Foundry

Prototyping and Test Marketing

Smart Services has established a Services Innovation Foundry in Sydney and Brisbane comprising physical and virtual spaces dedicated to fast-prototyping and testing of new services concepts while protecting participants’ brands. This concept is focused on reducing the time from proof of concept to a deployed product in the market by allowing regular and fast testing of R&D outcomes against a relevant test market.

The Foundry is an essential component in the path to the adoption of Smart Services innovations by our industry participants and other commercial, industrial and government organisations. The Foundry supports the activities of a dynamic group of associated researchers, students and industry participant staff with infrastructure in the form of software, networks and computational facilities; provide researchers and students an opportunity to work on industry projects; and industry a forum for recruiting talent to their organisations.

Foundry Purpose

• Develop pre-commercial demonstrators, proofs-of-concept, pilots and prototypes to meet expressed participant needs for on-line and mobile service innovations
• Dynamically test, conduct in-house and field trials, adapt and improve these trial-services together with the interested participants
• Transition the resulting services to one or more participants to be further developed to become production services.
• Showcase the innovations developed by the CRC and its capabilities to enhance online and mobile service provision.
• Accelerate participant interaction to facilitate service innovation, particularly industry-to-industry and industry-to-research interaction.
• Develop skills and provide repository services for tools and methodologies developed by Smart Services and provided to the Foundry by participants, and develop and promote effective collaborative work practices within the CRC.