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For your own safety: warehouse employees must not be distracted by things like apps when they are working, which can lead to accidents. In most warehouses, phones are not even allowed during work time, to prevent accidents.

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Generating data is good - but not always

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Generating data is good - but not always

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Reading your idea I already observed your year-long experience and the knowledge and engagement you put into the design.
I pretty much like the idea of generating more data to improve our processes internally. In this case I unfortunately see a major conflict of interest with workers council regarding employee monitoring. Therefore we should focus for now on our systems and machines - following you basic idea, do you see a chance in this sector as well?

Max Herbort

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Building a new business model is related to heavy investments that would fundamentally change the company and put us at high risk. Since we have very different conditions than Chinese factories, more research and evidence on the overall profitability, benefits and risks of such an outsourcing approach is needed. This is currently not possible.

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Such close monitoring of our employees is not in line with our corporate culture. We trust our employees to do their best. Movements through sensors could be misunderstood, so employees might be analyzed as not being productive, even though they are. But please feel free to think about other ways we can use sensors to increase efficiency.

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It is very good that you want to save time, but the safety of our employees is our most important asset and we must do everything we can to protect our employees from this - no matter how many accidents there are. Moreover, the low number of accidents is rather a sign that the current system is working well. But please keep thinking further about other opportunities where we could save time.

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That sounds great so far, Sydney! Since we currently have a lot of ideas in our backlog, we'll have to see how much it can save us and how the quality of the system will be in the end. Since we don't know exactly yet, we would prioritize other topics first. If you have more detailed informations in the future, please contact us again.

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Thanks for your great ideas Jackie. I think the idea is great, but I have to protect our employees at this moment, because this would be a significant intrusion into the privacy of our employees. Our employees would feel constantly observed which would create an unwanted atmosphere in our company. Therefore, as good as I find your idea, I must unfortunately decline this time. But I look forward to more ideas from you!

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I understand your concern taylor but in this case safety just comes first. Better one more false alarm than someone coming to harm. With the security one should not save I hope you have understanding for this.

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Taylor, you have always had great ideas and I admire your enthusiasm and energy towards improving the efficiency and reaching our targets. Nevertheless, on this particular topic I believe you would also agree that implementing this idea would endanger employees safety, and this needs to come first. Taking in consideration the health and safety State requirements and regulations, as well as our internal company protocols, it is also a one that could potentially backfire and get us in trouble at some point in time. The benefits in terms of efficiency might be more than offset by injured employees on sick leave and court cases against the company.

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I think it is an interesting idea with a potential to improve our efficiency. Having said that, taking in consideration the health and safety State requirements and regulations, as well as our internal company protocols, it is also a one that could potentially backfire and get us in trouble at some point in time. The benefits in terms of efficiency might be more than offset by injured employees on sick leave and court cases against the company.

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Taylor, while I appreciate your idea, commitment and effort towards improving efficiency and reaching our targets, the safety of our employees is a priority and comes first. Therefore, we would need to look elsewhere and continue working on other ideas that would not compromise the work safety.

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the idea is great and could definatly increase efficiency and productivity, but from the perspective of employees, such a monitoring device could lead to first safety issues as employees would be more focused on those devices and their functionality . it also represent a privacy challange as employees will be monitored all the time and could also put pressure on people so mistakes could increase in this case and creates a competition factor between people on who is more efficient thus lowering morale at the workspace and demotivate people.  Suliman Al Awamleh

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A feeling is sometimes not enough to generate huge impact on an organization, facts, numbers, KPIs and relevant analysis are needed as well as evidence to support the argument.

Oliver Strobel

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We already have a selection process to identify workers which fit into our company. This would demotivate the workers and also developing those algorithms will be costly and take time.

Oliver Strobel

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Safety is always the first to think about when it comes to production, especially if accidents already happened. The costs of a serious injury could be higher than the cost of stopping production for a while. Anyway, alarms could be optimized to have less false positives.

Oliver Strobel

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I need more info on how production will be cheaper, what kind of initial investment is necessary and what are the risks that we will possibly face (George)

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I believe these gloves are super expensive and will be easily destroyed and thus need to be replaced. I am sure we can find other ways for increasing quality (George)

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As most have said, safety is above all KPIs.
I would encourage Taylor to focus on the false alarms and how to reduce the downtime when such an alarm occurs

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As stated by other students, this outsorcing idea sounds not very far developed. First, the question must be raised if there is a real benefit from outsourcing. Second, if so these benefits must be weight against potential downsides. If for exampel the quality suffers or there is the risk of copying the components by competitiors, outsourcing might be not a good idea. Thus, before jumping to the outsourcing solution in Africa I would rather try to understand if outsorcing is in general helpful to the company.

