How can employees be engaged in creating professional digital solutions? 

Challenge 

As part of its strategic initiative #MissionDigitalization, Volkswagen Poznań set itself an ambitious goal: to make the creation of professional digital solutions accessible to a broad group of employees, including those outside IT departments. The aim was to unlock the organization’s innovation potential and support the digitalization of processes. 

The challenge was to find a way to train large numbers of employees, inspire them to take action, and provide tools that would enable the fast and effective implementation of their own ideas. 

Solution

The ITDev team, in cooperation with Volkswagen Poznań, designed and helped deliver a company-wide, one-of-a-kind event: the immersive Power Week 2023. It was an intensive week fully dedicated to low-code tools from the Microsoft Power Platform family: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. 

Our experts, together with speakers from Volkswagen Poznań, delivered a series of online training sessions for staff. The main objective of the initiative was to provide both theoretical and practical knowledge and to encourage participants to use Power Platform tools in their daily work. 

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Value and benefits 

• High interest and engagement. During the week, as many as 409 employees participated in 25 online training sessions. 

• Testing newly acquired skills. The week concluded with the Hack&Roll programming competition. Three teams, consisting of 13 participants in total, were tasked with building apps and reports in the Power Platform environment in just 6 hours.

• Very positive feedback. This was confirmed by participants’ comments, such as: “Amazing work – congratulations!” and “An event packed with a huge amount of practical knowledge!”

• Recognition at the highest level. Personal congratulations delivered to participants and organizers by Stefanie Hegels, Chairwoman of the Management Board of VWP, highlighted the strategic importance of the initiative for the entire company. 

• A milestone in the company’s digital transformation. The event was a key element of the strategic #MissionDigitalization initiative and proved that employees equipped with the right tools and knowledge can become a driving force behind digital transformation.