Case Study: ConocoPhillips achieves millions in annual cash-flow improvement with HYPE Innovation's Margin Improvement Site

ConocoPhillips Idea Campaigns for Continuous Improvement

ConocoPhillips Alaska, the state’s largest crude oil producer (about 179,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2016), needed a consistent, purpose-built way to capture and manage employee ideas for margin improvement. Previously tracking suggestions in SharePoint, the Business Performance/Continuous Improvement teams sought a structured platform to run 6–8 campaigns per year across a 1,500+ employee and contractor community and to turn ad-hoc ideas into measurable savings.

Late in 2014 they selected HYPE and launched the Margin Improvement Site as a central portal for “Doing Business Better,” combining ideation, validation, dashboards and campaign management. The platform centralized KPIs, enabled weekly reviews and cross-functional sharing, and drove a measurable lift in submissions and adoption — documenting thousands of ideas and delivering millions of dollars in annual cash‑flow improvements while making progress toward annual margin goals transparent.

ConocoPhillips

Joe Ramos

Continuous Improvement Lead