Project information
- Acronym: M4C
- Prepare railway staff for cultural changes linked to digital and technical innovation
- Sector: Safety Platform
- Project start date: 01/10/2024
- Project end date: 06/2026
- Duration: 2 years
- Project manager: Virginie Papillault
- Status: ongoing project
- Project code: P000801
Objectives
- Prepare the operational staff, managers, and leaders’ mindset for digital, technological innovations, and societal evolution.
- Facilitating cultural change by avoiding and anticipating resistance to change at all levels of the organisation
- Enhancing human and organisational performance, and improving operational safety and excellence.
- Create a digital interactive environment providing solutions for future transformation and competency development, to improve the educational and training experience for the existing and future railway workforce
Scope
- Accompany the digital and technical innovations with real cultural changes
- Inspire a change of mentality & cultural practices in the way staff are trained and learn
- Imagining the design of a workplace as the place for learning par excellence
Planned deliverables
- 30 / 12 / 2023: Learning lab for cultural changes
- 30 / 12 / 2024: Guidelines of recommendations and best practices
- 30 / 12 / 2025: Dissemination and communication
Strategy for implementation
1. Create a learning/analysis lab for cultural change to achieve a consistent mindset change.
- Identify the main levers and barriers to cultural changes
- Identify best practices for operational cultural change
2. Set up operational recommendations on how to engage and support employees, middle management and the top management in this process.
3. Dissemination and communication
- Capitalise all data, recommendations, and best practices in the RAIL HOF Digital Platform
- Organise a final event to share experience on cultural changes
Advantages for railways
- Enhance safety performance by taking better account of digital and technical innovations.
- Anticipate and accelerate the shaping transformation of employees in rail automation and digitalisation
- Reduce resistance to digital changes
- Improve operational excellence for tomorrow’s world
