Innovation Toolkit About ITK
Our team aims to cultivate and share proven mindsets, methods, and processes that help make innovation more approachable, effective, and fun for all.
MITRE Innovation Toolkit Tour
Our Story
Team Toolkit started as a casual group of diverse innovation enthusiasts at MITRE who began to see patterns and overlap in the types of problems and challenges that our sponsors deal with across government. We asked ourselves how we could think and work more like innovators and help others do the same.
We gathered and curated a collection of innovation tools and methods from across industry, government, and academia and paired it with our own knowledge and experience of MITRE and our Sponsors’ problems. Ever since, we have been iterating and refining the resulting Innovation Toolkit with the goal of democratizing innovation. Today our team perpetuates these innovation practices across the US government and the globe. We invite you to join our community of practitioners and innovators to share how these tools and practices work for you.
ITK Founders
We are a cross-disciplinary team of engineers at The MITRE Corporation who are dedicated to providing a creative approach to problem-solving by offering tools, methods, and techniques that lead to data-driven solutions.
Jen Choi 
Rachel Gregorio
Aileen Laughlin
Stephanie Medicke
Melanie Shere
Dan Ward
Kaylee White
Niall White
Jessica Yu
Success Stories
Brokering Consensus On Failure
ITK isn’t just for work projects. In this week’s post, Gabby shares a story of using the Premortem tool as she and her husband look to buy a house.
ITK & F-35
This week's guest post is by Rick Dunham, from MITRE's Air/Ground Surveillance Program, and it highlights a recent application of the Innovation Toolkit to the F-35 program. On Nov. 5-6, MITRE’s F-35 Lightning II Enterprise Focus team met in Dayton, Ohio, to build...
Team Toolkit’s Road Show!
Hot. Muggy. Humid. Like a swamp (but not really). Yep, I’m talking about DC summers. The time when tourists and summer interns descend en masse upon the District, and the locals grumble about these visitors mistakenly standing on the left side of the metro escalators....