Current Situation
Collaboration is ad hoc at best, only when necessary internally and externally. Innovation funnels are used by about half of companies, but true multi-functional collaboration is the exception.
Goals and Objectives
The objectives are better customer requirements satisfaction, lower costs, fast fail for unpromising ideation, greater right first time, consistently high quality.
Technology Deployed
Hardware: Servers, storage, IoT, smartphones, tablets, wearables
Software: Cloud, Social, CAD, CAM, CAE, PLM, ERP, Office tools, security
Services: Business services, IT services
Use Case Summary
The use case includes a collaborative science-driven product innovation platform across the internal/external team with access to historical and current data to leverage internal and external knowledge, conduct analytics, avoid the mistakes of the past, and align efforts around organizational strategic objectives to deliver sustained innovation excellence.