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2. Don’t Launch a Stinker: Learn How to Build an Innovation Program that Engages Everyone 
Park District of Oak Park
Greg Stopka and Melissa Martinez

3. Kahoot Ice Breaker
What is the most important part of an innovation program?

4. Overview: What is Launch Pad?
Platform to share and collaborate around ideas
Dedicated staff to manage
Launch in 2015 in response to community survey

5. Overview: Why our innovation program was failing?
Lack of engagement
Lack of follow-through
Bias
Lack of ROI
Meteor crashing and burning

6. Overview: Launch Pad 2.0 New process New engagement strategies
Tracking ROI/Data
New Moon

7. New Process: Changes Department engagement Innovation Team changes
-Diversity of Team
-Launch Pad Survey
-Criteria to limit bias
-Defining types of innovation
Executive Director approval

8. New Process: Types of Innovations
Process-improvement
Pilots/testable ideas
BIG Ticket
Problem-solving

9. New Process: Changes to Launch Pad
Master Planning and BIG Ticket categories
Tags for departments

10. Engagement: Awards Committee narrows down submissions
Top Innovators of the Year
Community Impact & Internal Impact
Ideas that Failed
Top Commenter/Top Poster
Moon Men:
Idea submitted and planned/implemented
Recognized at All-Staff meetings
Yields competition, increased participation
Moon Pies:
Most post and/or comments during time period
Community Impact & Internal Impact
Committee narrows down submissions
Employees encouraged to vote for final winners
Out of the World Moon Man Awards

11. Engagement: Big Ticket Contest
Electric tools video

12. Engagement: Other ideas
Challenge of the month
White board innovation

13. ROI/Data: Results of 2.0 New ideas launched: 2015 – 14 2016 – 14
2017 – 21
2018 – 38
87 new ideas launched by staff at all levels in the organization

14. ROI/Data: Other Ideas Idea completion forms Annual survey
Dashboard transparency

15. Next Steps: Staying in Orbit
Developing a problem-solving process
Sharing results with the community
Engaging the community in their ideas

16. Activity: Building Your Innovation Program
Take 5 minutes to individually complete your cheat sheet
Share with your group
Identify the best answers to create a Frankenstein innovation program

17. Share: Best Frankenstein Programs
Best process ideas
Best engagement ideas
Best ROI/data ideas

18. Questions???

19. Contact Information:
Greg Stopka:
Melissa Martinez: