Current Situation
Collaboration is ad hoc, focused on top-down form, fit, and function requirements. Innovation funnels are used by about half of companies, but multifunctional collaboration is rare.
Goals and Objectives
Improve product requirements for higher customer satisfaction, lower costs, early identification of risks, and consistently high quality.
Technology Deployed
Hardware: Servers, storage, IoT, mobile devices, and wearables
Software: Cloud, social, CAD, CAM, CAE, PLM, ERP, SCM, SLM, Microsoft Office tools, and security
Services: Business services and 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.