1. PSP INNOVATION PROGRAM

2. Overview of Presentation
What is innovation
PSP Innovation System
Innovation Award Steps and Calendar
Criteria to Assess Innovation
Application Form
PSP Innovation Committee and Performance measurement metrics

3. What is Innovation?
An innovation is a new idea, approach or intervention, a new service, a new product or a new policy which responds more adequately and in a more sustainable way than existing solutions to a well defined need.
It is a solution that has found takers within an organisation, a community or a group and has produced a measurable benefit for the collective organization and not only for certain individuals.
The scope of an innovation is transformational and systemic. It constitutes, in its inherent creativity, a departure from the status quo.
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4. PSP Innovation System SPIN Database PSP Employees PSP Sr. Managers
Assure circulation of ideas
PSP Culture of Innovation
Foster
Enable
Enhance
Promote
PSP Employees
Communicate needs and ideas that could lead to innovation
PSP Sr. Managers
Support the innovation culture and bring people together
PSP Innovation Award and Committee
Ignite and reward innovation within the organization
Measure innovation with metrics
Overview of how we got to where we are today
1. Last PM meeting, the innovation committee developed a raw concept of a framework that we subsequently presented to you all last year.
2. Pat, Anne, the committee and myself further refined the framework after the PM meeting
3. During our CHAMPIONS meetings organized by our PM Manager, we presented the refined Innovation to the PM Manager and Champions
4. After the presentation, the PM Manager suggested that the outcome of last years Innovation effort should be continued and to do a trial of the concept here at Cornwall for this year
5. In October, we asked that Sr PSP Manager send their innovative ideas to the SPIN Committee.
6. All ideas were reviewed by the Spin committee and we reached out to those selected Managers to prepare a presentation that would explain their innovative idea and why theirs is the best idea.
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What Is the framework and how does it work?
1. We established a Committee that would review all submissions of innovative ideas. The committee would be composed of Sr Managers according to elements as well as Sr Managers from HQ along with a military personnel.
2. The Sr Manager PSP would be the first screen of innovative ideas submitted from their base. All employees would be encouraged to submit their ideas to the Sr Manager PSP.
3. Innovative ideas would be submitted within the category identified from the application form.
All ideas that are screened by the committee would be stored within a database that would be accessible by all for future use should Sr Managers wish to browse through the innovative ideas.

5. PSP Areas for Innovation

6. Innovation Award Steps & Calendar
June to September
PSP teams apply for their innovation(s)
October
PSP Innovation
Committee marks and selects 4 finalists
November
Dragon’s Den
The 4 finalists present their innovation in front of all Sr. PSP Managers
September
Annual SPIN Survey
All PSP employees vote for the top 10 innovations

7. Innovation Award Steps & Calendar
June to September
PSP teams apply for their innovation(s)
October
PSP Innovation
Committee marks and selects the 4 finalists
November
Dragon’s Den
The 4 finalists present their innovation in front of all Sr. PSP Managers
September
Annual SPIN Survey
All PSP employees vote for the top 10 innovations

8. Innovation Application Form

9. Innovation Award Steps & Calendar
June to September
PSP teams apply for their innovation(s)
October
PSP Innovation
Committee marks and selects the 4 finalists
November
Dragon’s Den
The 4 finalists present their innovation in front of all Sr. PSP Managers
September
Annual SPIN Survey
All PSP employees vote for the top 10 innovations

10. Criteria to Assess Innovation
Before the innovation
Unsatisfactory existing solutions
Well-defined need
Development and implementation
Research and planning process
Interactions and collaborations
Outcomes
Novelty
Collective and measurable benefit
Systemic transformation

11. Innovation Award Steps & Calendar
June to September
PSP teams apply for their innovation(s)
October
PSP Innovation
Committee marks and selects the 4 finalists
November
Dragon’s Den
The 4 finalists present their innovation in front of all Sr. PSP Managers
September
Annual SPIN Survey
All PSP employees vote for the top 10 innovations

12. Innovation Award Steps & Calendar
VOTE
Sr. PSP Managers vote for the winning innovation
PSP Innovation Award
5 000$
Innovation award is given during this event
Prize claim
Winner(s) will have to submit a plan on how they wish to use their prize

13. PSP Innovation Committee
Chair
HQ Sr Mgr
CAF Sr Rep
PSP Sr Mgr/Dep
Navy (2)
Army (2)
SP Sr Mgr/Dep
RCAF (2)
Co-Chair
HQ (Sr) Mgr
PSP (Sr/Dep) Mgrs’s Responsibilities:
Innovation award and candidate succession’s selection process
Dragon’s Den
2 to 3 teleconferences PY
Application process: from June to September
Rotation of 3 members PY
For more info: PSPInnovation.CFMWS.com

14. Performance Measurement Metrics
**Something to explain PM and relevance to measure innovation for PSP. Perhaps Atkinson’s quote?
PSP Culture of Innovation
Foster
Enable
Enhance
Promote
# Ideas submitted to Senior managers PSP
# Ideas submitted to SPIN database
# Views of the videos
# Hits on website
# Views of the database
# Ideas used
# and % Votes on survey
The framework includes some PM metrics that would allow us to track the “program” or innovation
Those are:
number of innovation projects submitted a year
The number of votes submitted by our employees
The number of innovation projects implemented and their impact (yr 3 and beyond) on the organization.
# OF IDEAS SUBMITTED TO MGRS
# OF IDEAS SUBMITTED TO SPIN DATABASE
# VIEWS OF THE VIDEOS
# OF HITS ON WEBSITE
# OF VIEWS OF THE DATABASE
# OF IDEAS USED
# AND % OF VOTES ON SURVEY