Case Study: Mondelez

Background

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Mondelez International is a global leader in food and beverage, with well-known brands like Cadbury, Oreo, and many others.

In a typical year, Mondeléz conducts more than 6,500 product-related project activities. Using a Stage-Gate® approach, the company
identifies, defines, and plans the resources allocated to these projects.

However, without clear visibility of product strategy and insights, it made it challenging to accelerate consumer-centric growth.

Opportunity

In order to deliver products to market that exceed consumer expectations faster and more profitably, Mondelēz decided it could not simply automate its current innovation processes.

Mondelēz needed a single solution for managing its innovation portfolio, resources, demand planning, and project execution. It also needed to challenge its current processes quickly. Wellspring (formerly Sopheon) is helping to meet this challenge.

WELLSPRING'S

Approach

Wellspring (formerly Sopheon) worked with Mondelēz to deploy Accolade software rapidly, focusing on driving adoption across the global enterprise. With Wellspring, Mondelēz built the initial Accolade implementation in just nine weeks, followed by four weeks of testing and validation.

Building on the idea of creating a "single source of truth", Mondelēz and Wellspring addressed an immediate need: retiring outmoded processes and disconnected software solutions, then merging those functions into Accolade.

Result

With Accolade, Mondelēz International will have 100 percent global visibility to all new product initiatives in the portfolio, enabling the company to allocate resources and prioritize the highest-value products. Additionally, Mondelēz reports a 50% reduction in time preparing for gate meetings with Accolade. The global organization will now use a single source for information, product, project, and portfolio management, enabling greater collaboration and efficiencies across all product lines and business units around the globe.

100%

Global Visibility for All New Product Initiatives

50%

Reduction in Time Preparing for GateMeetings with Accolade

9 Wks

Initial Deployment of Accolade

6 Mths

Enterprise-wide Deployment

"The beauty of this Accolade implementation is that we really are creating one single source of truth, not only for having all our products, but also for managing our portfolio resources in the same location."

Andres Dias Alves da SilvaDirector Innovation I2M Mondelēz International

Accolade® Brings Sweet Simplicity to Innovation at Mondelez

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Opportunity

Approach

Result

Innovation Management