It has been another impressive year of employee-driven innovations at ITD. Innovations saved more than $3.5 million and 25,000 hours in fiscal 2018. Employees also found more than 120 customer-service improvements in the last 12 months.Employee involvement is the backbone of Innovate ITD, and your input is needed as we find the Best of the Best from FY18.
The Innovate ITD program just keeps gaining momentum. 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 services to citizens.
Voting for Best of the Best…
- Your innovation stewards and the Innovative Business Practices team selected finalists for each of seven Best of the Best categories from all the innovations employees submitted.
- YOU get to decide this year's Best of the Best. Using the link, you can vote for your favorites through Sept. 18.
- 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.
- 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.
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 finalists:
Safety
Backing Light Sensors For sheds
Injury Prevention Scissor Lift Cart
Bud Bar
Mobility
Avalanche Weather Station Improvements
Rapid Installation of surface-mounted tubular markers
State’s first double flashing yellow arrow signals
Economic Opportunity
Improvements to Lewiston POE weigh-in-motion system
Employee Development
Mentorship Program
Employee Onboarding – Leadership Summit
Equipment Identification Chart
Customer Service
Steel Sign Post Foundation form units
Weather Forecasts with winter road reports in 511
Interstate Weekend Crossovers
Time Savings
Plow blade changing cart
Traffic-control pickup sign rack
Cost Savings
Use of multi-year contracts for the purchase of snow plows
To see who won last year, check out our Best of the Best 2017 video.
Published 08-31-18