Proposition of a tools selection method to support and favour innovation for a manufacturing company

DS 87-2 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 17) Vol 2: Design Processes, Design Organisation and Management, Vancouver, Canada, 21-25.08.2017

Year: 2017
Editor: Anja Maier, Stanko Škec, Harrison Kim, Michael Kokkolaras, Josef Oehmen, Georges Fadel, Filippo Salustri, Mike Van der Loos
Author: Lacom, Pauline; Bazzaro, Florence; Sagot, Jean-Claude
Series: ICED
Institution: 1: Université Technologie Belfort Montbéliard, France; 2: Lisi Automotive, France
Section: Design Processes, Design Organisation and Management
Page(s): 427-436

Abstract

Nowadays, companies have to innovate in order to cope with competition, and to ensure the durability of their activities. Innovation is more and more perceived as a result. Users can be involved in this process to diversify the types of innovation. However, it can be difficult for companies which are novice at the subject to set-up an innovation process. This is especially true for manufacturing companies operating on a B2B market. As far as we know, the specific features of innovation in such companies have not been studied a lot. In this context, we will try in our paper to define which are the first steps of the innovation process that could be set up by such companies. Then, we will try to determine tools, techniques and/or methods for each step of our innovation process. After that, we will do a proposition of a tools selection method, to determine the best tools for each step. This selection of best tools will be applied in a manufacturing company operating on a B2B market. A study in a manufacturing company enables to validate the pertinence of our proposition.

Keywords: Innovation, Research methodologies and methods, Organizational processes, Innovation tools, Manufacturing company

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