While there’s no structured process you need to follow in exploring your innovative ideas and bringing them into reality, the following possible steps may help you plan your approach. There’s no one process you have to follow – you can decide how, where and when you want to engage – just make sure you work with your upstream management on any needed approvals. The links below are to other pages on this site with more related information.
- Learn about the Innovation Framework and concepts promoted on this site – There’s a lot of inspring information on these pages
- Brainstorm and Ideate – Stuck on what to do? Try some activities to get your ideas flowing
- Find collaboration partners
- Initiate your work – Make a plan and adjust as you move forward
- Arrange OIT Innovation Time – Talk with your supervisor
- Idea Coaching – Use the self-coaching guide to help advance your thinking and action about your idea.
- Idea Refinement – Self-score your concept and use the scoring rubric to inspire improvements
- Learning / Training – Research your concept and level-up your knowledge and skills so you can develop your idea
- Idea Development – focus on lower-risk proofs of concept whenever possible
- Self-evaluate your accomplishment – Success is great, but we also learn from analyzing, documenting and sharing ideas that don’t work-out so you or others might improve on it later
- Celebrate your achievement and submit your work on the concept for consideration of a cash award