Objective
The aim of the LSD project is to target a large number of SME interested in raising their competitiveness through an improvement of their development process. Rather than a specific focused subject, methodology, or technology, LSD aims at disseminating what is best perceived as complement need from the target audience. The action will also address companies only marginally involved in the IT business, but who seek in the IT sector, usually the most advanced, for an example on how to improve their development process.
The ultimate objective of LSD remains the implementation of a solid network of local experts, not yet in the software domain, rather in that of the support of local SME. The language, when not jargon, spoken by software experts, in fact evolves so fast, according to the rate typical of the IT sector, that the gap between the software industry and its potential customers, is growing dangerously and too often suppliers and customers needs diverge.
As a side, intermediate objective, LSD aims at growing the right skills for a prototype disseminator that will better guarantee for an effective penetration of the IT culture in any industrial sector, so to finally increase the demand for a better quality software and trigger the expected virtuous loop.
ACTIONS
LSD does not focus on a specific IT related subject. Rather the action will start with the large spread of a questionnaire aimed at gathering the most common needs shared by the target audience.
It is expected to distribute this initial light questionnaire to about 1000 companies, and to receive it back from at least the 30% of the enquired companies.
The outcome of the questionnaire will then be exploited to filter out the material currently available in different electronic libraries (e.g. VASIE). Such a material, suitably translated (for sake of a better understanding in Italy) and integrated by other case studies will be distributed back to the above companies.
The only support adopted for this contact is a 3.5" diskette containing the customised information and a mini-browser to allow an easier navigation on it. This with the clear intent of training the target audience to the use of a not yet widely adopted way of exchanging information.
In fact, it is not unusual that even SME operating in the IT sector, at least in the Liguria and Mersey regions, are not familiar yet with emerging communication technology.
A local WEB site will gather the totality of the information borrowed by different sources and the case studies already developed by the partners. A set of modem will be set up to allow a free access to the site for those companies, the majority, who do not have access to internet yet.
The Web site will contribute and benefit from a larger exchange of similar experiences at European scale.
Trained mentors will tight the contact with a subset of the initial companies and provide direct assistance to those strongly committed in improving their software development process.
EXPECTED IMPACT
The expected impact from this action are multiple.
The growth of a local SPI culture supported by a new generation of mentors, with a constant eye to the SPI world, while the foot steadily drived on the SME play ground.
The local library is supposed to grow and become part of a large network of local libraries especially useful to derive ad hoc and well proven case study to implement, in a near future, a sort of reuse of SPI so to reduce, when not avoid, the need for an Improvement Experiment.
To foster the switch between the rare-at-workshop meeting and the continuous-at-work virtual-meeting.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
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16124 Genova
Italy
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