BNP Paribas is using blueKiwi Enterprise Edition to unify its people around a new corporate vision, improve internal communications, and dynamically identify expertise.

About BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas operates in over 85 countries, and has 162,700 employees including 126,600 in Europe. According to Brand Finance 2008, BNP Paribas is the sixth most valuable international banking brand in the world.

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Challenge

• Staff in different divisions and locations have significant knowledge and skills that are not always fully utilized by the business.
• Generation Y is starting to enter the workforce, which means there is a strong demand for Web 2.0 tools in the workplace.

 

Solution

Within BNP Paribas' Corporate and Investment Banking Division (13,000 employees in over 80 countries), blueKiwi is now part of an overall strategy aimed at:

• Capitalizing on information and skills within the business.
• Preparing for employees entering the workplace in 2010

blueKiwi has been deployed by the internal communications group for a project called Our business blog, which allows staff to capture and share information across the organization. The solution enables BNP Paribas staff to collaborate across departments and territories, and identify expertise and capture knowledge automatically as people collaborate.

 

Benefits

• BNP Paribas staff can share information freely and easily across departments and territories
• Experts are identified based on their contributions
• Experts can be found easily when required
• The vision of One Bank; is reinforced, because people now work together despite being in different departments and locations
• The business is more responsive to factors that affect the bank in both the internal and external environment