"In 2016, dentists from all over the world have shared with us an impressive number of 41 new product & solution ideas!"
Yanik Tardy, Vice President Research and Development
In our quest to continuously provide better, safer, faster solutions to our customers, it is essential for us to maintain a close contact with the external inventors.
For this, we have implemented a new process to collect, analyze and communicate around the ideas which will be shared with us in the future.
You will then be contactedwithin 30 days by the relevant Platform Leader, who will then evaluate and dispatch the information to the PDRC Committee, where the Go/ No-Go decision will be taken. And when we say 30 days, know that this is the maximum indeed, our average time for response last year being of 15 days.
As you’d probably expect, we cannot invest in the development of every new idea we receive. Thorough analysis are made before the decision is taken. Consequently, we advise you to stay objective and neutral when you collect and share with us an innovative idea, not to generate negative feelings in case we do not proceed with the development.
But don’t censor either please. Last year an idea was approved for further development, so this year, this idea may well be yours!
So what do you need to do when you hear a new development idea? Easy: