Being the difference. Everyday lean
Karen Lawson, Deputy Director of HR & Organisation Development
Dr. Nicola Cairns, Recruitment & Resourcing Manager
Lorna Prince, Organisation Development Partner
University of Stirling
We all know that culture change is hard to initiate and even harder to sustain. How can a university ensure that Lean methodologies become ‘business as usual’, rather than played with for a while before being discarded for the next new and shiny management toy? In response to this, some universities have created central Lean teams to guarantee the spread of continuous improvement; some have tested the waters by adding the responsibility to the day job of a few individuals while others have opted to increase the skill base of leaders across the organisation to undertake a broad range of local Lean initiatives.
This session will share the route that the University of Stirling has taken to shift the culture to one where continuous improvement is simply every day work, and to achieve large scale organisational change using knowledge, evidence and engagement. You will also have the opportunity to discuss the evidence from a change project and consider how this could be used to influence change.
Main learnings for participants are:
- An awareness of how an institution can successfully embed a culture of continuous improvement without a central Lean team
- An example of using evidence to gain support for large scale organisational change
- The opportunity to reflect on how this particular adoption of Lean and evidence gathering approach differs from their own experience, and how it could be used in their workplace
