What do you do if your innovative ideas in Marine Engineering are not being heard by your boss?

Take feedback to prepare more comprehensive idea/solution based on the objections raised . Elaborate wherever required to bring more clarity .

The best way to capture your boss attention with your innovation ,it to make it more simple as ever for a lay man to understand because most managers are not technical incline which pose difficulties to understand innovative improvement.

Innovative ideas are often very complicated for senior management to understand. These ideas are then sent down to the engineering department where key decision makers are reluctant to buy in to anything that may threaten their position and impose any factor of risk.

I document them clearly, highlighting benefits and feasibility. Request a dedicated meeting with my boss to present your ideas, ensuring you address potential concerns and how they align with company goals. Seek feedback to refine my proposals. I seek in gaining support from colleagues or involving them in brainstorming sessions to strengthen my propositions. If direct efforts persistently fail, I explore internal channels for innovation submission or look for industry forums to present my ideas, expanding the visibility.

I do agree with Jerry. It's tough to convince the senior management specially Indian origins. I am sure situations remain same in most of the place. As they work with predetermined thoughts and normally not open to change. However, I have fearlessly communicated my thoughts and I can take note more than 50 percentage have been accommodated in organizational manual or adopted silently with giving any credit to me. However, I still feel happy that my idea is accommodated with pain no credit to me. I remember I suggested one of the organisation how to overcome short supply of skill an year and half before. Went with reminders. All in vain. I thought idea is shelved. But after an year when I planned to quit idea is in and I am working as last.

Yes . That's important but most importantly the management must be open to sit with ideas , discuss the short fall , review them and make workable. When given freedom I have been successful in getting my idea implemented and it's worked well until I left 4 years. But the individual who brings they also need some encouragement in terms of appreciation and compensation and recognition. The once I sat until 3 am night to when ensure my idea is communicated as boss sitting in other country said he is busy. Later 3 am he said he is free and I called. We spoke . He agreed that technically my idea is good but he will not go with as 2 percent chances of failing. I accepted. That's ok when we give idea we also must be open. Can't force idea only .

Viele Techniker würden sagen, dass aus ihrer Sicht in vielen Fällen Innovationen kein Gehör in der Führungsebene finden. Allerdings sind die Ursachen nicht selten in einer viel zu komplexen Darstellung bzw. schriftlichen Form zu finden. Der von den Technikern gehasste one-pager hilft hier weiter. Eine detaillierte Darstellung ist zwar nicht möglich, aber eine geschickt, mit den wesentlichen Eigenschaften gespickte Kurzinformation wird aufmerksamer studiert und wird bei Interesse zu Rückfragen führen. Dann ist der richtige Zeitpunkt für detaillierte Informationen.

Quite a few years back we approached one of the large yachting magazines about publishing some of our advanced fuel saving hull technology. They were very receptive. At the Monaco boat show they ran the idea of such an article past several architects who all claimed that they were pursuing the same holy grail. The magazine decided to expand the article to include all of the state of the art technology under development. When it came time to write the article only one of the many experts that they had spoken had anything to say. Everyone that you talk to has some work just as good as the innovation that you have developed or have a reason why it has no benefit.