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US 8,620,702 B2Granted
Method and system for research and development management in an enterprise
AssigneeNSPIRD, Inc.
InventorSandeep Mehta
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Abstract
A method and system for capturing research decision flow in a Research and Development (R&D) activity are provided. The method includes defining an objective of the R&D activity and determining one or more requirements for fulfilling the objective of the R&D activity. Further, the method includes identifying a set of risks associated with failure to satisfy the one or more requirements. Furthermore, the method also includes developing a task plan to satisfy the one or more requirements and mitigate one or more risks of the set of risks. Furthermore, the method also includes linking the objective, the one or more requirements, the set of risks and the task plan, to generate a linked information record.
Claims25
A method for capturing research decision flow in Research and Development (R&D) of a new product or technology, the method comprising:
- defining or modifying and capturing an objective of the R&D of the new product or technology in a linked information record;
- determining or modifying and capturing one or more requirements for fulfilling the objective of the new product or technology in the dynamically linked information record;
- identifying or modifying and capturing a set of risks of failing to fulfill one or more requirements of the new product or technology in the dynamically linked information record;
- developing or modifying and capturing in the dynamically linked information record a task plan to perform at least one of;
- satisfying the one or more requirements;
- and
- mitigating one or more risks of the set of risks;
- and
- generating the linked information record in a computer system operatively connected to a storage device or arrangement of storage devices configured to capture the research decision flow.
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A method for managing Research and Development (R&D) of a new product or technology in an enterprise, the method comprising:
- defining an objective of each R&D of a new product or technology;
- determining one or more requirements for fulfilling the objective of the new product or technology;
- identifying a set of risks of failing to satisfy the one or more requirements;
- and
- developing a task plan to perform at least one of:
- satisfying the one or more requirements;
- and
- mitigating one or more risks of the set of risks;
- and
- dynamically linking and capturing the objective, the one or more requirements, the set of risks and the task plan from data flow, to generate a linked information record (LIR) in a computer system operatively connected to a storage device or arrangement of devices configured to capture the data flow;
- updating the LIR if needed;
- linking other LIR's if needed;
- performing the method asynchronously.
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A system for managing Research and Development (R&D) of a new product or technology in an enterprise, the enterprise comprising one or more divisions, the one or more divisions comprising one or more members, the system comprising:
- a knowledge capture module, operatively connected to a computer system, and configured to store data and further configured to:
- capture research decision flow in the R&D of the new product or technology by:
- receiving an objective of each R&D of the new product or technology, wherein the objective is input by the one or more members;
- receiving one or more requirements for fulfilling the objective of each R&D of the new product or technology, wherein the one or more requirements are determined by the one or more members;
- receiving a set of risks identified to be of failing to satisfy the one or more requirements, wherein the set of risks is identified by the one or more members;
- and
- receiving a task plan, wherein the task plan is developed to perform at least one of:
- satisfying the one or more requirements;
- and
- mitigating one or more risks of the set of risks, wherein the task plan is defined by the one or more members;
- and
- capture a set of task information associated with one or more tasks performed by the one or more members, wherein the one or more tasks are related to the R&D of the new product or technology;
- a linked information module, operatively connected to the knowledge capture module, configured to dynamically link the objective, the one or more requirements, the set of risks, the task plan and the set of task information related to each R&D of the new product or technology;
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- an access module, operatively connected to the knowledge capture module and the linked information module, for providing access to the linked information module to the one or more members, wherein the one or more members can alter the information in the linked information module by inputting or modifying any of the data stored in the knowledge capture module.
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An article, comprising:
- one or more non-transitory processor-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising the steps of:
- defining or modifying an objective of the R&D activity;
- identifying or modifying one or more requirements for fulfilling the objective of the R&D activity;
- identifying or modifying a set of risks of failing to satisfy the one or more requirements;
- developing or modifying a task plan to perform at least one of;
- satisfying the one or more requirements;
- and
- mitigating one or more risks of the set of risks;
- and
- dynamically linking the objective, the one or more requirements, the set of risks and the task plan, to generate a linked information record.
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An article, comprising:
- one or more non-transitory processor-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising the steps of:
- capturing research decision flow in the R&D of new product of technology, wherein capturing comprises:
- inputting an objective of each R&D new product or technology;
- inputting one or more requirements, wherein the one or more requirements are determined for fulfilling the objective of each R&D of new product or technology;
- inputting a set of risks, wherein the set of risks are identified to be of failing to satisfy the one or more requirements;
- and
- inputting a task plan, wherein the task plan is developed to perform at least one of:
- satisfying the one or more requirements;
- and mitigating one or more risks of the set of risks;
- capturing a set of task information associated with one or more tasks performed by the one or more members, wherein the one or more tasks are related to each R&D of product or technology;
- dynamically linking the inputted objective, the one or more requirements, the set of risks, the task plan and the set of task information related to each R&D of new product or technology to generate a linked information database in a linked information module for the R&D activities;
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- providing access to the linked information module to the one or more members.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.