Presentation of Suciu et al. at International conference on eLearning and Software for Education, April 24-25., 2015, Bucharest, Romania

1. ACCELERATION PLATFORM BASED ON
CLOUD COMPUTING AND VALIDATED
LEARNING FOR INNOVATION IN INDUSTRY
• George Suciu and Gyorgy Todoran
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology,
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
• Cristina Butca and Victor Suciu
R&D Department, Beia Consult International
Bucharest, Romania, 2015

2. Content
Short Biography
Introduction
State-of-the-art : Virtual Collaboration
Spaces
Proposed Cloud Acceleration Platform For
Innovation In Industry
Conclusions and Discussions
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3. Short Biography (1)
 Graduated from the Faculty of Electronics,
Telecommunications and Information Technology at
the University “Politehnica” of Bucharest (UPB),
Romania (www.upb.ro)
 MBA in Informatics Project Management from the
Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic
Informatics of the Academy of Economic Studies
Bucharest (www.ase.ro)
 Currently, Ph.D. Eng. Post-doc Researcher focused
on the field of big data, cloud communications, open
source, IPR and IoT/M2M
 Since 2008 IT&C Solutions Manager - R&D
Department, being employed starting 1998 at BEIA
Consult International, a research performing SME
(www.beiaro.eu)
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4. Short Biography (2)
 Projects – www.beiaro.eu / www.mobcomm.pub.ro
 FP7 (2 on-going)
 REDICT : Regional Economic Development by ICT
 eWALL : Electronic Wall for Active Long Living
 NMSDMON : Network Management System Development and Monitoring
 FAIR : Friendly Application for Interactive Receiver
 Cloud Consulting : Cloud-based Automation of ERP and CRM software for Small Businesses
 ACCELERATE: A Platform for the Acceleration of go-to market in the ICT industry
 H2020 (1 on-going)
 SWITCH: Software Workbench for Interactive, Time Critical and Highly self-adaptive Cloud applications (ICT-9)
 National (more than 10 past projects, 5 on-going)
 MobiWay: Mobility Beyond Individualism: an Integrated Platform for Intelligent Transportation Systems of Tomorrow
 EV-BAT: Redox battery with fast charging capacity as a main source of energy for electric autovehicles
 CarbaDetect: Imuno-biosensors for fast detection of carbamic pesticide residues (carbaryl, carbendazim) in horticultural products
 SARAT-IWSN : Scalable Radio Transceiver for Instrumental Wireless Sensor Networks
 COMM-CENTER : Developing of a “cloud communication center" by integrating a call/contact center platform with unified
communication technology, CRM system, “text-to-speech” and “automatic speech recognition” solutions in different languages
(including Romanian)
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5. Introduction (1)
 To successfully accelerate, companies need a new type of product development, the so
called validated learning process.
 We describe a cloud platform that will bring together several services and instruments
that the companies usually rely on in their go-to-market process.
 The main contribution of this presentation consists in the integration of several services
in the platform, such as:
 awareness creation services,
 trainings, seminars,
 online courses,
 coaching and mentoring services,
 software tools that support specific parts of the acceleration process,
 services that provide access to data needed to speed up go-to-market,
 services to look for partners,
 project management tools.
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6. Introduction (2)
 Validated learning - the practice of effectively measuring the accuracy of assumptions and
using the results of the validation to understand whether the assumption was correct and
if so, continue onto the next test.
 Standards identified:
 DMAIC – the main tool of Six Sigma projects and refers to learning cycles that are
based on information for improvement and stabilizing the processes and business
designs.
 KAIZEN - a continuous improvement activity of all functions and processes within an
organization, from the Japanese philosophy of continuous good change.
 Lean Startup - a method of developing business and products proposed shortening the
product development cycle by adopting a combination of experiments based on
assumptions of business and iterative product start up.

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7. VIRTUAL COLLABORATION SPACES (1)
1. Validated Learning
 the systematically search for matches between technology and market by validating the
mechanics of a business model;
 consists in iterating rapidly between experiments, data collection and informed
decision making;
 is defined as a process that is learned by applying a initial ideas and measured to
validate the effect;
 Typical steps in the validated learning process:
 specifying a target,
 specifying metrics that represent the objective,
 analysis of metrics and improvement;
 achievement of other tests.
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8. VIRTUAL COLLABORATION SPACES (2)
2. Learning cycle
 Are social learning platforms;
 A learning cycle will take a number of steps or phases, the latter being followed by first;
 There are several models of learning cycles, such as:
 Kurt Lewin;
 Kolb and Fry;
 Honey and Mumford;
 Alistair Smith.
 include a number of theories that suggest systematic differences in natural or usual
pattern of individuals for the acquisition and processing of information in learning
situations.
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9. PROPOSED CLOUD ACCELERATION PLATFORM FOR INNOVATION IN INDUSTRY (1)
 To acquire knowledge and qualified persons, ITC system developers rely heavily on
consultants, advisors and other providers of domain specific knowledge and can provide
training and coaching programs.
 The several services that will be integrated in the platform are:
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10.  Service to look for partners - a management service that lets the users to take a
hands-on approach to a wide range of activities related to getting support, building
projects and finding opportunities.
 Project management tools - a service that offer support for task management,
resource allocation, tracking, Gantt charts, and much more.
 Services that provide access to data needed to speed up go-to-market - search
based services.
 Awareness creation services - the most effective and least expensive channels for
online advertising and building a positive reputation.
 Software tools that support specific parts of the acceleration process provides a
scientific approach to creating and managing startups and get a desired product to
customers hands faster.
PROPOSED CLOUD ACCELERATION PLATFORM FOR INNOVATION IN INDUSTRY (2)
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11.  Mentoring service help the users to refine their business strategy, map out the
direction that their business should be taking and assist in setting goals for their
business to succeed.
 Seminars - meetings in which people can learn about a topic and are usually
interactive sessions where the participants engage in discussions about the delineated
topic.
 Online course - an electronic learning method.
 Coaching service - distinct from other forms of training because he focuses on the
method of learning.
 Trainings - organized activities aimed at imparting information and/or instructions to
improve the recipient's performance or to help him or her attain a required level of
knowledge or skill.
PROPOSED CLOUD ACCELERATION PLATFORM FOR INNOVATION IN INDUSTRY (3)
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12. Conclusions
 To successfully accelerate, companies need a new type of product development, the so
called validated learning process.
 Validated learning process systematically searches the fit between technology and market,
by validating the mechanics of a business model.
 In this presentation we describe the validated learning process and learning cycles.
 Learning cycles are social learning platforms.
 Diverse perspectives, ideas, interests and local knowledge are taken into account in order
to find alternative solutions that are optimal in comparison with established approaches.
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13. University “POLITEHNICA“ of Bucharest
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology
Any questions ?
george@beia.ro
The work has been funded by the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013 of the Ministry of
European Funds through the Financial Agreement POSDRU/159/1.5/S/134398.
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