AI & Innovation
From idea to experiment to use case
Innovation Lab
Ideas tested quickly, and scaled when they prove out.
The Innovation Lab is GTech’s managed experimentation office. It gathers ideas from staff, partners and data, ranks them by value and feasibility, runs short experiments with clear success measures, and hands the winners to delivery as use cases ready to scale.
Highlights
- One pipeline of ideas, ranked by value and feasibility
- Short experiments with success measures agreed upfront
- Proven ideas handed over as use cases ready to scale
Plenty of ideas; few reach production.
Organizations run hackathons, idea campaigns and proofs of concept, and many promising ideas follow. Most stop there: no one decides which to test, experiments run without measures of success, and the ones that work have no route into delivery.
Innovation becomes an event rather than a way of working, and leadership cannot tell what it returned. A lab works when experimentation is managed: a pipeline, clear measures and a handover that turns proof into practice.
Ideas, experiments and scale in one lab.
The Innovation Lab manages experimentation from the first idea to the first live use case.
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Idea pipeline
Ideas from staff, partners, customers and data in one pipeline, each with a sponsor and a problem it solves.
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Ranking
Opportunities scored for value, feasibility and fit with the strategy, so effort goes to the best few.
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Experiments
Short, time-boxed tests with the hypothesis, the success measure and the decision date agreed in advance.
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Scale-up
Proven ideas handed to delivery as use cases with a case for investment and an owner.
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Partners and ecosystem
Startups, vendors and universities brought in where they can test faster than building alone.
Stood up with your team, then run by it.
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Frame
Agree the challenges the lab will work on, its sponsors and how ideas will be judged.
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Fill the pipeline
Gather and rank ideas, and choose the first experiments.
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Experiment
Run the first wave of experiments and decide on each against its success measure.
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Transfer
GTech runs the lab alongside your team until your people run it on their own.
Innovation measured like any other investment.
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Effort on the best ideas
Ranking and quick decisions stop resources spreading across too many pilots.
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Fail small, learn fast
Time-boxed experiments end weak ideas early and cheaply.
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A route to production
Winners leave the lab with an owner, a case and a place in the delivery plan.
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Connected to the command center
The idea pipeline, experiments and ranked opportunities flow into ECC 360 and HECC 360, and questions leaders ask that the data cannot yet answer become candidate ideas.
Built for the way you innovate.
The lab fits the challenges and the partners of its sector.
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Government and public sector
For ministries and authorities innovating in public services, with beneficiaries and partners in the loop.
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Enterprise and groups
For groups and companies looking for new products, services and ways of working across business units.
Give ideas a route to production.
A working session frames your first innovation challenges and shows how the Innovation Lab would run for you.