Binder #: 16
Major: Sociology
Passion: Education
Organization: East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging
Project Summary:At the East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging I was charged with developing, marketing, and hosting a senior focus radio show. In December of 2008, the West Bloomington Task Force published a document entitled “Senior Needs and Assets Assessment.” During their study, the WBTF found many seniors voiced their desire to have a community based radio show or television program to fill the void they felt existed in communication mediums for events and subjects relevant to their interests and the way they preferred to receive their news. In the Enterprise Internet Solutions department of State Farm, I worked on creating the architecture for an idea management work flow for the department. I ran meetings with ten members of the department to fully construct the first step in the work flow, idea management. We discussed current idea inputs and processes for evaluating ideas in each business area of EIS, the best structure for an idea evaluation team and their roles and responsibilities, and a flow chart for Idea Management. I created all of the supplementing documentation.