Highlights
44 questions structure across 4 categories and 16 areas to quickly assess the performance of your Research and development management. They enable to identify strengths and improvement opportunities based on high level best practices but capturing perception across the organisation.
Areas of diagnosis carefully designed to shine a light on the lifecycle of product innovation and development, from idea collection or customer needs understanding to market delivery.
Both normative questions with specific criteria and questions about personal opinions to get a balance between objective evluation and subjective perception.
Wevalgo scoping framework for Research, Development or Engineering
Questionnaire overview:
SWOT and performance management
- SWOT: general open questions on the strenghts, weaknesses and challenges of the R&D
- Improvement management: questions on the past and current action plans to improve overall R&D
- Roles and responsibilities: questions on the clarity of the roles and responsibilities at different levels of the organisation
- Steering and management: questions on how the R&D is managed through KPIs, management meetings, action plans...
Strategy and standardisation
- Innovation strategy: questions on how the R&D strategy is defined, communicated and understood
- Standardisation: questions on how the components or parts are standardised (for discrete product R&D) or on how the methodologies are standardised (for scientific R&D on 'process' products)
- Technology/science and customer roadmap: questions on the identification of customer anticipated needs roadmap and on either the future technologies available (discrete product) or scientific breakthroughs
- Innovation porfolio: questions on how the Research or Development projects (or ideas, feasibility studies) portfoilo are managed and prioritised
Development process
- Change management: questions on the management of the internal or external change requests
- Project management: questions on the methods used to manage product development projects
- Technical / scientific development: questions on the usage and sharing of documented methods in each technical or science area;
Customer and supplier management
- Customer needs: questions on how the customer needs are identified and managed through the development cycle
- Supplier management: questions on the supplier and sub-contractor management from requirements to delivery
- Requirements management: how the requirements, either coming from the customer or given to suppliers are managed
Improvement priorities (conclusion)
- Priorities : what are the priorities in terms of improvement across various drivers
- Improvement plan and benefits: action plan, key benefits and potential barriers
Specific analyses when used for evaluation
A balance between objective and subjective assessments
The evaluation includes a mix of normative questions with specific and verifiable criteria, and opinion research questions.
It is a balance between objective evaluations and participants' perceptions or comments that allows to:
better contextualize qualitative comments through relative evaluations,measure the degree of consensus among the different participants,understand the reasons or collect different opinions or ideas on strengths, weaknesses, challenges, levers for progress...
Key steps
The best practices are accessible directly after purchase. In case of usage to evaluate the practices the following steps apply
- The service manager* can directly carry out an evaluation by answering the questionnaire (optional); steps 2 to 4 are optional depending on whether he/she wishes to invite other participants to carry out the evaluation
- If he/she wishes to invite other participants to conduct the evaluation, he/she proceeds to steps 2 to 5
- Otherwise he/she goes directly to step 5 of viewing the results
- He/she can still do his evaluation after the participants if he did not do it at the beginning
- Customisation of the service to the organisation by the service manager*
- Service name, title and introduction for the participants invited
- Selection of participants to the service
- Definition of dimension to enable analysis by organisation dimension (optional)
- Selection of anonymity option
- Sending of an invitation link to the selected participants
- Evaluations performed by selected participants, on the Wevalgo web platform
- Participants connect to Wevalgo web site thanks to the link sent by the service manager
- Participants answer on-line
- The service manager can follow up the answers progress status
- Results available at the end of evaluations on the Wevalgo website
* The service manager is the person who purchased the service.
Recommended participants for an evaluation
For the evaluation we recommend the following participants:
- Research, Development or Engineering top management team
- A few project managers
- A few technical / scientific area managers
- A selection of a few people outside of Research, Development or Engineering : sales and marketing, manufacturing manager...
- In case of several geographical sites, a selection of each site managers, enabling to compare the results from the different sites
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Gain multi-level analysis on several axis that can be explored in varied depths and dimensions through a user friendly results menu. A few samples of the results report are shown below
Results by category
These results give the top level overview of evaluated practices maturity
Results by organisational dimension
Compare performance across your own, relevant and entirely customisable organisational dimensions. For example by geographical locations, departments, hierarchical levels or any other you see fit. Zoom in to breakdowns by category, subcategory and/or question
Results by evaluator and category
You can see detailed results to better understand the causes of your organisation performance
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