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| Source: TRA. |
The General Authority for Regulating the Telecommunications Sector (TRA) has launched initiatives to spur innovation internally. Employees now have more channels to share their ideas and contribute effectively to the development process.
TRA Abu Dhabi and Dubai headquarters host the Idea for Tomorrow initiative, which includes boards on all floors to enable employees to share their ideas in an easy, accessible way. TRA’s Innovation Committee will shortlist ideas that may contribute effectively to enhancing its services, working environment and the telecommunications sector.
Additionally, TRA also organised workshops that aim at introducing employees to the innovation framework and fostering its concept and vitality, in addition to training workshop’s participants on implementing innovative concepts and using innovation as an approach to solving all problems. The workshops introduced innovation best practices and techniques, in addition to brainstorming methods, defining constraints that affect innovation and ways to overcome them. Employees learned to develop decision-making methodology and enhanced goal prioritisation through creating an environment that enables and encourages innovative thinking.
TRA further launched the Interactive Innovation Gate which is an interactive internal network that enables employees to share their ideas with their colleagues. TRA believes that motivation play a vital role in the success of any initiative, and will incentivise the best innovative ideas with awards. Ideas will be assessed on how they contribute to TRA’s development, how effectively they lead to the development of new services, and whether they increase TRA’s income.
TRA Abu Dhabi and Dubai headquarters host the Idea for Tomorrow initiative, which includes boards on all floors to enable employees to share their ideas in an easy, accessible way. TRA’s Innovation Committee will shortlist ideas that may contribute effectively to enhancing its services, working environment and the telecommunications sector.
Additionally, TRA also organised workshops that aim at introducing employees to the innovation framework and fostering its concept and vitality, in addition to training workshop’s participants on implementing innovative concepts and using innovation as an approach to solving all problems. The workshops introduced innovation best practices and techniques, in addition to brainstorming methods, defining constraints that affect innovation and ways to overcome them. Employees learned to develop decision-making methodology and enhanced goal prioritisation through creating an environment that enables and encourages innovative thinking.
TRA further launched the Interactive Innovation Gate which is an interactive internal network that enables employees to share their ideas with their colleagues. TRA believes that motivation play a vital role in the success of any initiative, and will incentivise the best innovative ideas with awards. Ideas will be assessed on how they contribute to TRA’s development, how effectively they lead to the development of new services, and whether they increase TRA’s income.
HE Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, UAE TRA Director General, stated: “These initiatives reflect our strategic approach and shed the light on the restless efforts that we exert to fuel our employees’ innovative spirit by creating an environment that spurs innovation. The next seven years will be more challenging as they are going to achieve a quantum leap in UAE’s future. In light of this, we have to unite our efforts to encourage youth and motivate them to unleash their ideas through integrating them in the decision making process.”
Ahmed Al Falasi, TRA Human Resources (HR) Manager, stated “TRA adopts an innovative development strategy that is based on encouraging creative thinking, and improving employee’s leadership skills and confidence through integrating them into the development process and paying great attention to their ideas and opinions. TRA believes that the comprehensive innovative system that UAE is building has to be led by innovative leaders who are capable of facing future challenging, therefor, our HR strategy focuses on developing our employees’ leadership skills.”
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| Source: TRA. HE Al Mansoori inaugurated TRA’s Innovation Center at the TRA Dubai headquarters, in the presence of HE Ibrahim Abdul Malik Mohamed, the General Authority for Youth and Sports Welfare Secretary General. |
UAE Innovation Week witnessed the launch of TRA's Center of Innovation on November 23. The centre provides an environment that spurs innovation through rooms that can be rearranged for ad hoc brainstorming sessions in addition to small business meetings.
The centre also features a smart library that will contribute to enriching employees’ knowledge and broadening their horizons. The books, in English and Arabic, include Flashes of Thought and My Vision by HH Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid, in addition to other ICT-related books and publications. The library covers scientific and cultural topics, science fiction, and history in addition to periodicals that cover health, engineering, environment, nuclear and renewable energy, legal affairs, and business administration.
HE Al Mansoori stated at the time of the launch: “This inauguration coincides with a critical and vital stage in the future of the national cooperative work. As this period is witnessing the issuing of the Supreme Policy for Technology Science and Innovation and the launch of UAE Innovation Week. This opening comes in line with the numerous initiatives that TRA is launching to support achieving 2020 goals, United in Knowledge and to empower the existing renaissance in our country that is based on knowledge and innovation."
Engineer Mohamed Al Zarooni, UAE TRA Polices and Programs Director stated: “The library was designed with ease of use in mind, which is why, users can access it through various channels (including) the smart application and the website. Aiming to save readers’ time, we designed the library with various search options including searching for a specific topic and searching by book (title). This library will increase our employees’ awareness of a vast array of scientific and cultural topics.”
