1. Assessment of Innovative Environment
4/20/2017 8:40 AM
Assessment of Innovative Environment
IHS Goldfire
Firstname Lastname, Title
Month day, 2013

2. Agenda Innovative Environment Assessment Assessment Criteria Questions
4/20/2017 8:40 AM
Innovative Environment Assessment
Objectives and Approach
Assessment Criteria
Questions

3. Objectives Primary Objective Secondary Objective
Assess the implementation and utilization of Innovation Processes for R&D activities
Define areas of improvement
Provide recommendations
Secondary Objective
Identify areas where Innovation Tools , Methodologies and Processes would be beneficial

4. Approach IHS Services Visit one or more Sites
IHS consulting group has developed impressive skills and competences in innovation processes
IHS consultants help the G2000 for 20+ years innovate smarter & faster with more confidence
Visit one or more Sites
Most exhaustive assessment
Interview R&D Users and others
General Managers through Engineers
Number of interviews according to your organization

5. Assessment Criteria

6. Innovative Product Development (IPD)
IPD Vision
Human networks working collaboratively and concurrently on the research and development of innovative products.
Work is digitally defined and globally distributed.
Attributes
Collaborative decisions - designs and processes
Digital innovation workflow
Real time sharing
No geographic or organizational boundaries

7. IPD Capability Model IPD VISION
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Product Innovation Encompasses Four Core Competencies
Value-Driven
Business
High
Performance
Organization
Cross-
Functional
Processes
Departmental/
Individual/
Localized
Knowledge & Information
Management
IPD
VISION
ORGANIZATION
TRANSFORMATION
Innovation Tools and Methodologies
IT and
Communications
Organization and Process Improvement
BENEFITS

8. Knowledge and Information Management
Capture and Manage Internal Knowledge and External Information during R&D projects
Research activities
Efficient access to the Internal Knowledge
Tech Watch and Documentation
Competitive and Market Analysis
Supply Chain
Library analysis models
Powerful search and access management
Knowledge Management team and processes
Enable Collaboration among Distributed Teams

9. Innovation Tools and Methodologies
Root-Cause Analysis
Function Models and Value Analysis
Risk Analysis : FMEA, …
Structured Brainstorming, Think Out of the Box
Innovative Problem Solving
Technology forecasting
IP portfolio management
Integration
Limited number of software that support methodological tools
R&D processes

10. IT and Communications Infrastructure Applications Support
Data Server configuration
Network bandwidth to handle increased amount of data
Within a facility
Across Facilities
Performance Management
Applications
s, instant messaging, social network, …
Support
Centralized support
Data Security
Systems Administration
Network Management
Contingency Management

11. Organization and Process Improvement
Innovative Product Development Processes
Documented
Review Processes
Everyone who adds value is involved up front
Collaboration
Other Areas of Interest
Training - Technology and Process
Communication
Breaking through cultural barriers - Change management
Empowerment
Continuous Improvement
Community of Innovation

12. Assessment Framework Innovative Product Development Maturity Level I
The Crawl
Maturity Level II
The Walk
Maturity Level III
The Run
Maturity Level IV
The Win!
Knowledge & Information Management
Poor/Inconsistent documentation
Siloed on individually owned locations
Difficult to find & share
Documentation & sharing encouraged
Information maintained on shared locations/document management systems
Limited (keyword) search & weak access management
External sources collected
Project centered documentation & collaboration process
Powerful (unstructured & structured) search & access management
Knowledge Management team in place
Standardized documentation & publication process
Collaborative, version controlled document management
Highly skilled, collaborative research community
Innovation Tools & Methodologies
Ad hoc problem identification & reporting
Trial & error problem solving
Inconsistent knowledge capture & sharing
Ad hoc product idea generation
Limited market/opportunity validation
Non – systematic product feature selection
Simple root cause analysis
Intuition (experience) based solution selection
First “sufficient “ solution implemented
Limited knowledge capture
Systematic VOC process
Market reactive feature set selection
Risk mitigation through incremental innovation
Systematic problem reporting
Internal experience & expertise search
Collaborative RCA & problem solving
Good knowledge capture & sharing mechanisms
Automated monitoring of market & technology trends
Systematic opportunity identification & validation
Systematic feature prioritization & concept generation
Preemptive risk management
Systematic solution prioritization & prototyping
Long term /next gen planning
Automated knowledge capture & sharing
Strategic IP portfolio management
Optimal portfolio risk/reward management
Ability to implement Blue Ocean & market disruption strategies

13. Innovative Product Development Organization & Process Improvement
Assessment Framework
Innovative Product Development
Maturity Level I
The Crawl
Maturity Level II
The Walk
Maturity Level III
The Run
Maturity Level IV
The Win!
IT & Communications
Low IT infrastructure
No network
Data on local computers
No effective communication between users
No internet access
Local IT infrastructure
Local network
Shared data on server s
Some internet access
Global IT infrastructure
Global network
Shared data on specific applications (DMS, PLM)
Intranet portal
Instant messaging
Internet access for all users
Standardized applications
All data and documents shared globally
Global documents access rights management
Internal social network
Limited data on personnal computer
Organization & Process Improvement
Individual, self development of skills
No consistent best practice culture
Team based adoption of research & problem solving practices
Regular training & skill development offered to staff
Well established Community of Practice
Planned expertise development & mentoring
Systematic best practices development & dissemination

14. Assessment Results
A rating is done on several topics for each core competencies according to the interviews’ results
A final rating is calculated for each core competencies

15. IPD Segments IPD VISION Future Position Current Position
Maturity Level
Current
Position
Time
Value

16. Companies are Achieving Real Benefits
Schneider Electric
WW Knowledge Management initiative (Team, Process, Solution)
Re-use of existing internal knowledge from past projects on current projects (don’t reinvent the wheel, use validated solutions)
Capitalization of Tech Watch and competitive analysis results to fuel projects
Better quality of identified external information (technical experts involvement)
Faster and better research activities
Problem solving
Systematic Root Cause Analysis to identify the right causes and capitalization
Solution identification in internal knowledge or external information
Brainstorming tool to generate new concepts
Accelerated process to analyze and solve technical problems
Identification of other improvement axis in Strategy and Product Marketing department.
Initial Maturity Level
Final Maturity Level

17. Companies are Achieving Real Benefits
Boston Scientific

18. Companies are Achieving Real Benefits
Medtronic

19. Questions and Next Step
4/20/2017
Product Innovation Encompasses Four Core Competencies
Value-Driven
Business
High
Performance
Organization
Cross-
Functional
Processes
Departmental/
Individual/
Localized
Knowledge & Information
Management
IPD
VISION
ORGANIZATION
TRANSFORMATION
Innovation Tools and Methodologies
Future
Position
IT and
Communications
Current
Position
Organization and Process Improvement
BENEFITS