Help turn job hassles into budget opportunities

A new campaign called IDEA$ at Work asks employees to share insights from wherever they work at UC Davis Health — whether that’s in a classroom, lab, office, hospital, field or water treatment plant. The ideas will be used to help identify institutional savings and new streams of revenue, to help fix ongoing budget challenges.

Ideas could include ways to:

• Reduce hassles for employees
• Reduce wasted time
• Find new ways to make money
• Provide innovative new streams of revenue
• Identify cost savings
• Improve efficiency
• Cut red tape

“It’s my hope that all of our faculty, staff and students will submit their ideas on how we can do things better or differently at UC Davis to address reduced funding from the state,” Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan said.

“I believe that people ‘in the trenches’ have the greatest insights into opportunities for cost savings and efficiencies, so please let us hear from you. We want to make use of your ideas to help make UC Davis a better place, with a more sustainable financial future.”

All ideas are welcome, big or small, old or new. Providing your contact information is optional for follow-up questions about your ideas.

Send in your IDEA$ here.

Prizes, donations

Helping improve UC Davis Health is a reward in itself, but there’s a prize drawing, too. After you submit your idea or ideas (with or without your contact information for follow-ups), then you will have a chance to enter a prize drawing and provide your email address, which will be kept separately from idea submissions in case you want to maintain anonymity.

Everyone entered in the drawing will receive a code for free tickets to Aggie basketball or gymnastics, plus a coupon for UC Davis Stores. Prizes include tickets to Mondavi Center shows, a $100 UC Davis Stores gift card, earbuds and UC Davis swag.

Once 1,000 ideas are submitted, donations of $2,000 each will be made to the ASCUD Pantry, the UC Davis Staff Emergency Fund and the UC Davis Health Staff Emergency Fund.

Click here to continue reading the original at https://financeandbusiness.ucdavis.edu/bia/budget/budget-framework/ideas-at-work.