Transcript for the SouthernBroadstock: Knowledge Transfer Partnership video embedded on the SouthernBroadstock case study page.
[The screen shows a view of Leeds city centre with the title ‘Knowledge Transfer Partnership’.]
[Music]
[Tim Worne, managing director of Southern Broadstock office furniture supply and manufacture, appears on the screen. He is seated in front of the camera.]
[Tim Worne says:] “We were four individual businesses. What we hadn't done is really started an integration process.
We worked with Professor Chee to help us bring everything together from a supply chain point of view.
[Professor Chee Yew Wong, from Leeds University Business School, appears on the screen. He is seated in front of the camera.]
[Professor Chee Yew Wong says:] “And I help the company to understand how different pieces of information from different parts of the supply chain can be put together and make them even more intelligent in the way they manage the operations.
But we need the third-party service, which is the associate, to transfer knowledge from the university to the company.
[Michael Park, Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate in Supply Chain Development at Southern Broadstock, appears on the screen. He is seated in front of the camera.]
[Michael Park says:] Professor Chee Wong gave me access to anything that I needed from the University. I was given a significant amount of time every week to be able to meet with him and meet with other professors.
And having the insights from them really helped shape the model.
[Professor Chee Yew Wong appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Professor Chee Yew Wong says:] The associate also plays a very important role by telling us what he or she learned from the companies.
We want to learn as well as respond to new challenges.
[Michael Park appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Michael Park says:] I was able to automate a large portion of the jobs that the sales team had to do on a day-to-day basis and was able to save them tenfolds' worth of time in their day-to-day.
[Tim Worne appears on the screen, seated in front of the camera.]
[Tim Worne says:] The competitive advantage that we've gained through working on the KTP is quite vast, I would say.
[The video ends with a screen displaying the text “Contact our Knowledge Transfer Partnership team: email ktp@leeds.ac.uk or call 0113 343 0928.]