University of Liverpool embraces reuse with Warp It

'I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.'

-Simon Cowell

Welcome! If you’ve seen our other signpost articles on getting people to buy in to your ideas, and the benefits of Warp It to the healthcare sector, just to name a couple, then you’ll know how this page functions.

If it’s your first visit to one of our signposts, here’s a quick explanation:

We have collected all of our articles and interviews that relate to a certain topic and we give a link and an introduction to each one, all on this page. In this instance, we are talking about how to improve collaboration and build support for reuse.

It’s hard to manage interns (or is it?).

They’re young, energetic, and often require a large time investment. If you didn’t ask for an intern, you might feel that they’re in your way. If your intern isn’t performing well, it may be easy to blame them (though it’s not usually their fault). And, if your intern is costing you more than they’re repaying the organisation, you might start to get a little resentful.

Managing interns can be a tricky thing to navigate, but it doesn’t need to be.

Over the last few years we’ve worked and engaged with dozens of organisations who have a fully-fledged internship system, and a whole lot more who are making increased efforts to welcome interns into their organisation.

Did you know that you can take a look at Warp It’s best performers for thirteen different categories?

It’s true, go ahead, take a look, you can see who the best individual user is, or you can see which organisation has saved the most carbon - it’s all there for you to view.

This article is all about how we help universities around the globe reduce environmental impact and maximise the value of their surpus assets like furniture, equipment, stationery and even fleet!

Warp It’s founder, Daniel, was talking to Jonathan Latko from Temple University in Philadelphia about how he made a business case for the development of surplus asset reuse in the university.

One of the most striking things he shared was how he would look at an existing process and do a time-motion study on it.

Warp It’s founder Daniel O’Connor is here to talk from personal experience, through interesting anecdotes, about how you can provide sensible logic to your boss or director to get them interested in reuse. Daniel has recruited most of the UK’s universities, councils and regional NHS facilities onto our furniture reuse software, so you can trust that he has a lot of experience working with senior management and decision makers.

It is vital to keep your members up to date with the progress you are making in your reuse project.

Keeping up with your users might seem like a tough task, but with all of the technology we have available to us now, making articles and sending them out via social media , newsletters, intranet or more traditional means is a pretty straightforward process.