SMEs how to avoid the B-side hardware technology risk?
Hardware design in accordance with the product management process will be divided into product lines and technology platforms line. Line technology platform research team has not yet fully mastered the technology platforms, through technical pre-research ways technology platform gradually rich sound. When sophisticated technology platform, technology application technology platform can be extended to the accumulation of product line. So each cycle, the establishment of a sustainable development path. However, limited human resources of SMEs, it is difficult to achieve technology platform and product platform lane parallel. In this scenario, the use of what kind of ways to try to avoid the technical risk?
Technical risk aversion may try to proceed from several aspects.
# 1, the establishment of a standardized module design approach
unified unit modular design, including software and hardware functional units modular unit modular design. Software and hardware are formed from different functional units. The product has been verified in practical functional unit, by establishing a unified interface mode, sharing module is formed. The new product design, as long as the associated functional unit can only be shared from the company access to the function block design. This avoids the consistency of design problems arise. With this module design approach that allows employees to quickly join the new package, and quickly set up the basic framework of the product, but also can reduce the risk of system design problems due to functional units. This requires companies to spend some input, to the whole sort out existing technology accumulation, unified use, unified interface, unified way of marking.
2, technical pre-research
when developing products technology solutions, the core key technical problems for analysis, whether the team has been able to control the problem. If the technical risks, peel off the first element of the development of product-related business, only to build technical difficulties related to the core demo. With this pre-research test demo, rapid assessment and analysis of the technical team whether public relations problem. At the same time be able to evaluate product performance to achieve what extent. Although the testing process will be set up demo takes a certain human and material resources, but rather than wait until the product implementation process only to find insurmountable problems much better. These preliminary validation work is very worthwhile, especially those with significant technical risk factors. If the assessment results reflect the team is not able to solve the technical points in the product cycle, then the team will adjust product strategy to develop early. Either change the technical program, or change the product specifications required, or the use of resources outside the company team to make up for the lack of current technology.
3, explore external resources
and external resources to follow include comparative aspects: outsourcing mature modules, external technical team, design outsourcing, resources, technology research universities, hiring technical staff to make up for the other team technical points, etc., the acquisition of external technical team. Product teams to take this chance to a variety of internal and external resources to achieve our goals. In addition to some very sophisticated technology lies in the very small number of foreign staff, the vast majority of technology can find in the market. With additional input costs, products can quickly resolve technical risks, costs can be received within a degree, to borrow external resources to promote the products shaping helpful.
SMEs have certain products business income, we need to strengthen the technology platform. Improve product advantages in technology, you can get a greater proportion of gross profit accumulated through technical superiority. Although the initial investment will occupy a lot of corporate funds in the long run the investment is worth it.