Welcome to the Innovation Lab!

Launched across Executive Vice President for Administration (EVPA) Units in 2025, the Innovation Lab explores the discovery of novel ideas, processes, products, and services that deliver transformative outcomes. With a focus on experimentation, this initiative aims to foster new, innovative ideas for MSU’s operational processes.

The Innovation Lab—facilitated by the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO)—applies proven project management methodologies, structures, and governance, ensuring innovation projects are executed with accountability.

In support of our Operational Excellence initiative, the Innovation Lab provides dedicated resources to advance promising innovation ideas from concept to implementation through:

Enhanced Innovation Pathways: Addition of dedicated capabilities to evaluate and develop ideas that require experimentation, prototyping, and novel approaches that extend beyond traditional process optimization.

Systematic Experimentation Support: Building on the Plan, Do, Check, Act, and the A3 structure methodology, the Innovation Lab provides a specialized tool and expertise to support projects with uncertain solution pathways that require testing and refinement.

Advanced Collaboration Infrastructure: Complementing existing MAU champion networks, the Innovation Lab offers a virtual space for submitting and exploring transformative ideas that could span multiple organizational boundaries.

Integrated Innovation Management: By applying EPMO’s structured oversight and project management expertise,, the Innovation Lab ensures that experimental projects are innovative, accountable, and given resources to progress—balancing flexibility with enterprise-level support.

Pitch Day: The Innovation Lab provides ongoing support for the implementation of ideas submitted through Pitch Day, an annual event hosted by EVPA. Learn more about Pitch Day.