Adaptive model allows Gilbane to continually innovate

Gilbane Building Co. is breaking ground.

The Providence-based organization with 46 offices worldwide counts several initiatives as among its most innovative and transformative. There’s the Innovation Council, a group of company leaders from across the organization’s departments that support and make decisions about cultural change and innovation on a companywide level; the Innovation Accelerator, an idea generator incubator consisting of five stages that includes partaking in project experiments; and the Idea Inventory, a digital portfolio of ideas that provides employees with greater transparency about the ideas that are being pursued, which stages the ideas are in and why certain ideas are no longer working. Read more here.