"With the confinement of the first half of the year, innovation projects have fallen behind", is an observation heard from agri-food managers in recent weeks.
It is not easy to carry all your files under your arm without forgetting anything at the office and to communicate with your teams at a distance: few agri-food companies were organised for teleworking...
Despite this, some were able to continue to work as a team on product development projects thanks to their collaborative tools.
“At the R&D level, the team is split up: some on site and some teleworking. We have access to all our data and our formulation tool We have access to all our data and our formulation tool allows us to automatically calculate the cost price, labelling information, etc. R&D continues to work in a quasi-normal way, and national brand product development projects are progressing well. R&D manager of a ready-made meal company.
As in this case, tools that allow communication between departments around products can be useful. Of course, IT is not everything, but it helps...
Teleworking: collaborative tools to boost product innovation
Setting up a collaborative platform can help solve two important challenges in a teleworking context: facilitating access to each other's workspace and maintaining team cohesion on innovation projects.
Firstly, organising the product activity in a centralised product database allows employees to access all the information they need, complete the product data and make it available to other departments.
Secondly, collaborating through a project management tool can also be very useful for streamlining product processes and reducing delays. Each contributor has a clear view of the project, the deadlines and the tasks they have to do as they progress. As for managers, they have a global view of the portfolio of projects in progress and can monitor progress.
"The Project Management module allows all teams, and everyone, to be involved in a product development or launch."Data manager of a company specialising in nutrition.
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