(ITI Global: Milford, Ohio) – Hitachi Medical Corp. has received from its parent organization, Hitachi Ltd., the 2006 Innovation Award recognizing the most innovative product and process developed for the year. Hitachi Medical received the award for the multimodality console product line that will enable the company to deploy common capabilities across all medical imaging product lines. Each year Tokyo-based Hitachi Ltd. recognizes great achievements in technologies and products.

Rendell Hughes, ITI senior executive consultant explains: “Driven by ITI’s CPPD process the joint Hitachi Medical and ITI team deployed a systematic methodology to capture customer requirements that drive market growth, develop product targets, analyze and design software, deploy upfront integration and testing and validate the product with customers before the product is finished. Over a 36-month period, ITI’s team lead HMC in the transition from a C, Unix, single-developer based environment to a C++, C# and .Net based-development environment that supports a global concurrent development with outsourcing suppliers. HMC decreased its time-to-market by 60 percent with a significantly high level of quality as a result.

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