From October 2007 to September 2009
Project Leader(s): Prof Elaine Martin
Staff: Prof Gary Montague
Contact: Prof Elaine Martin
Sponsors: EPSRC
Partners: Manchester University, Oxford University and York University. Companies involved AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson Mathey and Robinson Brothers.
Homepage: http://wwws.ncl.ac.uk/ceam/research/sysma/projects/satnav.htm
Using a decisional and complex systems perspective, the project will deliver to the UK process industries, a flexible and adaptive innovation, “SatNav” that can help technical teams and organisations navigate the complex business and technological terrain. This step change improvement in process and decision making will reduce lead-time and costs, whilst maintaining high levels of creativity and innovation. The project will integrate and support the introduction of new products to the markets, which will be underpinned by a multi-level process improvement strategy. This approach will help the UK process industries to competitively bridge the gap between an idea and reality. It will do this by helping them to follow the most parsimonious and effective path of decisions that the process could take, whilst ensuring that that path enables innovation, creativity and satisfies business drivers and constraints.
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Professor Elaine Martin OBE
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Professor Gary Montague
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