Current Situation
Few organizations leverage internal external resources consistently for new product development, engineering, and R&D, choosing to keep decision making at the workgroup level vs. challenging the crowd (internal and external to the company) to contribute to innovation.
Goals and Objectives
Enhance the sphere of ideation influence and team that engineering and R&D has to support NPI, or product changes.
Technology Deployed
Hardware: AR/VR, smartphones, tablets, wearables
Software: Cloud, CAD, CAE, PLM, PPM ideation, social, blockchain, security
Services: Business services, IT services
Use Case Summary
R&D/Engineering are consistently leveraging the wisdom of the crowd as part of development to solve problems and innovate processes and products.