Healthy company: technological innovation and people management
Thinking like a technologist includes never losing empathy for what technology can and cannot do for people. Therefore, when Maria James asked me to write a few paragraphs as Mainfor's R&D director about how we can innovate in people management, it took me little time to list different circumstances where my department is contributing to improving the health of our company:
- Project management: When working under this format, stress and the search for objectives can lead to individual and group problems that in my area we monitor and help mitigate. What good is an R&D department if it does not use technology so that its colleagues can produce better with less effort/time/energy? Each project we start has 2.0 equipment or, if not, we improve our 2.0 know-how to be up to par.
- Improvement of processes and workflows: Well-understood innovation is that which seeks concrete and specific solutions. While it is true that projects are important, transversal and common workflows are even more important, since it is in this backbone where innovation can help and quickly pay for the investment. As I mentioned in my last podcast, it is the workflows and their optimization and improvement that can give you that extra productivity.
- Automations and monitoring: Creativity arises by itself when stress is reduced and it decreases if "you have time to think." That is why we have turned algorithmic machines into our powerful allies to allow our people time to invent "cool things", such as the IEP YouTube channel "Café en practises" (which is not, no matter how much the evil tongues say , an excuse to come to the office in jeans and a sweatshirt).
As if this were not enough, at Mainfor we have been carrying out an authentic transmedia revolution for about 18 months that has allowed us to stop outsourcing audiovisual production to become a small 2.0 content producer. with a catalog that ranges from live broadcasts and podcasts to the creation of a solid educational visual skeleton. And we can assure you that the effort has been worth it, among other reasons because of the internal introspection it has meant for us. It has been like putting ourselves on the "couch", looking for our defects and virtues and watching it on YouTube. This healthy process of almost Freudian self-knowledge has obviously improved our psychological health:
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- Self-recognition and security in ourselves: Hey, I do my thing well and I can also show it on video to the family or to a date on Saturday night.
- Improvement individually and collectively, since being so exposed drives us to progress.
- Empathy to understand visual language, how new generations consume it and adapt our products and services to them.
As you can see, our "mens sana in corpore sana" as a company touches all the functional aspects and, above all, makes use of the best of innovations, the social one, that is, the one that thinks first about people and then about the zeros and ones.
Workshop, healthy company
Now announcements: You can reserve your free place for the events in Granada (January 16), Seville (23) and Madrid (30) in this link. You will learn first-hand what they are like and how to be a healthy company and why the Postgraduate Program in HR management is your bridge to employment in the sector or that curricular update that you are looking for to boost your career in people management.
