[Innovation on the Front Line] Innovation Studio: How to make empowerment truly land?
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Technological innovation cannot only be concentrated on a few "elites", and innovation studios should stimulate the enthusiasm of most employees to innovate.
What does a good innovation studio look like?
Several studio leaders said that it should become a research team for enterprise production, an incubator for talent training, and a vane for teamwork.
"Now the construction of some studios has a tendency to be exhibition halls. The last thing we want to see is that such a good platform cannot play a real role." A person in charge of an enterprise innovation studio said with emotion.
The employee innovation studio plays an important role in solving the bottleneck of technological development, cultivating talents in business operation and management, and promoting the sustainable development of the enterprise.
In actual operation, there is still a gap between the play of its role and the actual requirements. The employee innovation studio also needs to continue to innovate and improve, which will empower enterprises and employees.
Build an ascending channel and ignite the ability to change skills
Xu Luping was originally an ordinary laborer in the China Railway Fourth Bureau.
He loves learning, researching, and tinkering. In 2009, Xu Luping invented an automatic steel strand threading machine at the Xiatang beam-making yard of the Hebong high-speed railway, which alone saved nearly 3 million yuan in cost for the project.
During his work, he has innovated and transformed various techniques, procedures and tools more than 70 times.
From small masons to inventors on construction sites, from migrant workers to winners of the National May 1st Labor Medal, Xu Luping perfectly interprets the spirit of great craftsmen.
In 2016, "Xu Luping Model Worker Innovation Studio" was established, and the successful lives of ordinary workers inspired a group of young people who love technological transformation.
Aspiring young employees are working on key projects such as single-hole connectors, third-generation internal jacks, extension anchors, and grouting pumps in the studio. Only the third-generation internal jacks are used, and one beam field is used every year. You can save 300,000 yuan.
"Technological innovation cannot only be concentrated on a few 'elites'. The goal of the innovation studio is to make most employees never dare to create, not everyone, and rush to create." Fan Rui, vice chairman of the Zhongyuan Oilfield Trade Union, felt deeply.
According to reports, the oilfield collects employees' technical innovation ideas from various grass-roots trade unions, and pushes employees' good ideas and small ideas to the "Maker Workers Central Plains Forum" held every year, and the head of the innovation studio will demonstrate and evaluate in person. , select the best innovative and creative golden ideas, and give awards to them.
The concept of "workers with skills are more powerful" has long been in the minds of employees in Zhongyuan Oilfield. The company has carried out skills competitions such as the "Zhongyuan Craftsman Cup" around themes such as skill upgrades and innovative tackling, forming a "comparing to learning and helping to surpass". With a strong atmosphere, many masters with real swords and real guns emerge every year in the oil field.
In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of employees for skill innovation, the oilfield has provided high funds to reward newly promoted technicians and senior technicians, and recommended the transformation projects of outstanding employees' innovation achievements to relevant units, so as to broaden the green channel for skilled workers to grow into talents.
Unblock the synergy mechanism and expand the alliance effect
A few days ago, Feng Zhigang, a senior technician of the Zhongyuan Oilfield Oil and Gas Production Engineering Service Center, brought his apprentice to the Sha Yuwu Innovation Studio of Wenwei Oil Production Plant to discuss "a kind of pumping unit brake pad riveting" with Sha Yuwu, the leader of the innovation studio. Problems with special tool design drawings.
"Each oil production plant repairs brake pads on average 18 wells per month. Once this special tool is successfully developed, it will save nearly 300,000 yuan in costs every year, and at the same time reduce the labor intensity of operators to repair brake pads, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone." Feng Zhigang said.
Zhongyuan Oilfield breaks geographic regions, professional differences, etc., expands the cross-region, cross-industry, cross-unit and "maker alliance" aggregation effect of similar occupations, positions, and businesses, and plays the role of studio matrix to form a hierarchical alliance effect.
The oilfield has created an alliance mechanism of "one theme per year" to promote each "golden idea" to bear fruit, and in accordance with the principle of one incubating one for maturity, it organizes the innovative projects recommended by various innovation studios to connect with the oilfield innovation achievement incubation base for feasibility and feasibility. Demonstration and incubation promotion.
The survey shows that due to the long-term independent innovation work of the employee innovation studio and the lack of a collaborative mechanism, its innovation face is single, especially its ability to undertake cross-professional, cross-industry, and cross-regional cooperation projects is weak.
At the end of 2021, the Shanghai Xuhui District Employee Innovation Studio Alliance was established.
It is understood that the alliance is formed by 33 innovation studios, covering more than 10 industries such as medical care, education, construction, food, property, community governance, telecommunications, and city greening.
Among the 33 studio leaders, there are 7 national model workers, 11 Shanghai model workers, and 11 craftsmen at all levels.
The relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Staff Technical Association Service Center said that exploring the establishment of a cross-category, cross-industry, and cross-unit innovation studio alliance will help collaborative innovation and intensive development, making it an important part of promoting the construction of industrial workers and cultivating technologies in the new era. Talent innovation leading platform.
Break the bottleneck of the system and get through the last mile
What should a good innovation studio look like?
In the interview, a number of studio leaders said that it should become the key point of the enterprise production team, the incubator for talent training and the direction of team cooperation. ".
Up to now, 1 national innovation studio, 8 provincial and ministerial innovation studios, and 38 oilfield innovation studios have emerged in Zhongyuan Oilfield, and 36 national invention patents have been obtained, with a cumulative efficiency increase of more than 200 million yuan.
However, more companies have not enjoyed the dividends brought by this platform.
Qiao Dong, a professor at the China Institute of Labor Relations, believes that the main purpose of the innovation studio is to cultivate a high-quality workforce for enterprises and to provide high-level innovation results for enterprises.
At present, there are mainly the following problems: some studios lack standards, ideas, venues, and teams during the creation process.
There are also problems of unclear positioning.
In terms of system construction, some studios have no system at all, and some systems are useless.
In the above phenomenon, the lack of attention of enterprises is the key factor.
How to solve the difficulties and get through the last mile of innovation?
Qiao Dong believes that the construction standards of innovation studios should be clear.
The creation of the studio must have leaders, brands, venues, teams, and effectiveness, and complete hardware and software.
At the same time, its functions need to be scientific.
The studio should focus on talent training and innovation achievements, decompose functions, clarify responsibilities, find out the exact position, and create a good atmosphere of imparting skills, innovation and efficiency.
In addition, the management of innovation studios by enterprises should be standardized.
Enterprises should set up a studio leading group and assist the studio in establishing work systems, activity systems and management methods.
The creation and operation of the studio should be incorporated into the top-ranking project of the party and government of the enterprise, and the support of the enterprise in terms of human, material and financial resources should be normalized.
Yin Xiaoyan