GLOBAL INNOVATION PROGRAM

Accelerating people & ideas

Our Mission is to inspire and spur excitment 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

Career Achievement

Developed and championed a culture of innovation by launching an internal innovation program engaging over 3,000 employees worldwide.

Co-founded ALPHALAB, a structured innovation accelerator, transforming bold ideas into market-ready solutions and training the next generation of innovators.

Innovation Ambassador to the company speaking at yearly global kickoff events as well as plan and host innovation challenges throughout the year.

 

Business Challenge

Innovation is deeply ingrained in our DNA and shows up 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.

( 5 pillars defined by our leadership )

Listen & Adapt

After forming a small group of volunteer innovators we leveraged Design Thinking practices to approach the problem space.  We sent out surveys, interviewed leadership, and ran bainstorming sessiong with the goal of understanding the needs of our organization.

Define Our Mission

Establish a Collaborative Innovation Program spanning the entirety of the Wealth & Investment Technology organization ( ~ 4,000 + employees)

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.

Structure and deploy a distributed Innovation as Service model wherein a core team ensures the greater organization is enabled to run collaborative innovation challenges.

Inspire and spure excitment across employees and leadership to encourage a culture shift towards continuous engagement and innovation as a core business principle.

Areas of Focus

Spark Ideas

Generate, Capture and Manage ideas

  • Innovation platform and process
  • Innovation Challenges
  • Innovation Community management

New Ventures

Accelerate Results

Accelerating innovation activities

      • Tech Accelerator
      • New Venture Accelerator Program
      • Rewards & Recognition

Build Capabilities

Develop and measure  innovation education programming.

      • Innovation Measurement framework
      • Employee Innovation training

Employee Engagement

Years

Participants

Innovation ideas

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