Deutsche Post World Net opened the DHL Innovation Center in Troisdorf near Bonn. The goal and mission of the DHL Innovation Center are to develop marketable, highly innovative products from logistics trends of the future.
In addition, the laboratory of the future forms an umbrella organization for all areas of technical innovation management that the company has been exploring. The laboratory of the future plays a key role in the Group's strategy, with which Deutsche Post World Net as the No. 1 company in the global logistics market intends to become the world's most innovative logistics concern.
Chairman Dr. Klaus Zumwinkel stressed this in his address at the opening ceremony: “Today, we are the largest logistics company in the world. But size alone is no measure of success. What counts is our customers' satisfaction. This is why we will amaze our customers with even newer and more future-oriented products.”
The main speaker at the opening ceremony of the DHL Innovation Center in Troisdorf was Jeremy Rifkin. The American scientist who concerns with his work the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment has been influential in shaping public policy in the United States and around the world.
Rifkin is the founder and president of The Foundation on Economic Trends. A further speaker at the ceremony was the premier of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers. Rüttgers, was Germany's national minister of education, science, research and technology from 1994 to 1998.