What is The Fifth Element?
What is The Fifth Element? More and more companies across Europe are interested in transforming their workplaces. Why? Watch our film and find out what all the buzz is about.
What is The Fifth Element? More and more companies across Europe are interested in transforming their workplaces. Why? Watch our film and find out what all the buzz is about.
To mark the retirement of leading workplace innovation expert Palle Banke, the Danish Technological Institute organised a workshop for nearly 100 businesses from across the country.
A growing number of enterprises recognise that the innovation needed to build and sustain competitiveness can come from the ideas and imagination of employees at every level. Our film features four such organisations: Devon & Cornwall Police, Innocent, Red Gate Software and The Met Office.
One of EUWIN’s first tasks after its creation in 2013 was to explain workplace innovation to enterprise-level decision-makers across Europe, and this has been one of our most exciting achievements. This film brings together experiences from seven exciting workplaces situated across Europe, and representing a diverse range of companies and activities.
You have probably read a lot of stories in which it is insisted that workplace innovation is about respecting the tacit knowledge of the employee and that companies need sophisticated engagement policies to let these employees bring their talent, knowledge and effort to the company. Nothing could be more wrong! The Dutch electronics company Prodrive Technologies has achieved such a level of sharing. The company is a marvel in the Eindhoven area in The Netherlands.
Bosch, the multinational engineering company which operates in the automotive, appliances, power tools, security systems and solar energy sectors has been manufacturing in Portugal for over 100 years. Its five locations in Portugal have over 3000 employees out of a global headcount of more than 290,000. In 2014 it recorded sales of €788 million.
Becton Dickinson has produced medical devices in Drogheda for fifty years, but during the first decade of this century the plant seemed to be falling off the parent company’s radar. Becton Dickinson offers persuasive evidence that workplace partnership means more than good industrial relations. Unions can play a key role in engaging workers at all levels in innovation and improvement, creating win-win outcomes for employees and their employers.