Many of the organisations we talk to do not have any kind of asset reuse going on.

Some are right at the start of their reuse journey.

Warp It would like to introduce Nick Fayers for your reading pleasure. Nick is the Divisional Energy and Environmental Manager at Nottinghamshire Healthcare. He’s a wealth of knowledge when it comes to:

• Asset reuse in a large bureaucratic organisation
• Making the case for the continued investment in reuse
• Dealing with organisational structural problems when you are pushing for one objective

Nick’s experience with implementing reuse in Nottinghamshire Healthcare has been challenging but rewarding, as you’re about to learn. Some of the challenges are organisational issues that highlight some vitally important procedural barriers that need to be overcome. Which are worth highlighting!

Your big issue = How to manage transport

This guide is here to provide a couple of simple, bite-sized tips for more effectively managing transport and logistics on a large estate. We have various features which mean that transport of items is made as easy as possible.  You cannot get away from the fact that items have to be transported but this article will help you get your transport as effective as possible.

How will implementing Warp It affect transport?

When items become surplus they have to be moved.  They can either be moved to the skip/dumpster...or they can be moved for reuse.

Will the transport department be overwhelmed with new transport jobs? We do not see this happening at new customer system because behaviour change and culture change is slow. It never changes over night. The transport department will see a slight rise in requests which will grow slowly over time.

If you are concerned about the transport system being overwhelmed you might seek to roll out your system incrementally. See here.

Daniel's super simple step-by-step guide to changing culture in organisations

Step 1: Identify the people who are decision makers 

Your organisation is on a reuse journey.

We want to be helpful, we want your reuse system to succeed and we want you to feel like Warp It is here to support you (which we are!).  Part of developing a reuse programme is making the business case which demonstrates a Return On Investment (ROI).

"We do not have storage, so we cannot reuse"

This is one of the most common reasons institutions do not explore reuse after the first assessment meeting.

However, we say to customers, ‘Why would you want storage? It’s expensive to own, expensive to run, and time consuming to manage.’

If we could match surplus assets with new homes, while they are still in their original position, would that change things?

It would. We know it would.

We were awarded "NHS Supplier of the Year" at the NHS Sustainability Awards last Thursday!

The NHS is one of Britain’s proudest achievements. And today its staff do a superb job treating record numbers of patients. 

We are proud and honoured to help our NHS customers save millions of pounds by making it easy to reuse surplus furniture and equipment without the need for storage.

Thank you to all our customers who push us to be better at solving their surplus furniture and equipment problems.

28% of company time is spent on reading and responding to email

The number 2 distraction at work is emails. (Number one is other colleagues!)

Why is distraction a problem?  Because it stops you getting what you REALLY need to get done.