Building an Innovation 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 Bold Be Innovative Be Innovative Be inspirational Be inspirational CPR 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 Town Hall Meetings Focused Communication Annual Step Up meetings

FDOT INNOVATION: SHOCK 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 FDOT Innovators! Steering Team FDOT Innovators! Steering Team Managing the Energy Innovation Incubators Innovation Incubators 9 Innovation Incubators – A Two Prong Approach 9 Strategic Innovation Request from Executive Level Districts & Central Office: Local Focus Districts & Central Office: Local Focus Idea Campaign: As Needed Idea Campaign: As Needed Innovation Incubator FDOT Innovators! Team 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 (19.3 million) Changed Asphalt Mix Design Criteria FY (11 million) Advertising for the Statewide Sponsorship Program FY (6 million annually) Migrating to Electronic Delivery of Construction Forms and Documents Annual savings (2 million) ** Selected examples