Manage Innovations and Ideas with Idea Management Solutions

Most economists consider manufacturing as a wealth-producing sector of an economy. This holds true, because it is the manufacturing sector that helps to develop a sustainable economic environment, promote domestic and foreign investment, and enhance a country’s balance of payments. Moreover, the manufacturing sector creates a significant number of job opportunities not only within the sector but also within other sectors such as logistics, financial services, customer support, education and training, information systems, real estate, infrastructure development and maintenance, and health care. Hence, manufacturing companies play a very important role in a country’s long-term prosperity.


The manufacturing sector is the harbinger of innovation. Managing innovation with dexterity is its greatest plus point. However, the economic recession hit the sector hard leading to a drop in orders, job losses, and factory closures. Today the global manufacturing sector is slowly recovering from this economic downturn. However, the spirit of innovativeness inherent in the manufacturing sector was buried in the pressing concerns of the manufacturing companies.


The fact of the matter is challenges are common in any sector and therefore should not be allowed to come in the path of innovation. Instead, enterprises must invest in innovative management solutions to cultivate the innovation culture among the workforce. Take the case of  Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), which adopted an innovative production process called the Integrated Design and Manufacturing (IDAM) for the development of its multi-utility vehicle (MUV), Scorpio. The IDAM team consisted of cross-functional teams including suppliers, who catered to every aspect of product development, from design and testing to vendor development and marketing. Thus with a team of 120 people and an investment of $120 million (just one-fifth of what a world major would have spent on a similar-sized project), M&M developed a successful product that captured a major share of the MUV market in India.


The interesting piece of information highlights the fact that to maximize profit what is required is not huge investments but innovative ideas. Hence, enterprises must deploy an idea management system to launch, monitor, manage, and screen innovations and ideas. Here is a look at some of the benefits of deploying idea management software:


* New competitive products and services

* Process improvements

* Improved collaboration and decision making across teams

* Competitive advantage

* Identify hidden talent and new areas of growth

* Enhanced Brand Value and Brand Loyalty


Idea management solutions, thus, help enterprises to involve the entire ecosystem in the production process and ensure that a superior and viable product reaches the market.


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