Award Winning Partnerships GKN Aerospace recently won the Financial Times Innovation award by partnering with a media law firm for their staff to share best practices. Applying the "pay per hour philosophy" GKN engineers improved their efficiency across the business. They also took a lot from their recruitment process, saving 75% of their existing talent acquisition budget.. Meanwhile the law firm benefited from GKN's advancement in shop floor management, work flow and process management. Learn how to partner with those you might not feel would be a fit and understand how best to learn from the experience

1. Award winning partnerships
When two worlds collide: lawyers and engineers
Paul Adams

2. You might think lawyers and
engineers are worlds apart..
www.olswang.com
But there are more similarities
than you might think

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8. 75% recruitment
lead time reduction
applying ‘Olswang’
thinking
How did GKN benefit?

9. Increased
department
profitability 20%
What was in it for
Olswang?
Single piece flow

10. Source: https://hbr.org/2010/04/defend-your-research-imitation-is-more-valuable-than-innovation

11. The ability to copy is often the first step to innovation
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