Excellence – the key to success and sustainability. WEBINAR by Mr. Ribas

Achieving excellence and success, personally and for the company, requires leaders with integrity and honesty, commitment and passion, courage and resilience, belief in the purpose and focus, attention on the present and vision for the future.

Every reality is different, but at the end the basic principles to make a team achieve excellence are all the same.

Bosch in Portugal has been able to change its traditional mindset to an audacious, but successful path by engaging in innovation, increasing Research & Development activities and founding partnerships with academia and other centers of competence.

Mr. Carlos Ribas from Portugal was selected one of the winners of EQL 2020 award because of his outstanding accomplishments in the field of business’ improvement and his leadership achievements in outstanding productivity increase, attraction of Research & Development to Portugal, impacting Innovation Projects, radical change of product portfolio.

With an engineer degree of ISEP – Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (Superior Institute for Engineering in Porto), he developed his knowledge and practical experience by getting the Master in leadership at Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business -Carnegie Bosch Institute (Pittsburgh, USA), working at the beginning of his professional career as Technical-Commercial Engineer at Hoechst Portuguesa, S.A., continuing on different management functions and finally as General Manager at Yazaki Saltano de Portugal, in the field of automotive industry. Starting 2003 he entered Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal, currently being Technical Plant Manager and Bosch Representative in Portugal.

His main professional achievements are covering a broad range of areas like outstanding productivity increase (improving the productivity significantly over the years) or the attraction of Research & Development to Portugal, in particular in Bosch facilities located in Braga, Ovar and Aveiro, what quickly became a priority.

His work and efforts, together with his team, have been crowned by great accomplishments like for example Customer Awards (e.g. in 2019: JLR Quality Award), Innovation Awards (in 2019: CES Innovation Award), or EFQM Awards (e.g. in 2017: EFQM Excellence Award – in Harnessing Creativity & Innovation).

By his excellent management and leadership skills, he may count numerous outstanding professional achievements, but the best one is the growth of the company in terms of finance, human resources, technology, infrastructure, customer satisfaction, like for example the sales volume almost tripled in the last years from 433 million euros in 2014 to 1331 million Euros in 2019.

His strong values and the principal of leading by example and being a role model enabled to change the “old habit” attitudes at Bosch Braga into a positive mindset living and promoting motivation, passion, resilience and courage. He is motivated in his vision and work by Robert Bosch’s vision: “We should all strive to improve on the status quo: none of us should ever be satisfied with what has been achieved but should always endeavour to do better.”