Success Story Business Education Council of Niagara

“Innovation must become part of the culture of the organization. For example a BEC staff member came up with our slogan “Innovation is Our Motivation”.  We recently formalized our pursuit of innovation by forming an R&D Committee consisting of a volunteer staff member from all program areas and one manager. The committee encourages submission of new program ideas from staff and has developed criteria that they apply to see if the concept is worth pursuing. The submission has to be researched by the staff member or members before submission. If the committee considers the idea feasible they then help the staff member to put together a short proposal to go to the Executive Director. If it is still appears to be feasible the staff member, the program manager and resource staff (usually finance) are asked to put together a full business plan.”