How to Create a Buzz Around Your Project With Incremental Rollouts

This article is going to give you some invaluable tips for rolling out projects across large organisations. We are going to talk about how to effectively introduce a reuse programme across an organisation, however, in reality, it could be applied to almost any project that affects a large majority of employees. 

We are also going to give you a brief step by step guide at the end.

These tips will interest anyone making change in an organisation. However will be especially applicable to our customers in facilities management, sustainability, waste, procurement, building decant and finance. 

 Benefits of rolling out a project incrementally

 Rolling out a project incrementally across your estate/ estates can reduce risk and increase participation, subsequently making the project a greater success. It also makes introducing projects considerably cheaper. It reduces mistakes and as such, makes rolling out projects quicker. An incremental approach also embeds projects much more meaningfully, which allows them to have a lasting change with limited upset or push back.

We spend a lot of our time in large organisations rolling out reuse programmes or creating the architecture to roll out reuse programmes.  

If you roll out a project or reuse programme all in one go, to everybody in the organisation, if it goes wrong or if there's a problem, it can undermine the whole initiative.

How to create a buzz around your project     

A positive side effect of this incremental rollout is that you create a buzz about the project through word of mouth amongst the staff. When you have this word of mouth, you're going to get staff coming to you saying "Hey, when are we going to get this next?".

Scarcity does something weird to humans.

So, then you create a waiting list, and limit supply of the new service, change of practice, and when you've got a waiting list, something really interesting happens...

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