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Fashion Institute of Technology Innovation Center Operating Models

FIT/Infor Design and Technology Lab May 1, 2017 | 10am - 12pm

1 STRATEGIC PLAN FOR INNOVATION

Innovation Center Project Overview Project history and objectives The FIT Strategic Plan Our Legacy, Our Future: FIT Beyond 2020 was approved in 2013 and has three goals:

1. ENSURE ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE EXCELLENCE: Provide a rigorous learning experience built on the highest standards of academic and scholarly excellence, an environment that promotes creativity and experimentation, and diverse experiential learning with a variety of industry partners.

2. BE AN INNOVATION CENTER FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES WORLDWIDE: Partner with creative industries worldwide to help anticipate and address key challenges, build a stronger culture of innovation and entrepreneurship at FIT, and establish collaborations that translate creative ideas into action.

3. PROVIDE AN EMPOWERING STUDENT EXPERIENCE IN A COHESIVE COMMUNITY: Build an inclusive community in which students engage with, learn from and inspire each other, discovering how their differences and similarities promote creativity, intellectual and personal growth, and understanding. Create FIT traditions that generate a strong sense of community and school spirit, building affinity with the College as a whole among current students and engendering loyalty among alumni.

As one of the steps to implement Goal 2 of the plan, FIT engaged InnovationLabs to assist in the development of a strategic plan for an Innovation Center.

Design thinking methodology InnovationLabs is applying design thinking methodology in our approach to this project.

We started with needfinding to understand the FIT culture and context around innovation. During this phase we interviewed more than 75 members of the FIT community, observed classes, met with competitors, toured the campus, and learned a lot about FIT. Pop-up prototyping In an internal modeling and ideation session, InnovationLabs identified 10 important concepts that surfaced during needfinding. Ten pop-up prototype sessions, of which this is one, are being conducted to test and further develop those concepts. Following the pop-up prototypes there will be a Planning Council session and two roundtable sessions to get further input and feedback. Innovation Master Plan The project will result in an Innovation Master Plan for FIT, with recommendations on the innovation strategy, portfolio, process, culture, and infrastructure that FIT should pursue in order for FIT to achieve its innovation goal.

Innovation Center Operating Models Pop-Up Prototype | May 1, 2017


Pop-Up Prototype Sessions 1.  Style Shop

Reimagining the Style Shop as a leading edge experimenter 2.  Student Survey

Gaining more student input 3.  Innovation Center Design

What should the Center look like? 4.  Challenging the Problem

How can we promote more critical thinking? 5.  Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary

How can we promote more interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary thinking? 6.  Sustainability

How we can accelerate efforts to innovate in sustainability? 7.  Outside Connections and Matchmaking

How should we manage and promote innovation for outsiders? 8.   Innovation Center Operating Models

What are the best ways to set up and manage the FIT Innovation Center? We have identified nine possibilities so far…

9.  Innovation Curriculum What should FIT’s approach be to teaching innovation to students?

10.  Innovation in Graduate Programs How could the FIT Innovation Center support the teaching of innovation in graduate programs?



Innovation Center Operating Models Pop-Up Summary Participants Sherry Brabham Vice President, Finance and

Administration Professor NJ Bradeen Director, Gladys Marcus Library

Bonnie Duke Special Assistant to the Vice President, Enrollment Management and Student Success

Michael Ferraro Executive Director, FIT/Infor Design and Technology Lab

Professor Stephan Kanlian

Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management

Professor Johannes Knoops Interior Design

June Ng Director, Space Planning and Management

Professor Erika Rohrbach

Director, International Student Services, Enrollment Management and Student Success

Professor Joel Werring Fine Arts

Troy Williams Assistant Vice President, Communications and External Relations

Session Overview Langdon Morris opened the session with an overview of the Strategic Plan for Innovation project, and then provided a brief explanation of each of the nine potential operating models.

Next, as a group, they discussed the key questions in relation to each of the operating models, and documented the answers on the whiteboards. Once they completed a first pass together on each model, individuals went to the whiteboards and provided further detail.

Then, each participant was given three votes to place on whichever model or models they felt were the best fit for an FIT Innovation Center. The results: Library 7 votes; Classroom, Media Lab, and Showcase tied with 6 each; TechShop 5 votes. There was recognized value in some of the other models, but generally the group felt that their capabilities would exist as components to the top-selected operating models.

Based on the new understanding of which models might be most viable at FIT, the group determined what should be included in Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 of implementation.

Finally, participants were invited to write their final thoughts, recommendations, or big ideas that emerged from the session on a post-it and leave it on the door.



Potential Innovation Center Operating Models

1. Library Model The Innovation Center is a place where resources and information about innovation may be accessed by students, faculty, and community members.

2. Classroom Model: The Innovation Center is a place where faculty hold classes because of its specific resources and tools.

3. TechShop Model: The Innovation Center is a place where people come to work on their projects, whether they are classroom projects or independent.

4. Club Model: The Innovation Center is a community where people meet to share ideas, insights, problems, and inspirations with others who are like-minded. There could well be an “FIT Innovation Club” much like the student group that runs the Style Shop.

5. Hackathon/Competition Model: The Innovation Center organizes and sponsors hackathons and competitions pertaining to innovation. These can include the existing competitions as well as new competitions that FIT initiates. These may also include events such as “robot wars” and other types of individual and team-based competitions.

6. Media Lab Model: The Innovation Center is a recognized center for innovation across the many industries in which FIT has academic specialty expertise, and these specialists support and pursue advanced research agendas that are supported by industry partnerships and in which students are active participants.

7. Matchmaker Model: The Innovation Center serves as a center that matches incoming industry needs and requests with FIT faculty and students to promote, facilitate, and enable innovation projects.

8. Showcase Model: The Innovation Center is a branding showcase for FIT that displays and demonstrates FIT’s exceptional innovation capabilities across the curriculum areas, among its faculty, and among students, thereby enhancing the FIT brand locally, nationally, and globally.

9. The “Lucy” Model/Genius Bar: In the “Peanuts” comic strip, Lucy runs a counseling booth where she offers advice. The Innovation Center at FIT can provide similar service to students and faculty to help them with innovation projects. For faculty, it can be the rough equivalent of the “innovation first aid kit…”



Innovation Center Operating Models Questions to ask of each model: 1.  What is the purpose of the Innovation Center

under this model? 2.  What types of programs or projects would be

pursued? 3.  How would it be staffed? 4.  What resources would it have? 5.  What would the physical facility look like? 6.  How would it be branded? 7.  Who would be its users? 8.  What would they use it for? 9.  How would it enhance the overall FIT brand? 10.  How would it enhance student learning?



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Implementation Phasing



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