Innovation. The cornerstone of our strategy
The company’s long-standing commitment to innovation has allowed us to improve our competitiveness year after year and continue to maintain our profile as a company with sustainable growth. In fact, the company invests more than 7% of revenue in innovation per year (more than €500m in the last three years) and has carried out 270 R&D&I projects. Therefore, innovation constitutes the cornerstone of Indra's strategy in such a way that we have been able to adapt swiftly to our customers’ needs, without forgetting our clear commitment to nurturing talent.
To maintain our position as one of the companies most committed to innovation, it is necessary to capitalise on all available talent, which requires creating a multidisciplinary, global cooperation network.
“We follow an open innovation model, which seeks to take advantage of both our internal talent (our professional team) and the external expertise accessible via our relationships with discerning customers, with partners that are leaders in their respective fields, with suppliers, with universities and knowledge institutions and with society in general””
Javier Monzón
Chairman of Indra
Innovation as a response to our main challenges: Intelligence (Solutions), Efficiency (Processes) and Regions (International expansion).
Businesses are facing a tougher, more competitive environment, in which the efficiency of their processes is key to gaining an advantage over traditional rivals and new competitors from emerging nations.
Differentiation of the solutions, delivery model and the business model are fundamental to ensuring continuous competitive advantage. At the same time, reductions in costs, a focus on the truly differentiating tasks and the consequential improvement in use of available resources are the most relevant elements in this transformation of processes.
Focusing on developing a range of products and services to meet the challenges ahead.
While the IT services industry is still plagued by a scarcity of funding, with companies continuing to seek greater cost efficiencies, a few niches of opportunity have appeared which offer enormous growth potential. These niches are largely associated with two fields: equipping infrastructure and systems with intelligence ("intelligence") and making the provision of technological services more efficient (“efficiency”). Indra is well placed in these markets (intelligence and efficiency), with outstanding solutions and services such as Cibersecurity, Education, Intelligent Cities or Cloud Computing, destined to become the drivers of growth in demand for IT services.
This market positioning is complemented by Indra's ongoing commitment to innovation, which translates into the development of capabilities in fields as diverse and technologically advanced as domotics (home automation), 3D projection, augmented reality, remote energy management, etc.
Offering leading solutions to leading customers.
We are constantly developing innovative new solutions and services to help our customers meet the challenges that they face in increasingly competitive markets, which become our own challenges, in pursuit of two main goals: to create intelligent infrastructure and to be more efficient.
Thus, Indra strives to create a differentiated offering that meets the needs of our customers. And thanks to having prestigious customers with a strong international profile, the company has enormous opportunities for growth and development. This has also allowed us to win large international accounts, with both corporate and institutional customers, offering excellent future prospects.
Attracting, developing and retaining talent.
Investing in the talent of our professionals will help us develop new solutions and services and operate in new markets, providing us with a more stable future and the ability to continue growing. Therefore, talent management is a fundamental part of Indra’s sustainability and is a strategic priority. These efforts are continually reflected in the soundness of our brand and the recognition of the markets where we operate.
At Indra, we cannot overemphasis the importance of hiring, retaining and managing our talent, bearing in mind the diversity of our employees, in order to ensure that our team remains motivated so that the company can move in unison in the same direction and share the same goal: to create value.
