Building resilience and capability: Shaping the future of Morgan Sindall Construction

Phase three

Shaping our future

Over a four-month period following the Innovation Hothouse, participants worked in project groups to explore their assigned strategic priority in further depth, to test potential solutions, and to come up with a business case including specific actions the organisation could take to improve in that area. Each project group was sponsored by two members of Morgan Sindall’s leadership team and supported by a Cranfield expert in the field. Members worked closely with their sponsors and with the business’s internal and external stakeholders to ensure all their activity was aligned to the organisation’s strategic needs. At the end of the four months, everyone returned to Cranfield, where the business cases and recommendations were presented to the leadership team and managing director Patrick Boyle. This provided an opportunity for even the most junior colleagues to increase their visibility to those at the highest level of the organisation.

“Going into Shaping our Future, for the first time we said to our colleagues: ‘We don’t want a solution; we just want you to understand the problem. People literally went into that workshop with one mindset and came out with a completely different one.” Nicola Gotzheim Director of Learning and Development, Morgan Sindall Construction

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