Example of the 5 Building Block Framework
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Example of the 5 building block framework Honeywell ACS conducted innovation workshop for developing wireless technology and understanding customer needs for it. It invited people from various parts of the company to get the market opportunities. By the end of the workshop, it was clear that the opportunity for wireless was immense. The company get technology and marketing people, along with industry experts and customers, to work together to create a seamless flow of ideas and move from the verge outline of an opportunity to a clearer definition of actual projects with numbers tied to them. Then business leaders check the feasibility of the projects and make decisions about whether to pursue them. It proved to be a breakthrough in solving the biggest cultural problem company have with innovation. In addition to the workshop, ACS uses an online tool to collect ideas. When a business unit leader assumes ownership of an idea that emerges from one of the workshops, he engages his entire team, the Product Action Council (PAC). The PAC includes the business unit president, and his sales, finance, technology and marketing people. The PACs are an effective way to select the ones that show the most promise and best fit with the company’s goals and strategies. A group of technical people together created money of about $40,000 to fund the new online tool. All its information is online and available for anyone in ACS to see. The tool provides an overview of the entire portfolio of projects so they can prioritize and allocate resources accordingly. The PAC ensures that everyone is connected. People have the process, tools and even expectations that make collaborating as part of normal way they do their jobs. Because people from manufacturing and marketing are part of the PAC, they start their work earlier and products move faster and more smoothly to commercialization.
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Honeywell ACS conducted innovation workshop for developing wireless technology and understanding customer needs for it. It invited people from various parts of the company to get the market opportunities. By the end of the workshop, it was clear that the opportunity for wireless was immense. The company get technology and marketing people, along with industry experts and customers, to work together to create a seamless flow of ideas and move from the verge outline of an opportunity to a clearer definition of actual projects with numbers tied to them. Then business leaders check the feasibility of the projects and make decisions about whether to pursue them. It proved to be a breakthrough in solving the biggest cultural problem company have with innovation. In addition to the workshop, ACS uses an online tool to collect ideas.
When a business unit leader assumes ownership of an idea that emerges from one of the workshops, he engages his entire team, the Product Action Council (PAC). The PAC includes the business unit president, and his sales, finance, technology and marketing people. The PACs are an effective way to select the ones that show the most promise and best fit with the company’s goals and strategies.
A group of technical people together created money of about $40,000 to fund the new online tool. All its information is online and available for anyone in ACS to see. The tool provides an overview of the entire portfolio of projects so they can prioritize and allocate resources accordingly. The PAC ensures that everyone is connected. People have the process, tools and even expectations that make collaborating as part of normal way they do their jobs.
Because people from manufacturing and marketing are part of the PAC, they start their work earlier and products move faster and more smoothly to commercialization.
What Honeywell ACS business has assembled is an end-to-end process of innovation that is integrated with the business. Along the way, kill projects that no longer show promises to free up people with expertise.