Mario

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Interesting that a lot of people have immediately given very strong negatives to this proposal. For me it is a very basic /fragile idea based on a newspaper article and I would encourage Sydney to give it more thought/ investigate it more fully before submitting it.

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I would thank Jackie for her feedback and ask her if her concerns are more about safety rather than productivity?  She mentions that employees are using safety gloves and also about correct handling of tools and materials.   Can she see there is a problem in current behaviour that will to be fixed via tracking and subsequent training to improve performance overall?

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I would thank Taylor for his feedback and concern about productivity.  I would also use this opportunity to make him familiar with the safety issues that there are on the product line and the need to ensure employees work in a safe environment.  Does he have any other ideas to improve productivity whilst keeping everyone safe?
Ciara Mullam

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Thank you for caring about the company and taking the time to bring this to my attention. I understand that workers get upset when they miss their daily targets but under no circumstances will I loosen security measures even though accidents may only occur twice a year. Are there maybe any other ideas you have that would help workers meet their daily targets without loosening security measures? C.Hols

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Dear Jack, while I appreciate your intentions, I do not think it is wise to track the workers and their mishandlings of tools/resources via data points. This should be done in a personal way, in a face to face conversation. Otherwise I expect big push backs and a loss of trust. C.Hols

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I would thank for the effort but remind about the importance of commitment by the workforce based on mutual trust and appreciative togetherness which could be harmed by this approach.
Felix

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I would thank for the effort but remind about possible negative reactions of different stakeholders due to potential ethical issues and greater harm to the brand image than benefits in cost saving.
Felix

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Thank the boss for his idea and pointing out an area for the company to possibly improve.

Explain that the idea does infringe on some company obligations or impact on security risks (worker safety, data privacy, business risks, unwanted sharing of trade secrets, ...).

While this specific idea might not make sense to implement, there might be other, feasible solutions yielding the wanted improvement. If the boss wants, you could deliver some related proposals (the size of this endeavor to be determined by the boss's priority against all the other activities and ideas).

The company's innovation process should be used to track and report back on these activities.

Winfried

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Thank the colleague for his idea, acknowledge that there is an opportunity to improve.

Explain why the proposed solution is not feasible (due to worker safety, data privacy, ...). Ask the colleague to think again and check his ideas against the known boundaries before stepping forward. Maybe you can offer help with ideation and evaluation.

Winfried

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Thank the employee for the observation "from the warehouse floor" and the great insight and willingness to help the company improve
Explain that the proposed solution is not feasible (due to worker safety, data privacy, ...)
Open the door to the future: While this specific solution is not viable, another one may be possible. Invite the employee to think about other solutions to the underlying problem which might be actually viable and try again.

Winfried

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It is important to make clear that Sydnes ideas are at the very beginning of the innovation funnel. They are great ideas, that need further investigation and research to be turned into commercializable ideas. Thus, Sydnes should continue to generate ideas but not jump to implementation directly, but follow all steps in the innovation funnel
Jan Bülles

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This idea should be rejected for several reasons: employees should not be tracked with sensors on their equipment for cultural, social, and legal reasons.
It is worth investigating if a productivity issue exists and find other ways to solve it and increase productivity. Maybe training or incentives could help
Jan Bülles

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As safety is a top priority in a warehouse, this idea cannot be implemented as proposed. Eliminating the sensors can lead to real accidents being undetected, with far-reaching consequences.. however, the problem at hand seems logical and another solution might be feasible (e.g. finding a way to reduce the 10minutes waiting time)

Jan Bülles

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In addition to the privacy issue, I would ask Jackie to start with the problem she wants to solve (& why she thinks that's a problem in the first place). Based on the problem, I would ask Jackie if she could think of other solutions that tackle the root causes.

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Great idea. I would definitely encourage him to research further as we will not decide on outsourcing to Africa right away but at least give him the heads-up for the initiative. This is a right move.

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Applying sensors on employees equipment should be rejected straight away in any environment. Furthermore this has also huge legal implications as a system like that enables the company to track employees.

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More business reasoning is essential, but again not for every price. Long-term costs of sickness are also crucial for efficiency.

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Again - appreciation and thanking for the idea. Explain again that efficiency needs to be in balance with security. But the topic of digitilazation is important. Maybe ask if there are more ideas around that topic.

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Appreciate and thanks the person for the effort, but explain him that security is prior number one. But maybe there are different ideas which affect that warehouse. So I would use his initiative to screen ideas that he can elaborate on different aspects. Also he good be a a good spoc/sparring for other ideas.

