Analysis of external Product and Service innovation
Problems and Solutions
Analyzing the external product developments and innovations is often not performed on a regular basis. Let alone the analysis of the innovations that the organization can offer in serving these products. Enterprise Architects helps with:
- Collecting and registering the competitive product innovations and developments
- Collecting and registering technological innovations and placing them in the so-called hype cycle
- Presenting the innovative opportunities including pain thresholds and gain opportunities
Tools to support Product Lifecycle Management
The idea-to-planning solution used to support the decision making and planning can be used to support and register the product, service, and technological innovation :
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Registering potential innovations, delivering opportunities for the already developed products, services and innovations in their context of the architecture and design continua, and support the decision making until initiatives become available for Information Planning; here the focus is specifically on external innovation and developments. |
Advantages of the Enterprise Architects approach
- Collecting and registering all competitive products and services, collecting external innovations
- Supporting the opportunity finding possibilities
- Develop initial pain/gain and value creation settings
- Support the decision making for Information Planning
- The SAFe™ Core Values are safeguarded and improved as follows
- Alignment
- Transparency