​Edinburgh Napier University initiative - runner up in the ICiPS award for Education:

March 2017

A training programme run in partnership between Information Services (IS) and Human Resources (HR) is runner up in national Continuous Improvement (CI) awards.

Earlier this month Edinburgh Napier University was represented at the Institute for Continuous Improvement in public services annual awards dinner, and won a runner up award in the category of Education.

This is national recognition of the innovative work Edinburgh Napier is doing in embedding Continuous Improvement as part of how the institution works.

The institute has members from across the public sector in the UK and further afield, validates training, organises network events, and holds an annual conference with awards.

Also in the awards for the Education category were Glasgow City Council, and the winners HMRC, who (in a closely contested category) won with an innovative nationwide programme supporting tax education.

Edinburgh Napier University's entry was for our Continuous Improvement Partners (CIP) groundswell CI initiative, where a small group of staff take part in monthly action learning sets and mentoring, in order to develop skills in applying continuous improvement to their work.

The programme is co-run by HR and IS. By deliberately drawing together people from across different functions and hierarchies, it supports shared understanding across boundaries.

Together the sets and mentoring aim to enable a sustained difference to participants work and beyond. We hope to show how a relatively small group of people, consistently modelling positive improvement and our University values, can have a significant impact on the organisation as a whole.

Participants have said:

“CIP has strengthened my belief in collaborative processes having more impact”

“The CIP programme has given me the tools/models I require to think of continuous improvement on a daily basis”

“Mentoring a CIP has enabled me to understand what it is like for academic colleagues in the university in a way I hadn't before”

Thanks are due to the work of all the CIP participants, who this recognition is really for, and of course the many staff whose support is key to the programme, Kirsty Scott who helps administer the programme, Sally Jorjani (head of customer service and business change), Wendy Tubi (head of HR Capability), and the directors of HR and Information Services, Kerry Dewar and David Telford.

For more information check out the ICiPS official press release here:
http://www.icips.org/news/162

Or drop Laurna Macaulay or Steve Yorkstone a line... Especially if you would be interested in taking part in next year's programme, they are looking for great people to join the adventure!

Laurna and Steve showing off the runner up prize, with this year's CIP candidates.