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Only the attempt to save money in exchange for potentially threatening lives is destroying trust and image. That's why the idea must be refused. But the rationale behind it is absolutely right. Maybe you should consider readjusting the blocking time or ameliorating the sensors ... that would be a good approach.

Philipp Reuhl

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While cutting cost is a plus, I see a lot of potential downsides. Lowering of quality, sustainability and social responsibility issues, ethical considerations, preventing innovation - just to name a few.

Anastasia

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The idea will be seen as surveillance and control mechanism by the employees and is unlikely to receive support from workers, as they got a lot to lose from it and not much to gain. I would advice to refine the idea in terms of how it can actually help the employees on their job before submitting it again.

Anastasia

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The idea compromises on safety, which is the highest priority in a warehouse. Even if they prevent only 2 accidents per year, the sensors are well worth the associated time cost. I would thank the employee for the initiative, but make him aware of the safety priority that he would need to adhere to when proposing further ideas (which he is still welcome to).

Anastasia

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To outsource the production of such an important component to another partner is a big step and carefully needs to be evaluated. While the lower costs of production are a good argument to look into this option, it is crucial to assess many other factors (e.g. quality, reliability, infrastructure to assure timely delivery, political stability etc.).
Daniel Franke

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While the idea has good motives and a potential to increase the productivity, it the monitoring of individual employees can create pressure and discomfort among the employees which is unwanted and can even have negative effects on other dimensions (e.g. culture). Therefore, the idea is a good starting point and can be refined in a way that the data can be gathered and used in other ways (e.g. for training purposes).
Daniel Franke

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It is important to show appreciation for the idea and the efforts to improve the productivity of the company. Then, make very clear that the safety of employees is crucial and while his idea might have some positive impact on productivity, it can be detrimental in emergency cases. So considering this factor, the idea may be improved and submitted again.
Daniel Franke

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I agree with what has been said already. Monitoring of employees cannot be the solution, even though the approach is innovative. I would argue that we need to take care of the human factor at this point. Also be aware that especially in Germany workers council would never accept solutions like that.
P. Petrick

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I agree with Valentina that we need more information and details about potential outsourcing measures and transparency about all aspects (political, economical, etc.) regarding the options for Eastern African country. We should analyse this possibilities in detail. Just accepting the idea because of some (unnamed) Chinese factories doing so too is no reason for us.
P. Petrick

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Safety of employees is most important and the company/bosses carry a duty of care for their employees. So they cant risk any potential threats.
I would rather argue or try to discuss adaption of this suggestion in a sense that we could work on improvement on sensitivity of sensors to avoid these false alarms.
Patricia Petrick

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Appreciating his effort and the good alanytical work he has done to identify some causes of production delay. Point out that however, safety of eployees at any time has highest priority and we cannot make any compromises there. Encourage him to nevertheless continue sharing his ideas on improving process efficiency in the future
Vanessa

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Explain the impact in the organization when you are willing to implement the idea in the company. Share responsibilty and say that he has to take the responsibility for that.
Than ask again, if he want to implement it.
Thomas Borovik

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The intention of the idea well-defined. But the implementation phase is crucial because of employees duties (e.g. in Germany).
Iterate on the intention of idea and find another way that apply with the law.
Thomas Borovik

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I would agree with his idea, but then explain the conditions (safety first). He should think about it and come back with a modified idea where the conditions are considered.
Thomas Borovik

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The idea should first be further evaluated and designed, as just saying "others are doing it too" does not indicate any clear added value.
Matthias Lehmann

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Point out that you probably wouldn't like it yourself to be monitored in such a close way and that it could lead to resentment in the workforce.
Matthias Lehmann

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Clearly point out that while the idea is a good one, it is simply not feasible due to the company's responsibility and liability obligations for employee safety.
Matthias Lehmann

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It might depend where the company is located. For sure in Germany this will lead to serious problems because of monitoring and overseeing the employees although the idea behind it might be commendable
Florian Becker

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Basically the idea to save time and become more efficient is not bad but this should not be done in danger of the health and safety of the people even in rare cases. If there is a serious incident with impact just once it may have enormous impact.
Florain Becker

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We need more info and more details in business plan. Also moving developing one of the key element to outsource can be risky because of loosing quality, expertise and loosing control
Valentina Zakovryazhina

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Even rare cases means that we should not risk for someone life and employee safty is the prio one even if it would save sometime. It is better to think about how to improve sensors effectivity and improve the reaction
Valentina Zakovryazhina

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This idea is only on a draft level. You cannot do a business idea only by reading one newspaper article.

Marcel Braun

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The core approach is very well, but the data which could be generated additionally is problematical regarding staff monitoring.

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The core approach is very well, but the data which could be generated additionally is problematical regarding staff monitoring.

