Digitalisation for businesses
Upskill employees and explore ways to improve productivity, save time and money whilst trialling data automation solutions.
Smaller companies typically struggle to find the time, money or in-house skills to start automating data collection using their legacy, analogue set up. Shoestring breaks these barriers by providing an easy way to get started with simple, low-cost solutions that employees can quickly learn to build and deploy. The experience encourages everyone to seek ways to improve the business, strengthening leadership and innovation skills along the way.
Get started quickly with Shoestring
Mentored self-start
Funded programme
Digital needs workshop
Companies reveal how Shoestring helped
Discover how quickly companies realise the benefits Shoestring brings – from upskilling staff and shifting the culture to one more open to change, to seeing tangible benefits as staff learn how to use off-the-shelf technologies.
Case Study: Orthogonal
Read John Niven’s LinkedIn blog on how Shoestring helped improve quality assurance.
Case Study: Shelter Brewing Company
Discover how a brewer, a butcher and a winery used Shoestring to improve their productivity and sustainability as part of the Western Australian government’s Food and Beverage Innovation Programme.
Mentored self-start
Learn a simple approach using low-cost technologies to see first-hand how digitalisation improves productivity and employee skills. Shoestring’s mentored self-start programme, open to all UK companies, is conducted online over a period of 10 weeks, designed to fit alongside your day job. The programme demystifies off-the-shelf technologies and teaches non-technical staff to build and deploy an automated monitoring system that addresses one of the company’s top business needs. Each participant chooses a solution that will make their job easier and provide their company with a business benefit. Have a look at the range of solutions on offer and find out how the technical support programme works.
Choose a solution
Job
location tracking
Power
monitoring
Scrap
monitoring
Downtime
monitoring
Air quality
monitoring
Funded programmes
Find out if there is a funded programme in your region, run by one of your regional business support organisations or local authority, or if there is a skills bootcamp organised by your local further education provider.
Digital needs workshop
This interactive workshop helps you identify your top business needs and discover which digital solution areas will address them. Working alongside your industry peers, you discover how similar your challenges are and how low-cost technologies can provide simple digital solutions. Check out our events page to see if there is a workshop in your region.
Or contact us to set one up in association with your local industry group.
