The M.I.R.S. project has enabled Latteria Soresina to innovate its organizational system, optimizing processes in line with the company's strategy.
Latteria Sorresina
Cefriel
Latteria Soresina is one of Italy’s leading dairy cooperatives, specializing in milk and cheese production and operating in the agri-food sector.
Through the M.I.R.S. project, Latteria Soresina wanted to review its innovation and development system across all stages of its organization, including the contribution of people and their approach to innovation, an activity that can be divided into two macro-groups:
Development of creativity, i.e., all activities related to the generation of ideas, the development of new products, or the innovation of existing ones. Creativity is also conceived as the updating of procedures and skills of individual employees, coordinated with the company’s vision and strategy.
Process optimization understood as the set of activities related to process innovation, review, and innovation in the organization of its system, in the executive dynamics, information coordinated with the vision and strategy outlined.
MADE 4.0 has set up and launched a process to review its product innovation and development system using a methodology called Innovation Decision Accelerator, which consists of three phases:
Mapping of the AS IS innovation process with the aim of identifying the formal and informal steps of the innovation phase, defining the evaluation and monitoring criteria, identifying the roles currently involved in the decision-making process and, finally, evaluating the methods and tools used for internal communications.
Design of a new innovation process with the aim of identifying and selecting new external sources of information to be integrated with existing ones, new criteria for evaluating the most appropriate initiatives, and drafting a report on the TO BE process with the formalization of the phases, activities, roles, and interfaces with other processes and representation of its positioning within the organizational structure.
Setting up a structured roadmap for introducing the evolutionary elements identified according to a change management plan.
Digital Transformation
Roadmap 4.0
Strategy 4.0
Use consistent elements to structure the description of initiatives related to the introduction of a new product, and identify a model that describes the necessary skills.
Enrich and formalize the elements supporting the selection and monitoring of product and process innovation initiatives (KPIs and competition analysis).
Communicate relevant information about the process and ongoing initiatives to the entire organization to encourage internal involvement.
Identification of a pilot project in which to test the changes made to the innovation process.
Onboarding of the people involved and shared planning of support for the execution of product and process innovation activities together with company representatives.
Training of those involved in the new innovation process in order to provide all the elements necessary for understanding the approach, methods, tools, and impact.
