strategies that scale
Accelerating people & ideas
Our Mission is to inspire and spur excitement across employees and leadership to encourage a culture shift towards continuous engagement and innovation as a core business principle.
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Participants
Innovation ideas
Continents
“Don’t Panic!”
– Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Career Achievement
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Developed and championed a culture of innovation by launching a global innovation program engaging over 3,000 + participants worldwide.
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Co-founded a New Venture Accelerator, transforming bold ideas into market-ready solutions and training the next generation of innovators.
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Innovation Ambassador to the company speaking at yearly global events as well as plan and host innovation challenges throughout the year.
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A Global View
Offices across the globe participating in our innovation program.
Our Mission
How might we establish a Collaborative Innovation Program spanning the entirety of the Wealth & Investment Technology organization ( ~ 4,000 + employees)
How might we develop educational programming to empower future leaders of our business groups through exposure to entrepreneurial education, mentorship, and opportunities to develop those skills in a hands-on structured training programs.
How might we structure and deploy a distributed Innovation as Service model wherein a core team ensures the greater organization is enabled to run collaborative innovation challenges.
How might we inspire and spur excitement across employees and leadership to encourage a culture shift towards continuous engagement and innovation as a core business principle.
Our Approach
Innovation is deeply ingrained in our DNA and will be evident in everything we do in the next 5 years. SS&C is a distributed company of many independent business units. Each unit has its own culture, traditions and systems in place.
Programs
New Venture Accelerator
Accelerate ResultsNew Venture Accelerator
Fueling bold ideas and talentDesigned to grow intrapreneurs and surface the next wave of business innovation.
Spark Ideas
GENERATE, CAPTURE & MANAGE INNOVATIVE IDEASSpark Ideas
Launched an ideation Platform.Empowered teams across the org to think big, move fast, and drive real business results.
“Working with Everett Hagan is like having an idea generator, motivational support and user-centered experience – all wrapped up into the most enthusiastic person you have ever met.
Whether it is launching the Innovation Society, creating a Design System approach, helping other teams ideate and problem solve – Everett is the multi-faceted energy – the flux capacitor, if you will – that can really bring you forwards (and back) to the future. “
– Anya Livshyts (Product Manager)
Listen & Adapt
We leveraged surveys, leadership interviews, and brainstorming sessions to understand the needs and pain points of our organization.
Planning
Planning is a big part of any successful program. We spread out training, challenges, and the accelerator across the year. This allows me to offer leadership opportunities to my team and juggle multiple projects.
Business Outcomes
The Innovation Program has grown from a grassroots volunteer project to a funded program. We are currently looking into scaling the program and create centers of innovation around industry topics (e.g. Wealth, Alternatives, Asset Management and Insurance) across the globe.
Several of our accelerator alumni have taken their ideas to market and now are in leadership positions.