Community Forum – What new tools do your researchers use to do their jobs better & faster?
- Resource Type
- Survey (Community Forum)
- Publish Date
- 08/25/2017
- Author
- Innovation Research Interchange
- Topics
- Tools and Techniques, Employee Innovation
- Associated Event
- Publication
Arkema has an initiative called the “innovation toolbox” where we are tasked with identifying tools or other ways of working to improve our ability to analyze, collaborate, document and communicate. We believe that new tools are important way to help our researchers do their job faster/easier/better. For example, it could be new patent analysis software, a new electronic notebook platform, new analytical method, et cetera. We would like to hear which new research tools have helped you and would recommend for others to try.
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– Office 365 suite of tools: SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, Skype for Business 2. – SharePoint to exchange documents with external parties. 3. Internal Facebook-style communication system for posting questions, comments, events, links to resources on the web. 4. – Ansys – Catia – Labview – Azure – SAP – SharePoint – Lotus Notes 5. We are developing in-house tool 6. – SharePoint 7. We are in the process of implementing Stage-Gate methodology to help our researchers develop better value propositions for their projects and to focus resources on the most promising project to accelerate their commercialization. 8. We have used the SmartSheet collaboration tool with good success and we recently started using the M-Files tool for technical records. 9. We are just starting to use OneDrive for Business. It is a great way of having a team work on one document, all at the same time (like a technical report, project plan, monthly report) No more sequential editing and merging. Not sure its new, but it is working well for us! 10. – Lotus Notes databases and applications 11. – eNotebooks – Skype for Business – MS SharePoint – Internal innovation portal (customized) – Reaxys – SciFinder – Totalpatent 12. Microsoft 365 – Teams 13. Lux Research 14. Accolade by Sopheon for NPD process deliverables and Stage Gate. Microsoft OneDrive for file collaboration. Ansys for FEA. We try to use Yammer for collaboration, but not very effectively. SolidWorks for mechanical design. 15. – Yammer 16. – Skype for Business – SAP Jam 17. – SharePoint 18. – Net present value calculation 19. Most of our recent tools have been focused on collaboration and communication: |