Case Study: ABB achieves company-wide sustainability engagement and supplier innovation with Wazoku

How leading digital technologies group ABB used the flexibility of the Wazoku Platform to innovate in different ways across its divisions

ABB, a global leader in robotics, automation and digital technologies, needed a way to embed and scale its Sustainability Strategy 2030 across diverse business areas, suppliers and 110,000 employees. The challenge was to harmonize idea capture, supplier collaboration and award programs across divisions—replacing fragmented processes with a single, repeatable approach to surface, evaluate and implement sustainability ideas.

Using the Wazoku platform as a one‑stop solution, ABB deployed idea management, always‑on Challenges, supplier co‑creation communities and impact calculation tools across Robotics, Electrification, R&D and Group functions. Results include a virtual European Value Provider Award and a living supplier library, a Group Sustainability Changemaker program that collected ~224 ideas and reached 70,000+ employees, 223 ideas in a Service Innovation Challenge, a month‑long end‑to‑end awards process with executive buy‑in, and ongoing continuous‑improvement programs in R&D China — with plans to expand access company‑wide via SSO and external collaboration.

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Agnieszka Kozień

Service and IT Project Manager