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## Your All-in-One Hub for Custom AI Tools and Innovation ##
Empowering every ADAC employee to work smarter, faster, and more creatively. From enhancing workflows to solving complex challenges, our suite of AI tools is designed specifically to support your daily tasks and long-term goals.

**What You’ll Find Here**

- AI-Driven Solutions
Access powerful tools tailored for ADAC'S unique needs, including automated reporting, predictive analysis, and design optimization.

- Streamlined Workflows
Simplify repetitive tasks and make data-driven decisions effortlessly, freeing up your time to focus on innovation and impact.

- Collaboration & Learning
Share insights and learn new ways to integrate AI into your projects with resources and training available at your fingertips.

- Sustainability & Innovation
Leverage AI to further ADAC's mission of sustainable engineering, driving meaningful progress in every aspect of our work.

**Key Features**

- Project Assistance: Automate routine calculations, generate design iterations, and uncover actionable insights.
- Data Analytics: Advanced tools for extracting insights from complex datasets, specific to engineering and sustainability.
- Knowledge Hub: Access training materials, FAQs, and guides to help you get the most from these tools.
- Collaborative AI Tools: Foster teamwork with tools designed for sharing ideas and automating group workflows.

**Your AI Workspace Awaits**

Getting started is easy:
1) Browse our AI tools catalog for solutions tailored to your team or role.
2) Explore tutorials and guides for seamless adoption.
3) Join our growing community of innovators driving ADAC into the future.

Let’s make every day more productive and impactful—together with ADAC AI Workspace.


Questions / Feedback / Feature Addition:
ai@adacautomotive.com

Welcome to ADAC AI Workspace

AIOS Wiki

## The Ambient Innovation Operating System
Decentralized innovation—AI-guided framework empowering everyone to drive, manage, and scale ideas across your company.

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### **Thesis**
Defines the strategic focus of the company by identifying target markets, core competencies, and areas of opportunity. Establishes the foundation for innovation by setting clear boundaries for where to operate and why.

### **Discovery**
A systematic approach to uncovering insights at the intersection of market trends and business strategy. Uses environmental analysis, core beliefs, and structured research to generate high-probability innovation opportunities.

### **Delivery**
Transforms insights into tangible innovation projects using a structured pipeline. Progresses through four key phases: definition, ideation, exploration, and development, ensuring concepts are validated before full-scale execution.

### **Portfolio**
Manages and balances innovation efforts by structuring projects into core, adjacent, and transformational categories. Provides visibility into the health of the innovation pipeline and ensures alignment with long-term business objectives.

### **Measure & Adapt**
Uses innovation accounting to track progress with leading indicators rather than traditional lagging financial metrics. Ensures continuous improvement through iterative learning and strategic adjustments.

### **Integration with the Innovation Engine**
AIOS works alongside the Innovation Engine to ensure a structured approach to innovation. The Product Thesis is created first and then imported into the Innovation Engine to drive discovery, validation, and execution.

Product Thesis Wiki

## The Product Thesis
A structured framework that defines the foundation of an innovation. It aligns customers, market needs, product differentiation, and future direction, ensuring strategic clarity and execution focus.


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### **Customers / Markets**
Defines the target market and customer base. Establishes where the company will operate and identifies **customer concentration and purchasing influencers.

### **Market Needs**
Determines the key problems being solved and why the company is unique in addressing them. Identifies market gaps, competitive differentiation, and areas where the company does not operate.

### **Product / Solution**
Clarifies what makes the product unique and outlines **the primary point of differentiation. Defines core competencies and how they enable the product to succeed.

### **Future Direction**
Anticipates market evolution and emerging trends. Establishes how customer needs will change and how core competencies must adapt to remain competitive.

### **Strategic Execution**
Each component builds upon the next to ensure alignment with the Ambient Innovation Operating System (AIOS)**. Once completed, the Product Thesis is imported into the Innovation Engine** to guide discovery and execution.

Innovation Engine Wiki

## The Ambient Innovation Engine
A divergent to convergent framework that enables the discovery of unique insights.  Aligns product needs to market momentum and strategy, each step builds on the next.




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### PEST Analysis & Mega Trend:
Wide lens view of where the world is headed in several key dimensions:  POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL, LEGAL.  Used to establish mega-trends and align the following tools. 

### Core Beliefs:
What you believe will happen to direct product discovery. A trend is ambiguous, a Core Belief is directional and discrete. "Autonomous Cars" is a trend,  "We believe the driver will become the passenger" is a Core Belief.

### Research Themes:
Areas of interest based on market momentum where discovery efforts can be focused to increase innovation probability. 

### Innovators DNA 5 Skills: 
The 5 constituent components of almost every major innovation: QUESTIONING, OBSERVING, NETWORKING, EXPERIMENTING, ASSOCIATING.  By focusing on these behaviors, insights lead to innovative ideas.

