ENTOV-HVM Accelerating Innovation Diffusion - Case Study 1: “Winning the Bid”
Dear all, this first of a series of case studies is aimed at
our “invisible college” (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_College)
of innovation webs and diffusion of innovation enthusiasts. The case study is a
first step towards a case study series in Harvard Business School format that will
be integral to the learning curriculum proposed for development in our
Knowledge Alliance proposal (see downloads page at www.innovation-web.eu). All comments
and suggestions welcome of course. If you would like to try out the case study
in your company or with your students please let me know if you would like
further guidance on getting best results. If you would like to contribute a
case study let us know as well – it will take about two calls of an hour each
with some short email exchanges in-between.
Like all of the upcoming case studies, this specific case
study is based on a real success story in industry and fully anonymized /
abstracted to protect the innocent. Completing the case study should take 2-4 hours depending on the number of participants.
The problem tackled in this case study is:
“Jack works for a
medium sized aerospace OEM and is responsible for an internal facility
manufacturing various components in an
18 shift pattern with 1,000 shopfloor and 400 office staff. The facility is
bidding against five other internal and three external facilities for an
internal long term contract to manufacture components for a new product.
The sourcing decision will be made based on the lowest cost
proposal and Jack suspects he needs to reduce his initially estimated cost by
50%. The only way to master this challenge is to implement a new manufacturing
method of 150 operations across 45 machine
types and special processes supported by new IT systems within 3 months of
winning the contract and at a cost of 20% of the current proposal. In the past
similar changes have taken at least 5 years and cost at least three times the
initially proposed cost.
If his facility does not win the contract, Jack expects that
he will need to reduce 30% of his shopfloor and office staff immediately and the future of the facility as
a whole is threatened. Jack has heard of a new method called “innovation” webs
to massively reduce the time (and thus costs)
of designing, developing, implementing and diffusing the needed manufacturing
methods and IT systems.
Jack has asked you to advise him of what he needs to
consider in order to implement the “innovation web” approach for mastering the
challenge described. After a discussion with a colleague of Jack at another
facility you have prepared the map of a similar previous challenge that was
resolved at another facility.”
The full case study is available at:
Enjoy!
P.S. If you are interested in learning more
please visit us at www.innovation-web.eu,
our LinkedIn Group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8779542/,
our blog at https://www.innovation-web.eu/entov-hvm-blog,
our Researchgate project page at https://www.researchgate.net/project/Open-European-Network-for-Enterprise-Innovation-in-High-Value-Manufacturing-ENTOV-HVM,
our Sourceforge page at https://sourceforge.net/projects/entov-hvm/
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