R&D

Efficient integration of knowledge and innovation for research and development

Assess your current situation

• Redundant work processes occur regularly as well as inadequate allocation of work packages or inappropriate approaches that are used more than once
• R&D projects are mostly divided into several organisation-wide work packages. The exchange of experience and specialist knowledge happens only from time to time.
• There is no information available about who has done similar developments before.
• The number of innovations that have been introduced is insufficient
• Most of your engineers work individually, innovation subjects that affect several different parts of your organisation are supported only occasionally.

Possible solutions

• The most important lessons learnt and best practices are stored on an experience database
• Research and development communities as well as networks are created
• Yellow pages deliver information on employees, their work domains and their degree of involvement.
• Analysis of innovation potentials and development of a robust innovation strategy
• Implementation of innovation planning in roadmaps
• Implementation of creativity enhancement methods
• Development of a process-based idea management

Methods and tools

• K.lessons
• K.community
• K.people
• I.evaluation
• I.road
• I.creativity
• I.idea
• I.networks
  
  
• KMmaster