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ITD employee-driven Rapid Innovation event finds solutions          

The Oct. 25 Rapid Innovation event showcased 13 teams and the solutions arrived at during a continuous-improvement journey. Winning teams took it beyond problem identification, planning next steps and providing timelines.

The teams were given process-improvement tools and provided common ITD problems to work on, with the hope that many participants would take the tools back to their workplaces and participate in rapid-improvement events at the district level.

Pictured right: Director Ness and "Rocky" McArthur celebrate an exhilirating ITD victory.

The 13 teams – up from 10 last year – were composed of employees from various levels, business units and regions. Each team had 9-12 participants, a senior leadership team champion, and one of two facilitators.

Here are a few of the comments from attendees when asked for one word to describe their 2017 Leadership Summit experience:

Amazing...
Inspiring...
Accomplishment...
Teamwork...
Challenging...
Invigorating...

Every single team had significant successes that were highlighted in 15-minute report-out capsules.
 
Awards were given in two areas:

Problem Solving
1st Place        New Employee Onboarding
2nd Place       TTO Onboarding
3rd Place        Naming Convention Standards

Constructive Culture
1st Place        Role-based Applications, Equipment & Access
2nd Place       Safety Employee Recognition
3rd Place        Winter Maintenance Equipment Availability

Please check next week’s Transporter for the video of the presentation. We also will highlight each of the teams – the problem and the proposed solution – in the coming weeks. 

Descriptions and much of the event material can be found on the Leadership Summit page linked from the “Innovate ITD!” SharePoint page on the Intranet Portal.

Published 10-27-17