Building an Innovation Community @ FDOT
Ananth Prasad, PE, Senior Vice President, HNTB
Dr. Gregory Ferris, Ferris Consulting Group
WASHTO 2015
Transportation Solutions: Moving at the speed of business
The Challenge: STEPPING UP!
• Be Bold
• Be Innovative
• Be inspirational
• CPR
Creating Conditions In Which Employees Choose
To Offer More Of Their Capability And Potential
TO
What the
organization
does to employees.
FOR
Something the
organization
has done for you.
WITH
Something done
with employees.
Stepping Up: Growth and Sustainability
Sustain
• Front Line Step Up Training
• Resource Development
• Step Up Becomes
The FDOT Work Culture
Expand
• Follow Up Training
• Mid-Level District Training
• Resource Development
Phase 2
Nurture
• Resource Development
• Webinars/Town Halls
• One-on-Ones
Launch
• Town Hall Meetings
• Focused Communication
• Annual Step Up meetings
Prepare
Decide
2011
Phase 3
• Up Front Planning
• Establish Step Up
Structure
• Executive Onboarding
Phase 1
YES To
Deployment of
Step Up
Time
2014
Innovators! Team
Role and Responsibilities
• 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
6
Setting Up & Activating Your
Innovation Incubator
Pre-Incubation
• 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
• 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
Innovation Submission
• Innovation report
submitted to
Innovators! Team
• Report feedback (go or
no go)
• Report forwarded to
appropriate decision
makers
• Recognition
7
FDOT Training for i5 Innovation in a Box Process
8
Innovation Incubators –
A Two Prong Approach
Strategic Innovation
Request from
Executive Level
Managing
the
Energy
Idea
Campaign:
District & Central
Office Seeking
Districts
& Central
Innovation
Office:
Local Focus
AsIdea
Needed
Campaigns
Managing
Managing
the Energy
the
Energy
Innovation
Incubator
Innovation
Incubators
FDOT
Innovators!
FDOT
Team
Innovators!
Steering Team
Managing
the Energy
9
9
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