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01 Feb 2017 14:00

Evaluating Digital Creativity Support To Improve Healthand- Safety in a Manufacturing Plant

Aula Saraceno - Department of Management

Creative thinking is increasingly seen as essential to the success of organisations. Indeed, capitalism is in the midst of an epochal transformation from its previous industrial model to a new one based on creativity and knowledge. Organisations are increasingly seeking new means of harnessing and exploiting the creativity of their workforces, often to deliver little-c creativity – everyday activities in which the non-expert may participate each day. New forms of digital technologies are emerging to harness and enhance the creative thinking of employees. This paper reports a new evaluation of digital support for human creativity to improve health-and-safety in automotive manufacturing. A manufacturing plant’s systematic risk detection and resolution process was extended with digital support for employees to think creatively about resolutions to encountered health-and-safety risks – digital support that combined different types of retrieved information with creative techniques to discover and document new risk resolutions. A new evaluation of the use of the digital support in the plant over 66 working days revealed that this use led to more complete, more useful and more novel risk resolutions, compared with the original paper process. The evaluation results also informed both how digital creativity support might be rolled out across manufacturing plants. The presentation ends with a review of relative enablers and barriers to rolling out the digital creativity support in UK and Italian automotive plants.

Seminar held by Prof. Neil Maiden, Cass Business School

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L'evento si terrà in italiano

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Dipartimento di Management

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