It’s been just over a year since we launched Ideas, and we’ve received 95 suggestions from colleagues across the business.

If you don’t remember what the Ideas platform is, you can read about it on our previous blog ‘Introducing Ideas’ but in short… Ideas is basically an online colleague suggestion box.

We wanted to encourage our colleagues to submit their ideas on how we can improve things for customers, for colleagues or even Bromford as a whole. We wanted to create this platform so that colleague ideas could be heard and hopefully have their ideas implemented across the business.  We also wanted them to let us know about the day-to-day barriers that stand in the way of innovation.  

18 of those ideas have been successful, 29 of those didn’t progress, 17 were matched to existing activities within the business and 31 of those are still being explored.

In this short podcast CSC Team Leader Josh Smith talks with Innovation Coach Paul Taylor and Head of People Services Michelle Beardshaw. Since the launch of Ideas last year, an amazing 95 Ideas have been submitted from colleagues across the business. Paul and Michelle talk about what worked, what failed and what's next?