7th October 2014 – Coventry Workshop

FLEXINET Project: an IT perspective

Eva Coscia

Holonix

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Contents

�The IT results expected in FLEXINET

�Support to strategic and tactical decisionmaking

�PSCoMS: package of applications for Product-Service concepts management

�Focus on the Cooperation Environment

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Steps towards GPN configuration

innovative strategic business models

supporting the new product-service are

evaluated and a new business model is

selected (WP2).

reference organisational models and

processes are selected or designed (WP4)

Based on these models, what-if scenarios

are generated and optimal Global

Production Networks is calculated

through a DSS (WP5)Kn

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The IT support to flexible re-organisation of GPN

�The PND – Production Network Design configurator is the collaborative infrastructure to deliver a GPN DecisionSupport System (GPN-DSS)

�GPN DSS provides applications and services for representing, configuring and evaluating global product-service production networks.

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Positioning the PND configurator 5 of XX

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The PND applications

3 main packages:

� ERAS: provides services to evaluate the risks associated with a GPN, by checking the decisions on innovative product-services to be produced against economical and cost risks

� PSCoMS: supports companies in the transitionfrom product-centered to service-centered offer

� PNES: evaluates the impact of adoption of a Business Model (high level) and new technologies(low level) on the GPN; to reconfigure the Production network accordingly

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The IT architecture of FLEXINET

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Focus on the PSCoMS

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Support to (new) Product-Service concept management

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PSCoMS applications

� Idea Manager: to collect, organise, share information about new P/S idea; search for similarideas proposed in the past

� Collaboration Environment: to support multiple player cooperation and decision making processwithin virtual spaces, with shared tools (also from FLEXINET)

� Product-Service configuration: guiding the technical department in the high-level configurationof a new P/S solution

� User Experience Analyser: to collect and analysedata and feedback from trials to support re-engineering of P/S solutions

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Why the Collaborative Environment

�The process behind the approval and delivery of new P/S idea goes through severalintermediate approval «gates»

�Ideas are promoted to the next gate duringphysical meetings where evaluations are performed and results analysed

�Collaborative Environment offer the possibility of making the meeting virtual and to make different information sourcesavailable to empower the decision making

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Some background…

�The FLEXINET Cooperation Environment isbased on the Obeya Methodology whichis…..

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The meaning of Obeya….

� Obeya or Oobeya (from Japanese "large room" or "war room") refers to a form of project management used in Asian companies (including Toyota) and is a component of the Lean Management.

� Is a Visual Project Management technique, all individuals involved with the planning gather in a 'Great Room' to achieve fastest communication and shortest decision-making processes.

� an Obeya will contain highly visual charts and graphs depicting program timing, milestones and progress to date and countermeasures to existing timing or technical problems

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Traditional Obeya room

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The Virtualisation of the Obeya

� A virtual space, provided through a web-availableapplication, to support remote participation to meetings

� In the room it is possible to share contents through«visual» tools and any useful application and collectfeedback

� The same tools and information are visualised on multiple clients (browsers) allowing remote connections to the same meeting

� Access from people and visibility of widgets can be filtered through a permission granting mechanism

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Example 1: Open Innovation Virtual meeting

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Example 2: Internal Meeting for GPN configuration

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Conclusions

�Several applications will be combined intothe PND platform to provide an articulatedDSS for GPN configuration

�Where we are now: detailed design & mockups available

�What next: first prototypes ready by end of 2014

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