Remote and Autonomous Ships

This innovation can cause some changes into the “paradigm” innovation regarding to what the organization does; for example, navigating the vessel without on board crew. But in the same time, the fact that there will not be crew on board the ships is influencing all upper mentioned innovation spaces to a greater or lesser extent.
If we are looking from shipbuilding side, this innovation can be related to all four types of 4Ps innovations: “product” innovation, “process” innovation, “position” innovation and “paradigm innovation”. Changes into the “product” innovation would be regarding to the new ship`s design, systems, and trials. The “process” innovation would refer to newbuilding`s delivery process which plays sufficient role into vessels building process, as the “position” innovation because the remote and autonomous ships will change the main context of services and products which the yards are offering. There may be not so much changes into “paradigm” innovation because yards will still be building ships but main difference will be what kind of vessel and in which way they are building them.
However this innovation project will bring a lot of changes in the future for shipping industry and people involved into maritime industry must be ready to deal and adopt with this transitions which may appear.
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