Employee Voting Now Open

By: Char McArthur, Chief Administrative Officer

To see my video about voting for the 2017 Best of the Best, click here or continue reading.

It’s that time again! Time to vote for the BEST of the BEST employee-driven innovations at ITD for 2017.

 

 


It has been another exciting year of innovation and sharing our successes at ITD. Innovations saved close to $3.4 million and 116,000 hours in fiscal 2017. ITD was ALSO one of 3 finalists for Idaho INNOVATIVE Company of the Year last year – that was because of what YOU are doing! 

The Innovate ITD program just keeps gaining momentum — we witnessed the 1,000th idea submitted into the innovation funnel. Employee participation grew from just 5% in the first year to more than 40% last year. More than 600 ITD employees have engaged in Innovate ITD in some manner. We want to continue to grow that number.

We appreciate all the folks that return time and again to the site to share their ideas and successes. We are changing the way we work at ITD by sharing our successes openly for others to use so we can expand the impact of those successes and recognizing the efforts to achieve improvements.

Everyone who participated in "Innovate ITD!" this year will receive an "Innovate ITD!" 2017 puzzle pen (pictured to left) selected by your stewards to recognize your contribution to Innovate ITD! Your Innovation Steward will be delivering your pen to thank you personally for your engagement.

Innovate ITD is a field of opportunity for every employee to engage in making their work place a little bit safer, better and improving on how we deliver our services to citizens.
 
Case in point…
I want to share a story with you about Bruce Martin, a Transportation Technician in Blackfoot. I met Bruce when we were doing a 5S [hopefully you know what a 5S event is by now and if not, check out the 5S site located here] event in the Blackfoot shed. Bruce shared with me an idea he had for improving the oil-delivery system that would make his job easier and safer. I encouraged Bruce to work with his foreman and management team to implement the idea and his Innovation Steward in District 5, Greydon Wright to submit his idea to Innovate ITD! Bruce did submit his idea and they did end up implementing that idea. I want to thank Bruce for having the courage to stand up and be counted in Innovate ITD and sharing his ideas to make the work place a little bit safer than it was before.  Pictured below is the Blackfoot 5S team, with Martin in yellow shirt two people to the left of Char.

Voting for Best of the Best…

- Your innovation stewards and the Innovative Business Practices team selected two or three nominees for each of seven Best of the Best categories from all the innovations employees submitted in 2017.

- YOU get to decide this year's Best of the Best. Using the link above, you can vote for your favorites from Sept. 5-15.

- Please take the time to read a little bit about each innovation and vote for the seven you think are the Best of the Best for 2017

- You may cast one vote per category.

- Please take the time to read a little bit about each innovation and vote for the seven you think are the Best of the Best for 2017! 

Thank you again for all your hard work to make ITD the best transportation department in the country and standing up to be counted in Innovate ITD!   

Below are links to Transporter stories of each of the 20 finalists:  

Safety

Curve Delineation

Rural Intersection Conflict Warning System

Foreman Pickup Lighting Package

Mobility

Effectiveness of high early-strength concrete class

Motor grader shoulder depth control attachment

Magnetic sweeper

Economic Opportunity

Alternative to local jurisdiction to load posting

ACE Academy expansion/extension

Time Savings

QA/QC Program for DMV

Streamline ITD Process for Purchasing Non-Inventory Equipment:

Scanning Invoices/Receipts for Operations Foremen

Cost Savings

Collect bulk data for projects - 654

Varnish on air valves

Brine Hose Valve

Customer Service

Using 3D bridge renderings to drive public engagement

New ITD website project

Camera views on 511 website reports:

Employee Development

Execute Rapid Innovation Event

TTA Bootcamp

AEDs in all mtce. sheds

 

To see who won last year, check out our Best of the Best 2016 video.

 

 


Published 09-01-17