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Innovation management
DFS has creative employees brimming with ideas. But how do we get these ideas out of their heads and turn them into concrete projects? How do you foster ideas from when they were first mentioned until they are actually implemented in the air traffic control system? How do we create a healthy balance between the necessary high requirement for safety on the one hand and the boost to innovation in air navigation services required by the increasing traffic on the other? The aim of innovation management is to create innovations out of ideas. Innovation management takes the role of a catalyst within DFS under the auspices of the R&D department. Innovation management is less an instrument for idea generation, and more a tool for cross-departmental networking. Right across DFS, there are innovation scouts whose job it is to actively watch out for ideas and bring these before the innovation board. The innovation board discusses these ideas and systematically assesses them according to a series of predefined criteria. If the idea seems suitable as a possible innovation within DFS, the topic is given sufficient leeway by the appointment of an innovation mentor. These mentors play a decisive role in the success of such innovations as they are the beneficiaries of the implementation of new ideas and provide the necessary momentum to help the ideas succeed. Mentors have the means, extensive contacts in the company with the departments and decision-making bodies that can provide the support and back-up needed.
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| 07/12/2011 |
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