The rules governing innovation have changed dramatically over the last few years. Outsourcing and partnerships with customers and suppliers have transformed the innovation process from ideas that percolate within a manufacturer’s own four walls to collaboration across a virtual value chain. As a result, manufacturers must establish new organizational, process, and technology frameworks to successfully break through corporate barriers and foster these new, business-critical forms of interaction.
This white paper will provide manufacturing executives with an overview of:
- the architecture required to support next-generation,borderless networks
- creating the rewards systems and metrics that foster collaborative innovation
- best practices for creating and nurturing a collaborative innovation ecosystem