Refreshed reuse drive for University of Salford saves over £30k in less than a year

Why recording mini wins is the path to success!

Sometimes it feels like we are trying to swim in treacle. It all seems too difficult and it feels like we don't have the energy to get through the week. 

In this article I talk about one of the methods that keep me going, keep me happy and keeps me appreciative and persistant.

Read for yourself and see if this technique can help you find balance in your day to day life.

The advice is very simple- I write down my mini wins over the day. It might be just one. When i am feeling like I am in a bit of a dip, and making no progress, I look back over my mini wins for a booster!

You can download a template to help you keep track of your min wins and we are also giving a way a little book called "The Path of the Doer" below.

Warp It are pleased to welcome Smita Shetty from NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group to discuss how the organisation is attempting business improvements using new digital technologies.

In this article we are going to explore:

Every month we share a few things that we’ve spotted that inspire, amuse and entertain.

It's September 2017 and each month we want your opinion on various issues. 

In return we’ll compile a short report with the findings and share it with you to help you build your skills, knowledge and overall resilience.

What’s more, everyone who contributes will also be entered into a prize draw!

Each month we scour the web and our knowledge for tips, tricks and tools to help you tackle different challenges and become better! This month we point you to a great guide to build resilience in your kids...(actually it has worked quite well on me too) and we give you a run down of the best free video editing software.

Warp It are thankful to Clare Swift for giving us a few minutes to share some of her invaluable knowledge and talk about the impact of a really cool project she is a part of. As a decision-maker at North East Ambulance Service NHS, Clare was given the responsibility of finding ways to improve the environmental performance of their many sites in a way that did not negatively affect team members and would also provide cost savings.

This blog post is all about getting your own way when someone says:

"You can't do that” or "We can't do that."

This article is aimed at making change in organisations but this could be applied to any walk of life.

It's all about the freedom that is gifted by tweaking a request or proposal, with an open and exploratory attitude.

We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Clare Topping, Energy and Sustainability Manager at Northampton General Hospital. Also known as a Green Ninja, Clare’s sheer passion for waste and all things sustainable really shines through and is thoroughly infectious!

This blog post is about how a large organisation is using Warp It to reuse and cascade their IT assets throughout the organisaition , as well as donating externally- to maximise the value of the assets.

Warp It have built relationships with so many of our wonderful customers, none less so than Alan Peddie, who manages the Warp It portal at the University of Edinburgh. We invited Alan to speak frankly about his experience of using Warp It and how it has:

• Redistrinbuting IT assets internally
• Facilitated donation of assets to the charity sector

• Benefited the IT department

• Encouraged refurbishment as well as reuse

• Helped over 500 computers get refurbished instead of recycled externally

• Given Alan a very unique superhero-style nickname!