EXPERIMENTATION-AS-A-SERVICE (EaaS) is our service to test and evaluate new ideas or approaches propelled by Enablers. Short sprints of experimentation at tactical level provides quick assessment of potential enablers and the opportunity to learn quickly. When something works, it can be iterated and scaled up to a wider deployment. When it doesn’t work, it “failed fast” and the lessons learned can be incorporated into future project iterations and save time and resources that would have been invested in a traditional large-scale deployment.
EaaS offers participants the opportunity to learn, not only from their own successes and failures, but also from the aggregated experiences of other people, as they experiment and grow their solutions.
Experimentation-as-a-Service enables users to use experiments to accelerate innovation by providing a rigorous testing process for verifying and testing new products and technologies.
In FutureGroup, our Experiment-as-a-Service provides the following functional benefits:
- Reduce uncertainty by testing and evaluating a wide range of capabilities using our Technology Enabler Evaluation methodology.
- Avoid “False Starts” in buying premature large-scale production of new systems. Through our process, we help clients to avoid buying large quantities of a supposedly promising system too early during a period of transformational change in capabilities.
- Avoid “Dead Ends”. Capabilities that appear promising, or even revolutionary, sometimes fail to live up to expectations. In this case, the challenge of those leading the effort is not to avoid buying them too early, it is to avoid buying them at all.
- Assessment of acquisition risk and to support decision making
- Verify attainment of technical performance specifications and objectives
- Evaluate the operational effectiveness and suitability of a system to obtain a realistic estimate of its overall employability.
- Strengthening the employment concept of the enablers by providing new insights from the experiment.
- Discovery. Through the process of experiment, we may discover new insights and/or disprove previous assumptions that will contribute to technology development and/or application.
