Product Co-Creation

Objective

The Co-Creation service is a tool thought to help all companies solving challenges or proposing solutions, through a process of collaboration in an open innovation approach. It’s directed at all the stakeholders that want to interact giving and receiving feedbacks, ideas, or suggestions on specific topics and challenges.
The tool gives all users that have ideas and creativity, the possibility to insert their ideas to solve the challenges, to answer surveys or identify companies’ problems which needs to be solved.

Methodology

The tool aims at creating a table where the collaboration among different actors is encouraged through a social media approach.
The users can create challenges describing their needs, or ideas, to propose innovations and solutions. They can interact among each other by proposing ideas to challenges, adding tags to mark the contents, giving feedbacks through surveys, comments, like and dislikes.

Outputs

Definition of new and innovative products and processes which can be virtually validated by the community of stakeholders.
Engagement of the community of stakeholders.
Identification of many potential solutions to challenge proposers issues.
Identification of potential usages of an idea proposer solution.
Possibility to interact with other stakeholder which can also be from outside the company.
Possibility to receive feedbacks with different level of detail.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, DT-ICT-07-2018-2019 “Digital Manufacturing Platforms for Connected Smart Factories” topic, under Grant Agreement ID 873111