Elektrobit (Bittium) use case

Overview of EB Accelerate Building Culture of Innovation…

Jari Partanen, Mari Matinlassi EB 2th Feb.2015 for 4th Feb 2015 ITEA Review

Elektrobit

Elektrobit Corporation

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• Founded in 1985

• Elektrobit Corporation:

• Wireless and Automotive segments

• Total net sales in 2013: 199,3 MEUR

• Total amount of employees 1.600

• Presence in 8 countries on 3 continents

• Listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki

• Elektrobit Wireless Segment:

• Telecom

• Special Devices

• Connectivity Solutions

• Defense

• Net Sales in 2013: 61,2 MEUR

• 500 employees

Elektrobit Wireless

EB Wireless Business Areas

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Radio

LTE/4G

TD-SCDMA

WLAN

2G/3G

EB Product Portfolio

Special Radios

TD-LTE

LTE-A

S-band

BT/BTLE

L-band

Connectivity Solutions

Telecom Special Devices

Defense

R&D Services and Consultation

White Label Products

-EB Tough Mobile -EB Special Device Platform

-3G & LTE base station development -R&D services -Technology consulting

-EB IoT Device Platform -Embedded connectivity solutions

-Tactical Communications -Signals Intelligence

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1st Review, Brussels, Belgium, 04.02.2015 Accelerate ITEA2 12014 Elektrobit position in Accelerate

• Tool perspective

– In Accelerate, Jira will be used for ideation and transparency. EB

will discover the potential to use other accelaration tools

(consortium + market)

• Acceleration problem to be solved for customers

– Demo/experiment approach utilized for customer demo’s to

accelerate the feedback of the proposed solution or product of the

customer

• The acceleration problem for EB itself

– Build an acceleration culture on an EB-wide scale

What is New thru Accelerate ?

Barrier for Innovation is Generally Quite High !!!

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Existing, Roughly 300 issues / year

Existing, Roughly 70 patents during last 10 yrs.

New, has not been as element before

New, has not been as element before as such

Earlier only invention process part was in place

Ideas

Innovations

How to Accelerate – Case EB

Accelerate Approach

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Incremental Innovation

Radical Innovation

Screen Scale Deploy Idea

Other Market

Know-How

Vs.

“DevOps Approach”

Scaling of

Innovation

Development

Delivery

Overview of Idea Handling

Idea Handling with Ideas Tool

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• Ideas are entered to Ideas Tool at JIRA

• Ideas are screened on regular basis (weekly) and divided into ‒ Business / Commercial

‒ Technological

‒ Process or Way of Working or

‒ Inventions

• Ideas are further commented by e.g. business owners, technology experts or process owners

• Based on comments further processing is decided ‒ Everyone can also favour ideas by

voting

• Passed ideas will be handled according to the respective process ‒ These ideas will also be rewarded

IDEA Screening Further

Development

Lightweight Demo Concept

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Screening

Study

Results, Decisions,

Data

Idea

Demo

Business approval

Light Plan

Light demo sprint

Visualized idea

Actions

Introduction

Next steps

Team recommendation

Implement

EPP -1

No go Improve Plan

Go Ahead and Execute

Business

Experiences from the Approach / Status Dec 14´

• Visibility of ideas for the whole personnel important

• Management commitment a must

‒ 100 % of business management participated in processing of ideas (e.g. review of all business ideas)

‒ in addition 5 separate small workshops held for business reviews

• Focus in ideas important

‒ As example Collaborational Idea Competion was launched within whole EB Wireless and Automotive ideas (Total 143, ASW 107, WS 36) within 12 weeks

• Participation of the personnel important

• Experimental approach – Light weight demo concept under piloting to verify fast the idea potential

• Fast processing and handling needed

‒ 1st processing of the ideas every week Friday since April

‒ Lead time improvement of the ideas handling to be improved all the way

Experiences from the Ideas Way of Working

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IDEA

PROBLEM/ SOLUTION FIT

PRODUCT/ MARKET FIT

SCALING

FRAME

THE SOLUTION

FRAME

THE PROBLEM

FRAME

THE MARKET

FRAME

THE RESOURCES

Overview of Key Metrics (Based on SIRRIS Frame for Acceleration)

© Method; Sirris 2014

Ideas Collection with

JIRA 108 (+107)

# of people submitting ideas; 40 (8% of personnel) # of people participated in processing ideas; 22 teams + 7 Reviewers % of business management involved; 100%

# of ideas passed the process; 31 # of ideas in process; 31

KPIs

Cycle time to the 1st processing and screening; Every Friday,

Max 1 week

# of inventions/patents; 2 Inventions # of campaigns; 2

# of ideas to be in Light

Demo Method; 2

Light Demo Concept

Method and tools

Web cam As Demo tool

Idea Collection Tool and Method

Business Modeling Canvas

Tool

Business Modeling toolset (s) under

study

2015-2016

2014 ->

# of ideas selected for scaling after 1 campaign; 18 ideas

(36)

Tools, methods,

dashboards

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As Tool

Initial draft release: • Results based on the

current state-of-the-art and practice

• Basic set of results • Early validation experiences

Work status and future expectations

Acceleration – Going Forward…

1st release: Initial draft 2nd release:

Proposal 3rd release: Final

2014 2015

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Q1: WS Ideas Start Late feb. 2014 ASW & Wireless Co-operation

Q2: Reviews and Expert network start 1st ideas implemented

Q3: Review of the Progress Tools and methods, 1st iteration ”Hackathon” concepting

Q4: Demo of Defence idea, starting with Special devices, looking for Connectivity Solution based on ideas

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