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