The Times’ Harry Wallop discusses the rising importance of employee ideas and how Sideways 6 empowers industry-leaders like Primark and Balfour Beatty to act on them.
JP Morgan Chase, Amazon, Primark and Nestlé; just a few of the companies that The Times highlights as having freshly rediscovered the power of the humble employee suggestion box.
Giants like JP Morgan Chase and Amazon have seen great engagement of late in internal employee idea collection schemes, but The Times highlights the issues they’ve faced using traditional suggestion boxes, leaving leaders sifting through 1000s of proposals manually.
Writer Harry Wallop shares how Primark addresses this challenge, with a little help from Sideways 6’s focused, organised and user-friendly tools, revealing how just one idea to adjust trench coats to better-fit cyclists in the Netherlands has led to significant sales growth.
Jermaine Lapwood, director of customer innovation at Primark, sheds some light on the brand’s decision to build on employee ideas shared through Sideways 6, revealing, “I don’t think that we have all the answers within our head office and we need to unlock the power of the ideas within our 80,000 colleague base”.
The ability to reach employees inside the tools they use daily and empower leaders to sort through ideas efficiently has has enabled Sideways 6 to modernise the humble suggestion box, exemplified by Balfour Beatty’s My Contribution program, a Sideways 6-powered initiative that to date has helped 24% of its workforce share cost, time and resource-saving employee ideas, saving the company £3.2 million and 53,800 hours.
Read more about the power of employee ideas in The Times’ full article, and discover how to develop your own idea initiatives through Sideways 6 on a free 30 minute demo call.
