 The innovation pipeline came about because of communication, really is the bottom line. We often have faculty come to us and say, if you use this technology or as I'm doing research and finding really cool emerging technologies, the way to do it is for us to put it through this innovation pipeline so we can research it and test it and follow a process to keep faculty informed, faculty engaged and also have them provide feedback on what's working and what's not in the classroom. It's a four step process that we have. The first stage is the concept stage. So that's when faculty come to us with an idea and it could be anything. It could be a group peer technology, it could be a lecture capture technology, it could be an app on their phone that they think is really cool. So stage two is really testing and I call it the play stage. So we may pull some faculty in, some stakeholders in, whoever they may be, get our hands on it, work with a vendor if it's something that we have to go through a vendor, do a sandbox and really play and learn and is it easy to use? Is it something that we have the budget for if it includes a budget? Is the vendor great to work with? Those are all key pieces and can we have support on this? So stage three is the pilot stage. So after we've tested, we've had faculty come in and put together a team that includes support, my group, members of my group, an instructional designer, myself, a project leader, which is usually me or someone from my group, and then our support center, which is also key so we need someone to help support us through this pilot and we come up with a pilot plan, I'm in charge of the documentation, so we do the documentation for the pilot and it's basically a hand-holding stage. So we try this new technology, whatever it is, whether it's just a one classroom piece or if it's something that a faculty member wants to use throughout the semester and we go through the pilot and then at the end of the pilot we determine if it's something that worked and it could, it's a list of everything, user friendliness, how was the support, how was the technology, were students to be able to use, did it help enhance the classroom, we have a checklist. Part of that stage three process is a group we call the gate three or G3, that is the the CIO, my director, and faculty members that represent departments across campus that we go through and report on the pilot and they give us the go-ahead, so the green light to say yes roll this out or the kind of stop, we're not ready yet or the budget isn't there or whatever the reason may be to kind of hold off and put it on the back burner. So the beauty in the innovation pipeline is not finding a technology and it's yes all the way through. There are many times that we've hit a technology stop, but you know what, we're not ready yet or we don't have the support for it, we don't have the budget for it, it's not easy to use. So stage four is the rollout and that that's a big piece because we need to train faculty and staff if there's something that they want to use and students, so we have a lot of documentation, we put a lot of information up on our student and faculty hub, we do a lot of training, we have to train the support and how to handle support calls and if it's something that we work with the vendor, we have to set up all of the support on that end as well and then the budget and so that's the rollout is a big piece. The rollout piece is also interesting for me because you may roll out a technology and because technology is really a tool, not every faculty member has to use it just because we have it and then we included in our Babson toolbox. So we have this toolbox of all the technologies that faculty have access to and it is it is part of that. With technology changing so fast, we're putting things through the innovation pipeline and we want faculty to see what's going on. It's also a benchmark and it's also to let faculty know that we're just not kind of sitting around waiting for something to come to us so it's really a way for faculty to go and see what we're doing as a department and where Babson as a whole is going with innovation and technology.