Cognition Cockpit™ — Requirements Management Software
Industry News
Study: Tetra Pak Improves Product Development Process with Cockpit
Tetra Pak, a world leader in food processing and packaging solutions, selected Cognition Cockpit when it decided to invest in a requirements management software system as part of an effort to improve its product creation process. “The new software helps us provide those involved in the product development process with complete and accurate requirements information,” said Hans Peter Karlelid, Global Expert Advisor at Tetra Pak. “Ensuring that everyone is working from the same requirements helps avoid costly mistakes in downstream processes with the result that we are able to reduce engineering costs and bring products to market faster.” Download the case study (pdf).
Cognition Corporation Partners with Synergio
Cognition Corporation is pleased to announce their new partnership with Netherlands based Synergio, a European distributor specializing in Requirements Engineering. Together with Synergio, Cognition Corporation is expanding their European distribution of the Cockpit to Scandinavia, Germany, and the Benelux region of Europe. Read the full press release here.
Cognition Expands Product Development Lifeline™ Program
Cognition Corporation is expanding its successful Product Development Lifeline™ Program for medical devices to include small businesses as well as larger corporations. For a single, fixed price, the Lifeline Program creates requirements, test, and risk management documents, traces, and reports to meet and exceed industry standards for medical devices. Read the full press release here.
Cognition Corporation Joins with SC&C Partner
Cognition Corporation and SC&C Partner in Czech Republic team up to deliver advanced product development and lean solutions including six sigma, requirements management, PLM, and cost management throughout Eastern Europe. Read the full press release here.
New Study on Online Collaboration in Product Development
Xerox and Rochester Institute of Technology Master of Science in Product Development Program participants James Guentner, Matthew Hoffmann, and Seth Merritt have completed a Capstone paper entitled “Identifying success factors for inter-firm online collaboration within the new product development process.” Cognition Corporation was interviewed as part of this study.
This excellent paper discusses the challenges faced by technology companies as they include social media and online collaboration in their product development process. From the abstract:
Online collaboration and the success factors that enable its adoption within an extended partner new product development (NPD) team are not well understood. This has caused companies to underutilize social media within their NPD process according to the results of a systematic review of the existing literature. Can these tools be effectively used to improve the NPD process? What are the success factors for deploying and utilizing online collaboration tools for improved NPD? To answer these questions a qualitative repertory grid technique was used for research interviews to solicit antecedents, success factors and consequences from 16 social media industry experts, the results of which were coded into themes and subthemes. Hypotheses were developed that will answer the research question, “What do social media experts perceive as the factors for enabling successful B2B online collaboration?”
Click here to read/download their paper. The author’s contact information is in the paper so feel free to contact them directly.
Cognition Cockpit Reviewed by CPDA
Cognition Cockpit™ was reviewed by the highly regarded industry analyst Collaborative Product Development Associates. CPDA specializes in requirements management and product development tools. The report includes detailed interviews with Cognition Customers, including Motorola, Raytheon and Becton Dickinson.
CPDA’s CEO, Don Brown, was impressed by Cockpit’s new, modern approach to requirements management, especially noting its ease of use and completely web-based interface. Don characterized the product as a strategic tool for any company wrestling with complex Requirements Management while also needing to control the effects of dynamic requirements change and parameter variation.
For the details of benchmarks from customers including Becton Dickinson, Motorola and Raytheon, follow the link to the CPDA web site for access to the full report.
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