1 Oct 2024Start
1 Jun 2026End
Mind4change
Prepare railway staff for cultural changes linked to digital and technical innovation
Status: Ongoing projectSector: Safety PlatformProject reference: M4C · P000801Duration: 2 years
Objectives
- Prepare the operational staff, managers, and leaders' mindset for digital, technological innovations, and societal evolution.
- Facilitating cultural change by avoiding and anticipating resistance to change at all levels of the organisation
- Enhancing human and organisational performance, and improving operational safety and excellence.
- Create a digital interactive environment providing solutions for future transformation and competency development, to improve the educational and training experience for the existing and future railway workforce
Scope
- Accompany the digital and technical innovations with real cultural changes
- Inspire a change of mentality & cultural practices in the way staff are trained and learn
- Imagining the design of a workplace as the place for learning par excellence
Planned deliverables
- 30/12/2023Learning lab for cultural changesPast
- 30/12/2024Guidelines of recommendations and best practicesPast
- 30/12/2025Dissemination and communicationPast
Strategy for implementation
Create a learning/analysis lab for cultural change to achieve a consistent mindset change.
- Identify the main levers and barriers to cultural changes
- Identify best practices for operational cultural change
Set up operational recommendations on how to engage and support employees, middle management and the top management in this process.
Dissemination and communication
- Capitalise all data, recommendations, and best practices in the RAIL HOF Digital Platform
- Organise a final event to share experience on cultural changes
Advantages for railways
- Enhance safety performance by taking better account of digital and technical innovations.
- Anticipate and accelerate the shaping transformation of employees in rail automation and digitalisation
- Reduce resistance to digital changes
- Improve operational excellence for tomorrow's world
