies the learning needs in the organization, the information is available to employees regardless of whether the experts are and hidden talent is detected. workers.

In this edition, Vodafone and Zapiens have contended for the award with Zodio and Malt, which provided Zodio, of the ADEO group, access to specialized talent on demand for technological profiles with the aim of creating a team of highly specialized freelances to carry out the launch of its e-commerce in Spain.

The winners in the four other categories have been: Sacyr and Zerintia Technologies (Industry 4.0), Alantra and urbanData Analytics (Marketing and Sales), Douglas and Orquest (Operations and Processes) and Oh my Cut! and Iristrace (SMEs).

The President of the Foundation, José María Irisarri, pointed out that, unlike other awards: 

“We reward cases, because we firmly believe in teamwork… Cases that are a demonstration to the business world that together, companies and scaleups can reach large successes finding avant-garde solutions.”

The winning cases have been chosen by a jury of 22 independent professionals from the world of business and innovation, chaired by Sara Bieger, managing partner of Alto Partners Executive Search and advisor of AXA, who analyzed the 14 finalist cases and their impact on companies and society.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.