The Innovate18 programme was a partnership between Crossrail and the Tier 1 contractors, co-ordinated and managed by a small team within Crossrail Ltd.
The establishment and implementation of Innovate18 is set out in a micro-report which contains many of the documents, processes and resources that were used. A report done in conjunction with Imperial College Business School evaluated the benefits of the innovation programme.
We have also shared the source code for the Innovation Management system.
There is also an article setting out our experiences, which was first published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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Topic area: Innovation Programme The £14·8 billion Crossrail project to deliver the Elizabeth line east–west railway across London has pioneered the development of a systematic programme approach to innovation. Previous papers have focused on the early stages of setting up Crossrail’s innovation programme – known as Innovate18 – and implem...
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27/04/2017 |
Journal Publication |
Topic area: Innovation Programme The Crossrail innovation programme, at the time of its inception in 2012, focussed on generating innovation through sharing rather than providing a return on investment. To enable this a small pot of funding was created to trial ideas and to develop an innovators network that raised the bar for the industry. Once the...
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22/03/2016 |
Research Paper |
Topic area: Innovation Programme The Innovation Remit template is used to define the scope of innovation projects to be invested in, including go/no go criteria, timescales, resources, budgets and measures of success. Included here are a blank version and a completed example.
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26/02/2016 |
Good Practice Document |
Topic area: Innovation Programme The Innovation Management System database was used to create a repository of all ideas submitted during the Innovate18 programme including actions taken with respect to each idea.
The source code for an empty copy of the database is included in the document links section below, alongside the installation guide....
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26/02/2016 |
Dataset |
Topic area: Innovation Programme This micro-report explains why the Crossrail Innovation Programme, Innovate18, was established, and how it was implemented. It includes the plan, procedure and document used to manage the process. It will be of interest to sponsors, clients and suppliers working on projects of any size.
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26/02/2016 |
Micro-report |
Topic area: Innovation Programme The Innovation Management Procedure describes the processes and procedures used in managing investment in and delivery of innovations.
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26/02/2016 |
Good Practice Document |
Topic area: Innovation Programme Example of a report from the Innovation Programme which fed into the Crossrail period report, describing activities and challenges.
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26/02/2016 |
Good Practice Document |
Topic area: Innovation Programme The Innovation Management Plan describes how the Crossrail Innovation programme will be resourced and governed.
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26/02/2016 |
Good Practice Document |
Topic area: Innovation Programme This paper describes how the £14·8 billion Crossrail project in London, UK developed and implemented an innovation strategy to support the delivery of the project. The strategy was designed to encourage the supply chain to develop and apply genuinely beneficial new products, processes and services − then to ensure ...
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20/10/2015 |
Journal Publication |
Topic area: Innovation Programme The Crossrail innovation programme, Innovate18, provides an opportunity to capture and explore pioneering ideas from all of those involved in the project. The techniques, products and methods used on Crossrail provide a benchmark for other construction projects.
As an award-winning innovation programme, Crossr...
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13/07/2015 |
Good Practice Document |
Topic area: Innovation Programme Isolated pockets of innovation can be found in projects—such as the novel solution used to re- design the Velodrome roof during the London 2012 Olympics—but there have been few, if any, systematic efforts to manage innovation in a megaproject. This paper presents the initial findings of an ongoing three-year (2012?...
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18/11/2014 |
Journal Publication |
Topic area: Innovation Programme Crossrail has developed an innovation strategy to improve the delivery of the project and create a legacy to improve the performance of the UK construction industry.
Much has been done over the past two decades to promote innovation in construction. Raising the performance bar to the next level requires strat...
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20/02/2013 |
Good Practice Document |
The Innovate18 programme was a partnership between Crossrail and the Tier 1 contractors, co-ordinated and managed by a small team within Crossrail Ltd.
