Accelerate Innovation Delivery
Development of innovative new products and technologies is critical to most organizations:
- 6-month improvement in time to market yields a profit improvement of 22%1
- 1% improvement in innovation output translates to a 33% increase in valuation2
Successful translation of innovation into products in today’s complex supply-chains demands a new approach: How you spend is far more important than how much.
InspiRD’s award winning software helps organizations get to market faster with winning products.
Simple solutions to planning challenges:
Insufficient visibility into the development portfolio
Lack of coordination between engineering & marketing
Difficulty managing interdependencies between components
Difficulty identifying and focusing on disruptive innovation
Inability to leverage cross-product synergies
Duplicative efforts or wasted development
High costs of maintaining roadmap visualizations
Full set of features that enhance roadmapping:
Use a Web 2.0 interface to easily access RD&E plans
Divide large projects into subprojects
Link projects across products & track interdependencies
Receive notifications to coordinate changes
Dynamically generate product, tech & market roadmaps
Optimally enforce structured planning processes
Unprecedented benefits:
Enhance collaboration across locations and diciplines
Provide a strategic focus to RD&E
Synchronize development of interdependent efforts
Capitalize on additional applications of active projects
Eliminate duplicative efforts and development slack
Reduce planning and roadmap generation costs
Simple solutions for portfolio prioritization challenges:
Large costs of synthesizing resource needs
Needs outstrip availability with many conflicting priorities
Hard to align portfolio with business strategy
Difficulty gauging long-term impact of decisions
Difficulty estimating cascading effects of decisions
Difficulty funding strategic thrusts or disruptive innovation
Simplify portfolio prioritization and increase transparency:
Compute full life-cycle resource needs from the database
Visualize staffing needs across strategic dimensions
Address cross-product interdependencies
Evaluate future impact of each investment decision
Perform what-if scenario analysis to explore decisions
Access historical trends to support decision-making
InspiRD Invest will rapidly align RD&E portfolio with business strategy:
Balance investments and staffing across conflicting priorities
Optimize the R&D portfolio over long-term
Fast-cycle strategic development to improve time-to-market
Identify and accelerate cross-product synergies
Transparently communicate decisions
Demonstrate R&D’s contribution to overall business
Simple solutions to project execution challenges:
Differing expectations about project objectives/timeline
Disconnected plans and wishful launch dates
Late or uncoordinated requirements changes
Difficulty adapting to changing market needs
Limited business/marketing visibility into development
Unexpected risks and surprise issues
Difficult coordination across locations and disciplines
Disconnected test plans and expensive testing
Late assignment of resources
Hard to access project history / knowledge
Full set of features that enhance execution:
Each requirement, risk, test or task stored individually in the database
Link project execution to roadmaps
Connect task plans to customer requirements
Capture and manage project risks (FMEA)
Link testing to requirements and risks
Tie task plans to requirements and risks
Use automatic notifications to simplify coordination
Effectively track costs (estimates and actuals)
Unprecedented benefits:
Coordinate launch dates and linked plans
Automate change coordination
Minimize surprise risks through integrated FMEA
Integrated structured time phased knowledge
Maintain a transparent chain of evidence
Simplify Design Controls (Life Sciences)
Reduce administrative burden & enhance innovation
Optimize process enforcement
Leverage historical knowledge to improve project outcomes
Simple solutions to program management challenges:
Difficulty tracking changes across projects
Large costs of synthesizing execution data
Vague deliverables and expensive reporting
Reporting distracts from execution
Porous gates and variable process enforcement
Limited business perspective in reviews
Hard to trade schedule for requirements
Difficulty gauging long-term impact of decisions
Difficulty estimating cascading effects of decisions
Full set of features that simplify program management:
Portal to monitor changes across locations and disciplines
Live dashboards to guide project performance
Automatic reporting and deliverables generation
Ability to define standard deliverable templates
Analysis cost of features and trade features for schedule
What-if scenario analysis to explore decisions
Ability to cascading impact of each change
Access historical trends to support decision-making
Unprecedented benefits:
Identify variances early and develop mitigation plans
Orchestrate cross-functional innovation
Lead complex activities spanning multiple locations
Make complex decisions such as trade performance for schedule
Capitalize on additional applications for active projects
Ensure accountability for cross-enterprise projects
Fast-cycle strategic development to improve time-to-market
Identify and accelerate cross-product synergies
Transparent clearly communicated decisions
InspiRD Skills
InspiRD’s Skills Alignment solution provides unique, easy-to-use tools to align staffing with an ever changing product mix.
Simple solutions to staffing challenges:
Teams disrupted to fight fires
Late assignment or early team disbanding
Late involvement of downstream functions
Unfocused, poorly coordinated teams
Full set of features that enhance skill-set management:
Synthesize staffing needs and mix
Analyze planned vs. actual performance
Develop action plans to address skill imbalances
Evaluate individual and team performance
Unprecedented benefits:
Stable, prioritized resource allocation
Long-term resource visibility & optimization
Focused and motivated teams
Disciplined processes, stages and gates
InspiRD Portal
Our knowledge portal provides a central location for project teams to track action items and issues, discover changes and lessons learned.
Simple solutions to coordination and collaboration challenges:
Teams spending significant effort identifying changes
Changes in team have significant consequences
Hard to collaborate with partners and suppliers
Hard to leverage historical knowledge
Full set of features that enhance skill-set management:
Unified portal for accessing all changes across locations
Easy to access design history
Focused virtual discussion groups across locations
Automated gadgets to locate useful past knowledge
Unprecedented benefits:
Simplified coordination across locations
Enhanced collaboration across disciplines
Efficient changes in team memberships
Easy access to past knowledge and lessons learned