"In the KBM "Agile Product Development", we were able to discuss our own status quo across industries and gain numerous insights into best practices via the study. This approach was of major benefit to us."
Head of Project and Process Management Vaillant Group
The Complexity Management Academy is conducting the consortium benchmarking study "AI-driven Product Development" together with the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL) at RWTH Aachen University, thus continuing a series of successfully completed benchmarking projects of this kind. Our customers from industry appreciate our professional project management in addition to our in-depth technical and methodological expertise.
Successful consortium benchmarking studies of the past years
Digital Product Development (2022)
The study investigated which aspects of digital end-to-end product development in industry are addressed by established solutions and where challenges still exist. From detailed written questionnaires, which were answered by around 120 companies, success factors for the design of digitally integrated product development were identified. These are divided into the fields of digitalisation strategy, organisational responsibility, data basis and information provision.
Consortium partner
The consortium consisted of 9 companies from different sectors and of different sizes, with companies such as John Deere, Syntegon, Hettich, and many more.
Successful practice companies
Claas, 3M, Mosca, Vaillant Group, Wilo
Agile Product Development (2019)
The thematic focus of the benchmarking study "Agile Product Development" was to identify success factors for the agile development of physical products. Within the framework of this benchmarking study, systematic, generally applicable and targeted solution approaches for the application of agile methods in the product development of manufacturing companies were derived along the six central topics of the framework "Organization", "Methods" and "Tools", "Infrastructure", "Prototyping", "Process" and "Culture and Mindset".
Consortium partners
16 consortium partner, such as Bosch, Mahle, Swarovski, Schaeffler or Roche, from different industries and different company sizes formed the consortium.
Successful practice companies
Claas, ASML, Philips Healthcare, Trumpf, Continental
Past KBM studies
Agile Product Development
Industry 4.0 in R&D
Artificial intelligence in R&D
Market Intelligence
Success Factors in Product and Portfoliomanagement
Product Lifecycle Management
Digital Product Development