### Discovery Matrix:
The intersection of current market trends and key technologies allowing the discovery of unique insights.

### Emerging Technology Matrix:
Identification of new technologies / startups and how they are relevant to your product or company. 

Workshop Wiki

## The Workshop Toolkit
Assists in workshop preparation by building "How Might We" statements and suggesting key activities / tools specific to your needs.



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### *1. "How Might We" Statement Creator:*

Creates five "How Might We" statements based on your product's user, the problem they are experiencing and what the desired outcome should be. 

### *2. Immersion Session Assistant*

Will identify key areas to research and activities to perform based on your "How Might We" statement. Goal of Immersion is to create a common understanding around the problem domain and empathize with users. 


### *3.  Expansion Session Assistant*

Identifies adjacent areas to research to populate the Expansion step of your workshop. Goal of Expansion is to explore beyond your current product domain to gain inspiration and insights.

### *4.  Synthesis Session Assistant*

Identifies specific brainstorming or create tools to assist in the Synthesis step of your workshop. Goal of synthesis is to connect Immersion and Expansion steps to create novel insights based on the "How Might We" statement.

### *5.  Distillation Assistant*

Identifies methods and tools to assist in the Distillation step of your workshop. Goal of Distillation is narrow concepts and ideas based on criteria that is important to your end goals.



Research Wiki

## The Research & Creativity Toolkit
Assists in preparing for a create session or workshop.  Below is a description of each tool and how to extract the most value possible.



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### *1. Pain Point & Persona Generator:*

Helps idenfity a specific problem or frustration that users experience while interacting with a product or service. Creates a detailed, semi-fictional representation of a target user, created based on research and data about real customers.

### *2. Tech Scout Assistant*

This tool helps identify and evaluate emerging technologies that can provide a competitive advantage or solve specific business challenges. This process is used to stay ahead of industry trends, innovate product offerings, and integrate new technologies that improve performance or efficiency.

### *3.  SCAMPER Method Guide*

Uses a creativity technique that encourage innovation by prompting users to think about a product or idea through seven action-oriented questions: Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, Eliminate, and Reverse. It is used to generate new ideas, improve existing products, or find creative solutions to problems by exploring different perspectives.

### 4. JTBD Assistant*
Uses the Jobs-to-be-Done framework to uncover the functional, emotional, and social tasks that users want to accomplish. By pinpointing these core drivers, it helps create more targeted, impactful product solutions that directly address real user needs.

General

Research

Innovation & Strategy

Education

Workshop Planning

Sales

AI Workspace

Use the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. method to as a catalyst for new ideas!

SCAMPER Method

Continuously build, measure, and learn from minimal viable products, ensuring that they are creating products customers actually want.

The Lean Startup

Assist in systematically reducing uncertainty, rapidly testing assumptions, and iteratively refining their product or strategy to discover successful growth paths.

The Innovator's Method

Cultivate and leverage key discovery skills—associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting—to foster innovation within your organization.

The Innovator's DNA

Recognize and respond effectively to disruptive technologies and shifting market conditions before established competitors do.

The Innovator's Dilemma

Identify key pain points and develop a persona based on your demographic and product.

Pain Points & Persona

Define a How Might We statement to align product teams to discover new innovations via create session or ideation workshop.  Step 1 in the Spark Workshop process.

1. How Might We...

This tool will assist you in finding new and emerging technologies based on your market, industry or product.

Tech Scout

Identifies methods and tools to assist in the Distillation step of your workshop. Goal of Distillation is narrow concepts and ideas based on criteria that is important to your end goals.

5. Distillation

Identifies key areas to research and activities to perform based on your How Might We statement. Goal of Immersion is to create a common understanding around the problem domain and empathize with users. 

2. Immersion

Identifies specific brainstorming or create tools to assist in the Synthesis step of your workshop. Goal of synthesis is to connect Immersion and Expansion steps to create novel insights based on the HMW statement.

4. Synthesis

Identifies adjacent areas to research to populate the Expansion step of your workshop. Goal of Expansion is to explore beyond your current product domain to gain inspiration and insights.

3. Expansion

Define target customers, identify their needs, build an MVP, and iterate toward achieving product-market fit through a structured, lean process.

The Lean Product Playbook

OpenAI's Latest Model with Advanced Reasoning

ChatGPT o3-mini

Deep Seek V3

Discovery tool to idenfity insights based on your company or product.

Innovation Engine V2.5 FORM

Applying the Jobs to be Done framework from Tony Ulwick

JTBD Assistant

Guide the creation of a company specific one page strategic plan.

Scaling Up Strategy Engine

Apply the SPIN selling technique to improve your sales conversion rate.

SPIN Selling Assistant

Assistant to help understand the KPMG Automotive Executive Survey from 2013 to 2024.

KPMG Auto Executive Survey

An AI tool to assist ADAC employees in understanding the company's core capabilities, strategies, mission, and vision.