INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY

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INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY

• - At Hull University Union now and future.
• - The SUEI Perspective
• Comparison of different unions via an exercise.

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At Hull University Union -

• Pre SUEI Innovation was not a particular
  strength!
• SUEI taught us that we were merely tinkering
  with old ideas, being too insular and not
  collaborating enough both within the Union
  movement and outside bodies.

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Improvements and Ideas during the process

• Virtual Dee an on-line receptionist who can
  answer queries from students any time of day or
  night.
• On-line student handbook sent out on USB pen
  instead of paper copy.
• Virtual Bank Accounts for Societies linked into
  our accounting system so they can check
  expenditure and progress.

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Improvements continued

• Various staff reward schemes duvet days, team
  of term.
• Staff lunchtime intra-mural football league.
• Costed electronic Staff Rota for commercial areas.

• Internal Staff Learning and Development Team.
• Now Discover your Strengths programme for
  managers and officers.
• Virtual Police Officer

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Improvements continued

• Social networking - commission based links
  system, enabling students to earn money through
  tickets sales.
• Bluetooth server in Commercial areas will allow
  messages to be sent wirelessly to student
  customers.

• Use of internal P.A system to
• advertise current events
• and news around The
• building.
• Use of webcams for Scarborough
• Campus for advice centre
• support.

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Plans to be more innovative

• Participation and Recreation Survey.
• Beach Tournament bringing 2 campuses together.
• Fresh Air Fitness.
• Central Resources Electronic folder

• Setting up a Design and Print service to extend
  our service externally.
• Mini-site rewards and incentives.
• Create Virtual Sabbatical Officer.

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Further plans Enterprise Involvement.

• Assisting the University to help promote 3
  strands which will lead to ideas to be used by
  the union
• 1. Student Enterprise clubs/societies
• 2. Academic Enterprise linking degrees to
  commercial activity eg music degree commercial
  band.
• 3. External Enterprise working with local
  industries and ideas e.g Xing Smoothies.

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SUEI Perspective and Involvement

• Highlighted our weaker areas and focussed us on
  what needs to be done and made us think!!!
• Networking ensured sharing ideas and best
  practise from other unions.
• SUEI guidance on allocating resources for looking
  to the future with planning, external sources,
  changing student demographics and University
  Strategic plan.
• Evaluation and review of the new creative ideas
  will ensure that we are continually meeting our
  customers needs and wants.

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SUEI Practice Exercise

• B 1.2 Innovative Development.
• Split into 4 groups and take 1 strand per group
  for how you would evidence for your unions
• 1- Adequate resources for future planning.
• 2- Investigate future options from external
  sources.
• 3- Analyse future trends in student demographics.
• 4- Consider how University Strategic Plan may
  link.

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Some Suggested Inspiration

• Read Richard Bransons Business Stripped Bare -
  includes chapter on Innovation.
• Along with Virgin, Apple, Google, Virgle!
• Any other organisations that inspire?