Implementing Agile Methodology To Create A Digital Innovation Ecosystem

Many manufacturing companies recognize the need for innovation to be explicitly fostered and managed in order to provide successful outcomes and stay on top of market trends, but struggle with the introduction and development of a structured approach to how innovation happens in the company.

By exploiting agile management methodologies and tools, organizations not only can innovate products and services, but can also build entire innovation ecosystems that cross functions and even company boundaries.

THE APPROACH

Innovation comes in different shapes and forms. Keeping an eye on the external environment to monitor what competitors, clients and suppliers are doing in terms of innovation on products, components, services and business models, is a key factor for those companies that wish to maintain a good level of competitiveness in an ever-changing market.

However, it is just as important to keep an eye inward as well, fostering and managing innovation development inside the company, by putting employees in the right conditions to propose new solutions and develop new technologies both for the manufacture of products sold by the company and their components and for tools and methodologies implemented for the process.

In light of the difficulties that many companies find when trying to innovate, Reply offer includes a helping hand in pursuing the right direction in which to go when innovating.

DEVELOPING A STRUCTURED INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

To enable clients in their paths towards innovation, Envision Reply supports clients in:

• Realizing their own company maturity level regarding innovation capabilities and map it against similar organizations to get a bigger picture of what is happening around them;
• Better understanding clients’ needs, in order to explore the right direction in which to go when creating new products and value propositions – for example thanks to the application of strategies and methodologies to gather and interpret market insights;
• Identifying which enabling technologies best suit the context at hand to manage communication, collaboration and information sharing;
• Collecting and codifying primary and secondary outputs for innovation projects.

Envision Reply project management support in the implementation of smart solutions and digital tools leads its clients not only to exploit new methodologies to create solutions, but to a whole new way of doing innovation in the company.