Enabling 21st century teamwork and collaboration

When our teams work at their best by collaborating with our supply chain, clients and their customers, we deliver outstanding projects. Digital technology can help empower our teams in several ways. When working with documents and files, our offices are completely paperless, using the latest cloud technology with easy-to-use processes for sharing, checking and approving.

Covid-19 had a positive impact when it came to us learning how to work in smarter, more agile ways using technology. We quickly adapted to using video calls and our design and office-based staff have now adopted agile working, allowing our staff to work in different locations and in a more flexible way that suits their own work-life balance, that of their teams, and of our clients.

On our sites we are deploying the latest smartphones and tablets to employees, to ensure they have everything they need to collaborate in the same way as office-based colleagues. Even our collaborative planning has gone digital - from post-it notes on the walls of the site cabins to digital whiteboards that can be accessed on any device.

Microsoft 365

We deployed Office 365 and the full suite of tools it comprises back in 2016. The applications go beyond Word, Excel and PowerPoint and towards modern collaboration tools such as SharePoint, Teams and Viva Engage. These are used to great effect in our organisation to empower staff to work out loud, connect with communities of interest across the world, and work in an agile and secure way that suits them.

Access to the Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, etc) is allowing citizen technologists to automate their own workflows and get insight from data to enable them to be more efficient and offer even more innovative solutions to our clients.

Site tablets and smartphones

Throughout 2023 we are deploying the latest IoS (Apple) devices to employees based on site, ensuring they can access the apps that they need to make their job easier.

Miro digital whiteboard

Miro can be used for collaborative planning, meeting sprints, workshops and a lot more. When used for collaborative planning on a project, it allows all stakeholders to understand their role, what they need to do and how their actions might affect others.