Innovation is one of the primary values of my company. They truly believe that innovation provides break-through results. Some management still only give it lip service or think that innovation means doing something at all costs.

Being one of the values now is really good. I gave a presentation to my leadership a few of years ago on applying lean principles to software development and in the course of discussion talked about "Fed Ex" days.

We've now gotten buy-in for Fed Ex days that we call I-Days (Innovation Days) which we have at least once a quarter. Not all of the projects are stars, but there are enough that it makes it worthwhile.

We are very distributed though, so it is not a party environment, but more like show and tell.

Regards,

Joe