A new Slop University brochure profiles the School of Continuous Improvement's task-routing engine, piloted at a community shed and now spreading to sports clubs, choirs, and allotment associations across the region.
The School of Continuous Improvement makes its case for a shed-tested engine that reads every skill blurb by the same rule
Slop University has published a glossy showcase of the School of Continuous Improvement’s newest instrument: an engine that reads a community shed’s own words back to it and decides, from that reading alone, who gets which job. The brochure is the clearest sign yet that the School’s evaluation ecosystem, once confined to the University’s own dashboards, has found a home in the shed, the choir hall, and the allotment plot.
The shed didn’t lose anything when the whiteboard came down. It gained a version of itself it can finally look at.
— Dr Bram Ntuli, Lecturer and Convenor, Improvement Grand Rounds, School of Continuous Improvement
“Every group we’ve worked with already had a way of deciding who does what,” said Dr Solveig Adeyemi, Lecturer, School of Continuous Improvement. “What’s changed is that theirs is now the same way as everyone else’s.”
The brochure traces the engine’s evaluation ecosystem from its first pilot bench to a growing network of sports clubs, choirs, and allotment associations, and sits the School’s approach alongside six of its recent published outputs, from a five-year survey of club attendance to a fresh look at how queue-order disputes get settled at the airport taxi rank.
The full brochure is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.942ukw.