building an innovation community @ fdot ananth prasad, pe, senior vice president, hntb dr. gregory...
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Building an Innovation Community @ FDOT
Ananth Prasad, PE, Senior Vice President, HNTBDr. Gregory Ferris, Ferris Consulting Group
WASHTO 2015Transportation Solutions: Moving at the speed of business
The Challenge: STEPPING UP!
• Be Bold
• Be Innovative
• Be inspirational
• CPR
WITH
What the organization
does to employees.
Something the organization
has done for you.
Something done with employees.
Creating Conditions In Which Employees Choose To Offer More Of Their Capability And Potential
FORTO
Sustain
Expand
Decide
Prepare
Launch
Nurture
Stepping Up: Growth and Sustainability
YES To Deployment of Step Up
Time
• Up Front Planning• Establish Step Up
Structure• Executive Onboarding
• Resource Development• Webinars/Town Halls • One-on-Ones
• Follow Up Training• Mid-Level District Training• Resource Development
• Front Line Step Up Training• Resource Development• Step Up Becomes The FDOT Work Culture
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
2011 2014
• Town Hall Meetings• Focused Communication• Annual Step Up meetings
FDOT INNOVATION:
THE SHOCK of the Possible!
• Passionately act as an advocate for organizational innovation
• Communicates strategic innovation needs from leadership
• Reviews and validates innovative ideas submitted to leadership
• Provides support to incubators as needed • Communicating innovation break through(s)• Promoting , recognizing and celebrating incubator task
team successes
•
Innovators! Team Role and Responsibilities
6
Setting Up & Activating Your Innovation Incubator
• Identify a location for focus & visibility
• Budget/resources• Room set-up• Innovation admin.• Communication plan• Initial i5 Innovation in a
Box process training • Clearly defined purpose
of innovation incubator• Staffing
Incubating Innovation Submission
• Innovation report submitted to Innovators! Team
• Report feedback (go or no go)
• Report forwarded to appropriate decision makers
• Recognition
• Clear & concise innovation need defined (as is – to be)
• Team charter created • Role and responsibilities• Innovation in a Box
process utilized• Activation of i5 process
leading to results
7
Pre-Incubation
FDOT Training for i5 Innovation in a Box Process
8
District & Central Office Seeking
Innovation
Idea Campaigns
FDOTInnovators!
Steering Team
Managing the Energy
Managing the Energy
InnovationIncubators
9
Innovation Incubators – A Two Prong Approach
9
Strategic Innovation Request from
Executive Level
Districts & Central Office:
Local Focus
Idea Campaign:
As Needed
Innovation Incubator
FDOT Innovators!
Team
Managing the
Energy
Managing the
Energy
Innovation Progress: Cost Savings/Efficiencies/Revenue Generation**
• One coat vs. three coat and use of weathering steel - Annual savings (5 million)
• Revised bridge coating policy Annual savings (1 million)
• Design/CEI Cost Savings initiative Savings (3.0 million)
• Pavement Only Projects FY 2012-15 (19.3 million)
• Changed Asphalt Mix Design Criteria FY 2012-13 (11 million)
• Advertising for the Statewide Sponsorship Program FY 2011-15 (6 million annually)
• Migrating to Electronic Delivery of Construction Forms and Documents Annual savings (2 million)
** Selected examples