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 versus challenging the crowd (internal and external to the company) to contribute to innovate.
Goals and Objectives
Enhance the sphere of ideation influence and team that engineering and R&D have to support NPI or product changes.
Technology Deployed
Hardware: AR/VR, smartphones, tablets, and wearables; software: cloud, CAD, CAE, PLM, PPM ideation, social, blockchain, and security; and services: business services and IT services
Use Case Summary
R&D/engineering that are consistently leveraging the wisdom of the crowd as part of development to solve problems and innovate processes and products