LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS: MAKING INNOVATION ACCESSIBLE ACROSS YOUR ORGANISATION Tina Catling, innovation director, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure
We believe in challenging the status quo, and empowering colleagues to find new ways to keep each other and our communities safe each and every day. Collaborating and innovating to keep everyone safer is something that we all endeavour to do, but often the day to day gets in the way.
that’s reserved for a specific team, working away in isolation in a separate meeting room. Instead, it’s seeded across our entire organisation, to embed innovation in all we do and make things better, faster, greener and, above all, safer. To achieve this, it’s vital to build a culture where every colleague feels equipped with the time, tools, courage and skills to think in new and different ways. Everyone should feel that they enable innovation to thrive.
So how can we keep ourselves and our colleagues accountable for delivering against our ambitions to innovate? At Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, we believe that a people-first approach can pave the way. The first hurdle to overcome is to look beyond innovation simply as a process. While process is a key part of structuring the development of innovation, processes don’t create innovations; people do. Our people-first ethos sees colleagues across various roles, levels of responsibility and skills throughout the company working with their peers to challenge the status quo. This means that innovation isn’t something
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