Web-Enabled New Product Development

IDe and development chain management

Integrated Development Enterprise, Inc., (IDe™) was founded in 1998 to develop Web-based software for streamlining and managing the business workflow of integrated product development™. By allowing companies to automate, integrate, and manage the functions and phases of product development, IDe solutions greatly increase development effectiveness.

A Web-based, integrated information network provides all participants in the development chain with real-time insight into the status of projects and portfolios, informing decision-making at all levels and optimizing the use of precious personnel resources. This allows companies to better meet (and more fully exploit) market windows, reduce time to market and wasted effort, and gain competitive advantage by improving R&D productivity, predictability, throughput and profitability.

IDe solutions address product development management challenges

Critical to business success

• Companies must develop new products to stay competitive
• They must leverage new technology across multiple products
• First to market products receive higher market share, margins, and customer satisfaction
• Cost pressures result in having to do more—often with less

High risk

• What is developed today drives revenue in the future
• Fractured information sources reduce predictability and increase risk

High volatility

• Market and business factors change unexpectedly
• Technical risks change as work is completed

IDe DCM solutions

IDe's comprehensive, integrated solutions provide timely and accurate enterprise-wide data and analysis about individual projects, portfolios of projects, and the resources associated with them.

IDe's signature product, IDweb™, comprises four integrated modules (IDpipeline™, IDresources™, IDprojectview™, IDprocess™) that address core product development management functions—portfolio, resource, project, and process management. This integrated product suite, IDe's baseline system, alone surpasses the functionality of competing development management product offerings. Additional IDe products provide integrated idea, financial, partner, and report management capabilities.

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Value of automating, integrating, and managing your development chain with IDe software

• Value of integrated portfolio and pipeline management
  Improved predictability, TTM, and operational excellence

• Increase predictability of portfolio performance with better visibility and tradeoff analysis of planned, active, and released products
• Decrease TTM with real-time visibility into integrated resource, project, and business priorities
  

• Value of integrated resource management:
  Improved throughput and operational excellence

• Increase throughput by sequencing projects to effectively use your resource capacity
• Assign resources based on business priority

• Value of integrated project management:
  Improved productivity, predictability, and TTM

• Improve productivity by reducing time spent looking for information from 40 percent to 5 percent
• Increase predictability by reconciling top-down (strategic) project plans with bottom-up estimates and actuals
• Speed time to market because of more efficient project execution

• Value of integrated process management:
  Improved productivity, predictability, and operational excellence
  

• Increase productivity and operational excellence by automating lessons learned, best practices, and team members
• Increase predictability by automatically incorporating standards across the organization

IDweb, IDe's baseline solution

With IDweb, you can:

• Reconcile strategy with actual day-to-day development activities
• Make decisions based on real-time, integrated information
• Understand the business context of decisions regarding development projects, portfolios, resources, and tradeoffs

IDweb's four integrated modules support multi-project development throughout the entire product development lifecycle, from product and project planning to resource allocation and portfolio management. IDweb is unique in its ability to manage interdependencies among development resources, programs, business plans, products, and processes, enabling an organization to leverage development information and make critical decisions in real time. The user interface is through a standard Web browser, so there is no desktop software maintenance burden, either for initial installation or for upgrades.

Access to IDweb modules is through Centers—dashboard-like portals that present filtered information based on the user-specific roles.

Improve productivity with state-of-the-art role-based centers:

• Executive Center
• Resource Center
• Team Center
• Process Center
• Partner Center

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The Team Center leverages the strengths of cross-functional teams

• Views of project risks, status, and new information
• At-a-glance information about all aspects of a project
• Consistent place to find the latest project information
• Configured to needs of each user
  

IDweb functions include:

• Portfolio and pipeline management
• Resource planning and management
• Project planning and management
• Process planning and management

Portfolio and pipeline management The IDpipeline Executive Center gives executives and senior managers access to integrated product development information relevant to the business portfolios that they manage. Real-time IDpipeline portfolio charts enable users to analyze portfolio progress, create business scenarios, and evaluate portfolio strategies. A phase review management center allows executives to monitor individual project status, access project review materials, and log notes and decisions regarding specific projects.

Introduce the right new products at the right time

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Portfolio management aligns portfolio with strategic goals

• Implement clear and consistent project selection criteria
• Monitor progress of entire product line or business unit
• Assess key business metrics to increase predictability of overall project and portfolio success
• Easily assess effects of a single project decision on entire portfolio
  

Resource Planning and Management The Resource Center in IDresources gives resource and functional managers a centralized location to review, prioritize, manage and assign resource requests and make assignments to project teams. They can detect and relieve resource bottlenecks before they occur.

Better sequence resource assignments and project schedules with visibility into resource capacity

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Resource management ensures resources are available for key projects

• Optimize project prioritization and selection, strategic resource allocation, and portfolio valuation
• Maximize pipeline throughput in light of the organization’s true resource capacity
• Gain visibility into overcapacity and slack to anticipate pipeline imbalances soon enough to preempt them

 

Project Planning and Management the IDprojectview Team Center provides an integrated, project-oriented interface to portfolio, resource and project data relevant to project team members. Use of subprojects and cross-project dependencies allows project management to be distributed to the extended team while links to the main program are maintained,. Best practice templates and analysis tools help project teams to evaluate plans, monitor progress and adjust to changing business needs and resource constraints.

Actively manage project risks

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Top-down, bottom-up project management

• Maintain project schedule stability while tracking the volatile day-to-day details
• Easily view highlighted risks to the project schedule
• Maintain management control while enabling team members to update their activities
• Easily run what-if scenarios on your project schedule
  

Process Planning and Management In the Process Center of IDprocess, companies define the business structure, business drivers, best practices, team structures and security standards that determine how information is collected, exchanged and reported in IDweb. By incorporating business-specific rules in IDprocess, companies can ensure that product development projects are closely aligned with the business objectives.

IDfinancials™

IDfinancials allows companies to standardize product development financial measurements, helping managers to capture and evaluate cross-functional budgeting decisions based on real-time data, and to forecast future financial performance. IDfinancials is based on IDe proprietary Product Data Object (PDO) technology, which enables complex aggregation, calculation and filtering of financial data collected and tracked based on business groupings, such as business units, portfolio, product line or market segment. IDfinancials uses Microsoft Component Object Model technology to exchange data with standard financials and accounting software products.

Align functional budgets with project spending across your company

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Roll up and report on new product financials; collect and report consistent financial metrics

• Average reduction of 30 days in time to complete financial feasibility studies, reducing TTM by 10 percent
• Real-time charts that allow the project team to track project and tooling costs on a planned, goal, and actual basis
• Ability to compare financial data across portfolios in real time
  

 

IDpartner™

IDpartner expands the project management capabilities of IDweb to the extended enterprise—contractors, suppliers and customers-to increase visibility, coordination and speed of outsourced efforts. Project teams can securely share selected project items with development partners in real time. Partners can access this information, make changes and add items through a Partner Center accessible through a Web browser. With IDpartner, co-development cycle-time information, documentation, design files, notes, meeting minutes, and other visual information are stored centrally and distributed to both the lead developer and partners.

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