Innovative workshop will explain Industry 4.0 and the opportunities it creates for businesses The potential of digital technologies to remove routine work and automate the production of goods and services is to be discussed at an innovative workshop to be held in Irvine, Scotland, next month. Hosted by Booth Welsh, a leading provider of integrated engineering services, the workshop will focus on ‘digitisation and the people centre workplace’ and will bring together leading European experts with companies keen to share their experiences of their journey to Industry 4.0. The event is being facilitated by Workplace Innovation Europe Limited (WIE) who aim to draw on international experience to create an Industry 4.0 roadmap which will help to blend the power of digital technologies with an upskilled workforce driving continuous improvement and innovation. Speakers include senior representatives from GSK, Siemens and Decos (Netherlands) on the journey to In..

More than 60 Portuguese company representatives took part in an interactive workshop held in Porto where the experiences of two Scottish businesses were used to demonstrate the beneficial outcomes of workplace innovation and employee-led change. The workshop was facilitated by UK based Workplace Innovation Europe Limited who introduced Doug Johnston, General Manager at DS Smith’s Lockerbie operation and Dundee based David O’Byrne from animal pharmaceutical business, Argenta. Both companies have recently participated in Scottish Enterprise’s Workplace Innovation Engagement Programme (WIEP) (http://www.goodworkplaces.net/Workplace-Innovation-Engagement-Programme) which sought to help Scottish businesses introduce people centred change and action planning based on a novel combination of individual learning and development, peer-to-peer exchange of knowledge and experience, and on-site coaching and facilitation. The workshop marked the launched of a &..

“Leadership starts from the top, but it’s easy to forget that it has to start from the frontline too.” Creating a culture of innovation and improvement requires tenacity. It means challenging deeply embedded attitudes and behaviours, asking difficult questions, and being open to experiences from a diverse range of other organisations. Good things happen when we learn from each other. You begin to realise that you’re not alone, that different organisations are on the same journey, working towards comparable visions and tackling the same challenges on the way. And, above all, that there are different and sometimes complementary ways of reaching the same goal. Nowhere is this illustrated better than in the two days of discussion which took place when twenty-five participants from several European countries took part in Fresh Thinking Labs (http://www.freshthinkinglabs.com/)’ Engaging Everyone in Innovation event last week. Leo Pharma&rs..

Introducing Multi-Disciplinary Teamworking to Maternity Services The evidence has been around for a long time. Multi-Disciplinary Teamworking in healthcare leads to better clinical outcomes and experience for patients, and better quality of working life for staff. Yet it is far from universal. Multi-Disciplinary Teamworking challenges traditional professional roles and demarcations, and can be hard to achieve. While the general principles that characterise good clinical teams are well understood, their translation into specific clinical settings involves open dialogue, experimentation, learning from failure, and persistence. All of this must take place without any relaxation of day-to-day clinical pressures. This case study offers practitioners fresh insights into how Multi-Disciplinary Teamwork principles can be translated into practice. It is based on an eighteen month change programme led by Workplace Innovation in partnership with Southern Health and Social Care ..