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Marcel Braun

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In this case I would also reject the idea, because the savings will be in regarding employees safty.
Marcel Braun

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Price advantage perhaps yes, but risks must also be evaluated

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Price advantage perhaps yes, but risks must also be evaluated

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such a decision cannot be made on the basis of a newspaper article. Further analyses must be carried out here before a decision can be made. The relocation to eastern African countries could also entail certain risks, which also need to be evaluated. This creates dependencies and at the same time fundamentally changes the supply chain.

Marcel Meyer

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Great idea with the wrong ulterior motive which meets with no acceptance

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Great idea with the wrong ulterior motive which meets with no acceptance

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A great idea that can help increase productivity.
However, this should not be about identifying unproductive employees and for sure not be mentioned in such context.
Rather, it can be a great way to offer this as a training opportunity so that employees can improve even further. If necessary, this can be done as a voluntary pilot program to gain acceptance among the workforce step by step.
By increasing productivity, the employee also has the opportunity to gain a personal benefit through incentives.

Marcel Meyer

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Sensitivity Analysis & Review of incentive system (productivity targets)

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Sensitivity Analysis & Review of incentive system (productivity targets)

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I absolutely agree with my peers, safety comes first.

Nevertheless I would pick up the issues adressed by Taylor, promising to act on them.
Perhaps eliminating sensors is not the right solution, but doing an analysis on the sensitivity of those sensors and if they are adjusted right brings new insights.

The second issue adressed is the negative impact on the incentive system for employees - on that the company needs to act, as those downtimes cannot be at the expense of the employees who cannot do anything about it.

Marcel Meyer

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I do think this idea should not take Google Maps as a model, rather GPS navigation only with instructions via voice. Even in this case, it should be validated if it does not breach security rules.

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I do think this idea should not take Google Maps as a model, rather GPS navigation only with instructions via voice. Even in this case, it should be validated if it does not breach security rules.

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Katerina

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From my perspective, there is no way to increase the speed limit even while using the cameras, again from security reasons. The only way would be set up one way aisles without possibility to cross it from the side, if warehouse would allow such a setting.

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From my perspective, there is no way to increase the speed limit even while using the cameras, again from security reasons. The only way would be set up one way aisles without possibility to cross it from the side, if warehouse would allow such a setting.

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Katerina

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I can understand an attempt to gather the data for further analysis, but not at cost of security sacrifice. Thus a way forward could be to connect forklifts via sensors only in a passive way without disturbing communication.

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I can understand an attempt to gather the data for further analysis, but not at cost of security sacrifice. Thus a way forward could be to connect forklifts via sensors only in a passive way without disturbing communication.

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Katerina

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This idea should be evaluated more deeply. Business decisions should not be made on one single newspaper article.
Melissa

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I understand the approach of Jackie to increase productivity, however I do not think that this is a very fair solution for the employees. Maybe you can settle an incentive for productive employees, instead of "punishing" others.
Melissa

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I agree with my peers to "better be safe than sorry", however I think there is room for improvement regarding the sensors. Maybe you can reduce the automatic stop to 1-2min, and one has to confirm the false alarm by pressing a seperate button so that the system can restart.
Melissa

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I think the decision to outsource a key system of the forklift should not be made hastily. The arguments for or against outsourcing needs to be carefully weighed against each other. A potential gain in production costs and the fact that the "Chinese also do it" is a very limited analysis. What about potential risks in the supply chain? Will the quality level keep up? What about the working conditions in that country - do they comply with our code of conduct? etc.
Christian

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I agree with the  the attempt to assess data to improve productivity. But it should not be used to identify unproductive workers - this has a negative touch for me. Maybe the system can be modified so that only the employee himself gets individual feedback and adapts his movements for better productivity (and maybe even some hints that help him to avoid unfavorable movements that might bring him chronic disease in the long-term). For the management, the data can be anonymized to get transparency at least on higher level)
Christian

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I also agree that safety comes first. I would leave the 10min. interval as it is, but check on the sensors if they can be changed or properly configured to produce less false alarms.
Christian

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Although the idea has the potential to save money by reducing production costs, we don't support practically slave labour conditions. Therefore, at least in the sort-term, we will focus on projects that have similar economic potential without any impact in our brand image.
Borja Alonso

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Although the idea has the potential to save time, improve performance and therefore become more profitable, we cannot value with money the wellbeing and privacy of our employees. Therefore, at least in the sort-term, we will focus on projects that have similar economic potential without any impact in our employees well-being.
Borja Alonso

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Although the idea has the potential to save time and therefore money, we cannot value with money the safety of our employees. Therefore, at least in the sort-term, we will focus on projects that have similar economic potential without any impact in our employees safety.
Borja Alonso