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Innovation Initiatives at VA

Innovation Initiatives at VA. Presented by: Peter L. Levin Senior Advisor to the Secretary & Chief Technology Officer These materials prepared by: Lauren Bailey Rachel Lunsford Heather Burrs Peter Levin. What’s the Point?. We are serious about getting fresh ideas

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Innovation Initiatives at VA

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  1. Innovation Initiatives at VA Presented by: Peter L. Levin Senior Advisor to the Secretary & Chief Technology Officer These materials prepared by: Lauren Bailey Rachel Lunsford Heather Burrs Peter Levin

  2. What’s the Point? • We are serious about getting fresh ideas • Participants have to believe that • We are serious about providing channels • Participants have to see that • We are changing a culture and mindset • Participants have to feel that • We are serious about fixing these problems • We are so going to do this

  3. VBA Innovation Initiative • 7,000 participants • 3,000 ideas • 10 ideas chosen • Projects currently in implementation

  4. VHA Innovation Initiative • 45,000 participants • 6,500 ideas • 50,000 votes cast • 26 ideas chosen • Winners were notified on May 7. • Implementation coming soon.

  5. VA Innovation Initiative • Institutionalize innovation • Create public-private partnership • Iterative and ongoing process • Focus on the Secretary’s call for transformation

  6. Challenges and Opportunities • The large resistance to getting started • and the enthusiasm once we did • The uncertainty about the color of money • working WITH boundaries rather than with IN them • Employees want to hear from us • they have a ton of materials we can use • Being really specific, being really vague • comfort in the ambiguity

  7. Questions you should think about? • Who gets to submit ideas? • Who gets to comment? • Who gets to vote? • Who gets to choose? • How will the choices be made? • Will it withstand the “Washington Post Test”

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