The Southcoast Business Innovation Laboratory (SBIL) is a joint effort of the Advanced Technology Manufacturing Center (ATMC) and Business Innovation Research Center (BIRC) of UMass Dartmouth. SBIL is established to support business innovation in the Southcoast of Massachusetts in areas such as sustainable or next generation supply chain, industrial services and value chain optimization, advanced
metrics for business, sales processes, e-procurement and partnering. SBIL’s service to the Southcoast companies is based on introduction to best practices, introduction to Innovation model, creating process specific business model (using standard software), validating process and analyzing, value determination, ideation, creating model for future, laboratory test of the innovation model, validating the model and change as suggested, incorporate measures, procedures, standards and decision elements, re-test the model outputs with different scenarios, presenting innovated business practice, review and evaluate