CIMdata Announces Multi-Sponsor Research Study to Help Accelerate the Development of the Global Enterprise Innovation Market

Fernandina Beach, FL, August 11, 2015 (Newswire.com) - ​CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM consulting and research firm, announces the initiation of a multi-sponsor research project to create an Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM) Solutions guide to help accelerate the development of the global EIM market for the benefit of both solution providers and industry. Co-sponsors of the research effort are e-Zassi, Planview, Siemens PLM Software, and Sopheon.

The goal of the research is to address the existing concerns and typical questions—as well as preempt the emerging concerns—of industrial companies about implementing EIM by providing market education and motivating web events. Through a series of thought leadership interviews with solution provider peers, development of a whitepaper solutions primer on the EIM landscape, and webcast events, CIMdata will define and socialize a common framework of terminology, solution approaches, implementation challenges, and benefits. Through this effort it is expected that industrial companies will become more familiar with enterprise innovation enabling technologies and will feel more prepared to invest in the next generation of solutions that are designed to increase their ability to innovate more effectively and sustainably.

"Industrial companies appear slower to invest in EIM than they should be for the competitive benefits that can be attained. This hesitancy to act is due largely to the confusion, uncertainty, and ambiguity from the substantial differences in terminology, solution approaches, strategies, best practices, and benefit claims that they hear from a plethora of innovation management solution providers. This confusion has been further inflated by the lack of confidence in how industrial companies can best employ social media and other new collaborative innovation tools both internally in product development as well as externally with their supply chain and customers."

Dr. Suna Polat, Director responsible for Collaborative Innovation and Social Product Development

According to Dr. Suna Polat, CIMdata’s Director responsible for Collaborative Innovation and Social Product Development, “Industrial companies appear slower to invest in EIM than they should be for the competitive benefits that can be attained. This hesitancy to act is due largely to the confusion, uncertainty, and ambiguity from the substantial differences in terminology, solution approaches, strategies, best practices, and benefit claims that they hear from a plethora of innovation management solution providers. This confusion has been further inflated by the lack of confidence in how industrial companies can best employ social media and other new collaborative innovation tools both internally in product development as well as externally with their supply chain and customers.”

To participate in this unique EIM research effort as a “thought leader” solution provider, or in one of our Industry Chief Innovation Officer interviews  contact Dr. Suna Polat 

About CIMdata

CIMdata, a leading independent worldwide firm, provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise’s ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Since its founding in 1983, CIMdata has delivered world-class knowledge, expertise, and best-practice methods on PLM solutions. These solutions incorporate both business processes and a wide-ranging set of PLM-enabling technologies.

CIMdata works with both industrial organizations and providers of technologies and services seeking competitive advantage in the global economy. In addition to consulting, CIMdata conducts research, provides PLM-focused subscription services, and produces several commercial publications. The company also provides industry education through PLM certificate programs, seminars, and conferences worldwide. CIMdata serves clients around the world from offices in North America, Europe, and Asia- Pacific. To learn more about CIMdata’s services, visit our website at www.CIMdata.com, follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CIMdataPLMNews, or contact CIMdata at: 3909 Research Park Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA, Tel: +1 734.668.9922. Fax: +1 734.668.1957; or at Oogststraat 20, 6004 CV Weert, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 (0) 495.533.666.

About eZassi™

eZassi is a trailblazer in providing the first fully automated software solution for innovation procurement and idea collaboration.  As enterprises strive to socialize and accelerate R&D in order to sustain robust new product pipelines, eZassi’s Open Innovation collaboration engine is increasingly used to bridge both internal and external ideation and automatically manage and organize the fuzzy front end of ideation so that actionable projects and products can be identified more rapidly and with less time and costs. eZassi’s InnoVision™ software platform provides a single gateway of entry for all parties looking to collaborate and connect directly with enterprises while uniquely mitigating the legal risks of external ideation by using Intelligent Automated Idea Capture methodologies and structuring unstructured data. Coupled with downstream smart data analytics to triage ideas faster and secure data integration into other enterprise applications such as PLM makes eZassi a new standard in open innovation. For more information contact us.