A suggestion for improvement is a start. Then someone needs to prioritize it, take responsibility, and follow up on the results of the change. In our conversations with manufacturing companies, those very steps have come up repeatedly. That’s why we’re starting there as we develop Studio
When we first started talking about Studio, we outlined a broad vision for the management system of the future. That vision remains. But we also need to decide where to start.
To do that, we’ve spoken with manufacturing companies and people who work on improvements in their day-to-day operations. We’ve wanted to understand where the work comes to a halt and what kind of support is actually needed. A recurring theme is that the ideas are there. The challenge is taking them further.
A suggestion may have been logged without anyone deciding whether to implement it. A person in charge may have been assigned, but the next step is unclear. And even when a change has been implemented, the question remains: did it turn out as we had intended?
It is around this work that we are developing the Improvement Hub, our first step within Studio.
Studio began with a broad vision: to use new technology and AI to make management systems more useful and help companies grow. In the long term, we want to be able to identify patterns in improvements, deviations, and risks, and help organizations translate experiences into concrete actions.
That vision remains. But we need to start with a concrete need. In conversations with manufacturing companies, we’ve seen that ideas for improvement often exist. The challenge is to prioritize them, assign responsibility, and follow up on what happens. That’s why the Improvement Hub is the first part of Studio.
With the Improvement Hub, we aim to provide teams with comprehensive support to capture improvement suggestions, prioritize them together, assign responsibilities, and follow up on the results.
We’re initially targeting teams in small and medium-sized manufacturing companies.
But a system alone cannot create engagement, make decisions, or ensure that time is set aside for improvement efforts. That’s up to the people in the organization.
Our task is to develop a support system that helps them coordinate their efforts. And we’ll do that together with our first users.
Over the years with AM System Classic, we’ve learned that organizations need to be able to shape their own ways of working. Different teams have different responsibilities, decision-making processes, and needs. We’re bringing that experience with us to Studio.
At the same time, we want to give users a clearer starting point. In the Improvement Hub, our goal is to provide a pre-defined framework for improvement work, with the flexibility to adapt it as needed.
That’s the idea behind our Hubs: each Hub addresses a specific need, while all are built on a shared platform.
We’re starting with improvement work. Additional areas will emerge gradually.
AI features are not included in the first version of the Improvement Hub. Right now, the focus is on the improvement work itself and on understanding how the support works for the teams that will use it.
At the same time, our overarching AI vision is beginning to take a clearer shape. The basic idea is an intelligence that helps people advance in their work and connects information and workflows across systems.
We look forward to sharing more about this soon.
Classic is our established management system for documents, processes, and cases.
Studio is currently under development and is starting with a more narrowly defined use case through the Improvement Hub. It does not yet offer the breadth of functionality that Classic provides.
We’re building on the experience gained from Classic while developing a new way to get started with support for a specific task.
Classic and Studio are not replacements for one another. Classic remains our established management system, and Studio is a new offering that is evolving step by step, with Improvement Hub as its first component. Both products will continue to exist and be further developed, and our goal is for them to complement each other.