Hi Everyone,
On Thursday we discussed the creation of an R&D group within our team that would help us drive innovation and improvement.
The objectives of this team are to help us meet the business needs around reducing costs, durations and any other criteria as they are raised.
All of the people in this mail are kindly requested to join this group. There are multiple reasons for why you have been selected including:
1. You have a large range of different experiences in the team (Some have large company experience, some SME only etc)
2. You are culturally diverse (some of you have little Venda experience, some have significantly more)
3. You have a good spread of positions (team lead, senior, experienced and some more junior members)
4. You all have familiarity with the product
We had a initial brainstorming session this morning, focusing on the JML issue. Those people that were in that session were able to generate a number of possible solutions to the issue, which kind of demonstrates that this is the right team for the job as stated above. Results from that session are attached as an image. You all did well this morning to get so many good ideas out and voted on given that many management hours have already been expended on that topic and only 1 of your ideas had previously been identified.
Over the next week or so, we will be moving to align the reporting lines in NS, start planning out the first of the innovations and providing you with more information on the work.
If you have any questions or comments please let me know.