Savings up to tens of million euros: DIMECC technology program speeded companies’ product development up to 250%

The four-year ICT program DIMECC Need for Speed (N4S) shortened significantly the cycle time of program participants. The product development of certain participants speeded up even 100-250% without loss of quality. This also meant increased delivery capacity and customer satisfaction. Thanks to the program, the total sum of yearly savings of six big DIMECC shareholders…

Open treasure chest was created in DIMECC’s technology program: Tools and guides for real-time software business are now for public use

ICT-program DIMECC Need for Speed (N4S) collected its results from four years of work on an open website. The site offers instructions and guidelines for software intensive companies, which are companies whose business is mainly based on software, how to start new business. In N4S program 40 leading software intensive companies of Finland and research…

Cookbook for the systematic experimentation published

Continuous experimentation Cookbook – An introduction to systematic experimentation for software-intensive businesses provides an introduction to continuous experimentation, which is a systematic way to continuously test your product or service value and whether your business strategy is working. An increasing number of companies are involved in building software-intensive products and services – hence the popular…

Cookbook for predicting the future prospects in software business published

A Cookbook for Predicting the Future – Introduction of Foresight Tools provides organizations an easy way to find suitable and appropriate foresight tools and methods. It is a practical handbook for conducting foresight activities in software business. The authors define foresight as a view forward or exploring alternatives for the future. The current global business…

Coordination Chaos Will Ruin Your Software Design

Software solutions often go awry. The underlying reason is not technology, but poor management. Partial optimisation as well as divide and conquer strategy, will lead to fragmentation of activities and inevitably to an increase in bureaucracy. Each employee is given strictly defined role descriptions, which are also narrow, because otherwise they cannot be defined with…

Era of Internet of Things needs new business models

Internet of Things (IoT) means that businesses make use of electronic information exchange and interaction increasingly. IoT makes business modelling more challenging but also more valuable. However, majority of current business models do not take account the interconnected nature of firms that evolve in the same innovation ecosystem. New business models suitable for future needs…

New Ecosystems Require Specialization and Internal Startups

Digile’s research programs IoT and N4S opened many new perspectives to the operation of a traditional device supplier such as Ericsson. This means an environment where creating, testing and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently and more reliably. According to an estimate by the Gartner research company, there will be as many as 25 billion…

Cookbook for Successful Internal Startups Published

Things have been difficult for businesses in Finland and many other countries – many businesses have had to start saving, cutting costs and laying people off. It is easy to get stuck in this cost-cutting mode when you should be looking forward to the future. Internal startups are a way of thinking forward and a…