Hilti Foundation.

LIECHTENSTEIN · PHILANTHROPIC NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION

Based in Liechtenstein, The Hilti Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit organization dedicated to building a better, sustainable future & empowering people to lead independent lives. It is part of the Hilti Group, a family company with a philanthropic heart, in existence over 3 generations and which employs 37,000 people worldwide. Fritz Hanselmann leads the organizations communications and he shared his experience working with Sustainable Digital.

Services provided: Web Design · Web Development · Search Engine Optimization

What challenges prompted you to relaunch your website?

‘When I started working with Hilti we didn't have a user friendly website and it was my task to better communicate our key initiatives to our 37,000 worldwide employees. I knew about SquareSpace and started playing with it a little to create the framework of what I needed, then looked for a specialist for the customization work I was unable to do myself.

Coming across Bob and Luis was great - the company was experienced in working with NGOs, shared our ethics, cared about what we stood for and were looking to achieve. I had worked with web design agencies before and it can be extraordinarily expensive and challenging - what I needed was someone to challenge my prototype, a team with a specialized eye from the NGO sector - in SD I found the sparring partner I needed.

After testing my prototype we came to realize that we needed to start from scratch, primarily to be able to make the site fully responsive and workable on mobile devices. The SD team took me on the journey and the result was completely worth the effort.

All I had to do was provide the copy and images and they did all of the hard work and customisation needed.

What I like in particular is having access to the whole team so that I was able to discuss programming to design to look and feel with the person most skilled in those aspects. It made the whole experience easy, fast and effective. When another project came up on a small NGO in Liechtenstein I happily referred them for the work.”

What do you like about the Sustainable Digital approach?

“What I like about them is that they very quickly understand the requirements of the project. They are very easy to work with and are more than just website programmers. They work in close partnership on all aspects of the projects.

We very much favour working with small teams and businesses and SD very much has a small company ethic - flexible, really humble and highly professional at the same time. “