Speakers: Giovanni Molina, Program Director, Innovapptive
Tell us about yourself (where you are from, interests, and hobbies).
Giovanni Molina: Hi everyone, my name is Giovanni Molina. I've been, we've been with Innovapptive for almost a year now. September 13th is gonna be my first year anniversary. I live here in Miami, where my wife and I like to enjoy the outdoors and go out and eat at different places that you have a lot here in South Florida, especially in Miami. We enjoy wine and we collect wine and have an extensive collection of wine that at some point I would like to if anybody wants to see it, I can share with them. So hobbies-wise, we do exercise. We work out a lot here. And mostly we like to enjoy the outdoors and share time with family and friends whenever we can.
Tell us about your role and your team at Innovapptive.
Giovanni Molina: As a program director at Innovapptive, I need to make sure that our implementations go as smoothly as possible. Delivery with the highest degree of quality and also making sure that at the end of the day our customers are happy. Having our customers happy will result in more business for Innovapptive, which is what we want. But mostly showing the world that the applications that Innovapptive has really add value to the organization, especially when we're talking about having so many, almost 20 million deskless workers that still use clipboards and walkie talkies and all those manual manual work. And making sure that our customers embrace the innovation that Innovapptive provides for them is part of my responsibilities as well. I do enjoy that a lot and I have to say that I have a fantastic team that works with us on a daily basis, ensuring that that actually happens. And at the end of the day, we're all together on this boat. So ensuring that we deliver and implement our projects with the highest degree of quality is one of my main goals.
What are some things you have enjoyed about working at Innovapptive?
Giovanni Molina: One of the things that I truly enjoy about working at Innovapptive is as Sundeep Ravande has said a few times, for decades, 2.8 billion deskless workers continue to operate with sub-optimal technologies. And 97% of approximately 20 million deskless workers in maintenance and operations. They still use paper, binders and walkie talkies. During my previous years in consulting with Accenture and another company in Florida that's a cloud-based company, I was able to see a lot of struggles in this area and I totally connect with the need to provide the connected worker platform to more and more workers around the world. That is a fascinating idea that when I joined Innovapptive almost a year ago, this September 13th is going to be one year. I thought about it and I said, okay, this is a great mission, this is a great vision and I want to work with it. I want to make it happen. I want to help Innovapptive make it happen. So the challenges that come with that vision are absolutely fascinating to me. I enjoy that.
What is your mission at Innovapptive and how does it contribute to Innovapptive’s overall mission to connect workers?
Giovanni Molina: Considering that there's approximately 20 million deskless workers around the world that are still using old tools that are not completely automated, I think frontline and back office workers - connecting them together, it's a great mission. And the tools that we have at Innovapptive can definitely help make these faults more efficient, effective, work with higher standards of quality, and at the end of the day will make organizations more nimble. Working towards that mission and enhancing maintenance operations and overall supply chains is definitely a need nowadays, considering how fast-paced and asset intensive so many organizations are nowadays. I think that mission is great and I totally align with it. It's my mission as well, and that's one of the reasons why I also, enjoy doing what I do right now.
What makes Innovapptive exciting over the next 5 years?
Giovanni Molina: So, just the thought that our applications, Innovapptive applications are helping connect approximately 20 million workers, with current statistics, with their back office - right, front line workers with back office workers connecting, making sure that they work together, making them more effective and efficient. It's fascinating to me. That's exciting and challenging as it sounds, but the challenge is well embraced because what we're doing is enabling a lot of deskless workers that don't have the luxury of working with high end tools, like other people, other parts from their organizations. They will be enabled with these 21st century tools that will make their lives easier. That's how I see it, make their lives easier, make them more effective. And just that thought to see them working on the field with tools that are making, adding more value to their day to day... that's exciting to me, and I'm definitely on board to make that happen.
