What does a manager need to do to enable a flow of ideas to generate more college

income?

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Emerging solutions to these problems

Challenge 1Colleges have to get more inventive against a background of reduced funding

Challenge 2 Everyone needs to think about tomorrow today, rather than rely on managers reacting to crises

Challenge 3 Create more ownership throughout the organisation for improvement and change

Emerging solution 3

Have champions, mentors and coaches to support disciplined piloting of ideas

Emerging solution 2

Inform your people of the scale of the challenge and create systematic college processes for harvesting their ideas and turning them into reality

Emerging solution 1

Create some windows of time for people to plan improvements

Emerging solution 1Don’t condemn the whinging – use it!Create some windows of time for people to plan

improvements

What does a manager need to do to enable a flow of ideas to generate more college income?

Extract from a summary of 70 recorded improvement projects led by curriculum and business staff and managers in one college in one year  

 

‘Access Reunited’ magazine for pre-Access and former Access students Waste Management Project – Trowel OccupationsTo manage our natural waste product – hardcore/brick rubble - by purchasing an item of crushing plant to turn our naturally occurring brick waste into saleable crushed graded hard core fill.   Is Archiving a Thing of the Past?To reduce paper records stored by Business Services.  Building Effective Communication between HR Select and EBS by identifying how features and functions of EBS can be improved to ensure that all necessary staff information inputted by Human Resources staff is current.

  

The Implementation of gti3, an IT based timetabling system within the Centre for Construction  Embedding Key/Functional skills into BTEC curriculums To implement the EBS to MIAP LRS software interface to enable ULNs to be obtained for enrolled learners quickly and efficiently. Development of an induction procedure for Learning Resources staff based at the satellite campuses Learner Involvement (SU) Review to• Assess current systems and structures• Evaluate effectiveness learner voice models• Make recommendations on possible improvements 

To establish the College Basketball AcademyAn initial 2 Year project with an associated development plan for the basketball players involved.  ELECTRONIC ORDER REQUEST (Academic areas only)To reduce volumes of paper + manual form filling, eliminate signatures required from Academic Budget Holders, improve the standards of current service and prepare us for an eventual paperless system.

Alarm Install to containers 3/4Secure and install intruder alarm protection within two new site storage with in Mechanical workshop forecourt. 

 Centre Ownership of the College Website

This project plans to increase the efficiency of the process of updating the content of the college website by delegating some responsibilities and using automated systems

 To monitor a course which is delivered in a blended

learning mode and thereby:• Provide a procedure for monitoring tutor/student

contact• Provide guidance for tutors• Provide guidance for student

Skills Audit of XXXXXXSupport Services StaffTo improve efficiency of operation in the XXXXXX

Support Services with a view to training staff to multi-skill.

Emerging solution 2

Inform your people of the scale of the challenge and create systematic college processes for harvesting their ideas and turning them into reality

What does a manager need to do to enable a flow of ideas to generate more college income?

TASK

Calculate the potential resource for improvement and innovation in your college

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.  ~Arnold H. Glasgow

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things."— American economist Theodore Levitt (1925-2006)

Piloting Project-managing

2. Supporting the trying out of the promising ideas

Stimulating Collecting/Incubating

1. Encouraging the search for Inventing better ways of doing things

Appraising

Turning creativity into

innovation

Working with groups of willing and creative practitioners to generate ideas for new courses and services, and for improving services and for cutting waste.

Helping practitioners to develop, refine and work up the more viable ideas into simple costed proposals

Creating a group of analytical people to appraise proposals and recommend those that need piloting

Creating a strong pilot plan that takes account of stakeholders, resources and risks; a plan that takes on measurment and focuses on small cycles of change

Ensuring that the pilot is well-run, often with coaching or mentoring for the project leader and has a senior champion to oversee it. Problem-managing when the plan no longer works.

What we have learnt from supporting innovation in organisations…….any system needs three components

Idea generation

Evaluation of worked up ideas

Especially financial

Emerging solution 3 – Have champions, mentors and coaches to support disciplined piloting of ideas

"The goal of coaching is the goal of good management:  to make the most of an organization's valuable resources."  -- HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW

Setting aims for pilot

Establishingmeasures

Selectingchanges to try

Testing small-scale changes

Test what works on larger scale

Spread across college

The core discipline behind improvement and innovation

Emerging solution 3

Have champions, mentors and coaches to support disciplined piloting of ideas

Emerging solution 2

Inform your people of the scale of the challenge and create systematic college processes for harvesting their ideas and turning them into reality

Emerging solution 1

Create some windows of time for people to plan improvements

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