Enabling Ag Tech and innovation for family farms

Olives are among the world’s most treasured delicacies. For a company that grows and harvests the California olive crop, helping family farmers develop their own ranches and convert previously unusable acreage into olive orchards is an ongoing priority.

The company takes a modern approach to agricultural technology. Its community of farmers prioritize the land and natural resources. But without a unified view and efficient process for new product development, the company was falling behind competitively. The company needed to be first to market with their innovative new products and expand into new markets and food product sectors.

After choosing Sopheon, the company seized an opportunity to transform its NPD processes and operationalize new tools for better collaboration and decision-making.
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The needs

  • Speed time to market
  • Improve NPD process and execution
  • Streamline document and template access

The challenges

  • No single view of all work related to NPD activities
  • Ad hoc NPD processes
  • Consistently behind schedule on projects
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How Sopheon helped

The company uses Accolade® to manage 100 percent of the company’s innovation projects. It also uses Accolade to manage artwork approvals. Sopheon helped the company set up the proper Stage-Gate® system for its project management needs and implemented new storage protocols in Accolade, using smart templates, P&L and other key documents to create a single source of truth and transparency.

Sopheon took special care to help the company design an Accolade implementation that was ideally suited to the way it does business. In addition to configuring standardized processes for NPD, Sopheon helped the company incorporate its own language and branding into templates and deliverables. This helped the company make the process “theirs” while still simplifying NPD activities.

Working together with the company, Sopheon helped design and implement:

  • A process for better visibility to portfolio, project and progress reporting
  • Digitalized planning and operational execution processes to enhance growth
  • Simplified and easier-to-manage gate meetings, with better visibility to portfolios

What our experts say

“The primary goal of this customer was to get all their innovation projects in one place so they can make more informed decisions about which projects are the best to bring forward in a way that scales with their growing business needs. We were able to accomplish this goal."
Curtis Foster

Solution Architect, Sopheon

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