Connects business, technology and community problem owners to evaluate responsible innovations against need, feasibility, risk and adoption—not novelty alone.
Where this idea came from
Playbook entry
M-T1-BV-16 · Rotary Business Innovation Forum
Theme
Theme 1: Attraction & Visibility · Subtheme BV: Business Visibility
Source material
Existing checked Theme 1 guide
Linked playbook entry
M-T1-BV-16 · Rotary Business Innovation Forum
Why a club might use this
Local challenges gain tested innovation options and organisations avoid adopting technology that creates new exclusion, privacy or safety harms.
Use it when
Businesses, social enterprises, researchers, community organisations, users and technical or governance experts. Use when a community or industry challenge has several plausible innovation routes.
Before the club starts
Challenge brief includes user need, existing solutions, constraints and harm scenarios.
Evaluation rubric covers benefit, evidence, accessibility, privacy, security and total cost.
IP, procurement, sponsor and conflict rules approved.
Capacity guide
Likely cost
$$–$$$ — technical review, access and a capped experiment; no purchase implied.
Lead time
10–14 weeks plus pilot period.
People
6–9 members and partners including users, technical reviewers and governance lead.
How to put it into practice
Detailed implementation steps for Rotary Business Innovation Forum
Step
Action
Suggested owner
1
Validate the challenge and success test with users and operators.
Forum challenge owner
2
Invite solution briefs through an open, non-procurement process.
Innovation coordinator
3
Screen proposals for evidence, conflicts and unacceptable risks.
Technical and ethics reviewers
4
Run user-led comparisons and select at most one bounded experiment.
Independent forum chair
5
Document the trial authority, stop conditions and evaluation owner.
Pilot sponsor
Controls and safeguards
The forum is not a tender and creates no supplier preference or purchase commitment.
No live personal data or vulnerable-user testing without separate approval.
HIGH — procurement perception, technology harm, privacy, security and IP require an explicit non-tender and pilot-governance boundary.
What to measure
Proposals assessed against the full rubric.
Follow-up: Send proponents a reasoned outcome within seven days; publish the pilot decision and run a formal stop/go review at the agreed evidence point.
Membership HubLegendary Clubs PackageM-T1-BV-16