The first action of the consortium as a team was to share a common understanding and vision of the project objectives. The two objectives were: 1- to identify all the users and external stakeholders of such a new process, and 2- to start imagining users’ stories where actual consumers would require INEDIT services.
WP2 has allowed SUPSI to better define the INEDIT stakeholders’ map and initiate recruitments and interviews of external potential stakeholders made by all consortium partners.
These two tasks had the responsibility to understand the mapping of all the technologies envisaged for any step of the DIT process and for the different use-cases, and design the relevant services, based on interactions with use-case leaders, to demonstrate in the project.
In parallel, UL identifying the theoretical underpinnings of the DIT approach and describing a detailed generic process. To raise awareness of the general public, training materials have been developed by CRIT and tested.
While WP2 focuses on organisational specifications, WP3 starts exploring technologies through technological watch and feasibility tests on different technologies (scanning from mobile devices, VR for creativity and design, generative design…), start mapping technologies with the appropriate processes, and organise preliminary tests with users. Once the WP2 deliverables are ready, specific meetings are organised between WP2 and WP3 partners responsible for integration, to share the DIT vision and understand needs in terms of technologies to used and platform to be deployed.
WP4 starts to collect needs and requirements from the partners of the consortium to model the ideal OMD framework and publish a generic database, to be the common basis of each demonstrator, and a specific process description of each physical demonstrator, validated by each partner responsible of a demonstration (From the beginning of the project, we realised that different definitions were used for the same words and we agreed, within WP4 activities, to develop a glossary that was published on the INEDIT website (
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The technical specification of the integrated platform starts in Jan 2021, based on the WP2, WP3 and WP4 inputs already available. An opportunity to organise training on INEDIT process and pilot testing with students from the Ecole Supérieure du Bois (Nantes, FRANCE) mid-March 2021 convinces us to accelerate on the integration of the scanning module and creativity tool together (with versions already available at this stage).
WP5 has identified platforms with similar ideas and compared business strategies to anticipate the possible business models for the INEDIT process. Internal and external workshops have been organised to collect ideas and define the perceived value and unique selling point for such a service.
