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Managing Process Improvement for PLM
Guest post by Jim Brown, founder and president of Tech-Clarity, an independent PLM analyst firm. Few would argue that process improvement is central to gaining value from PLM solutions. Buying new...
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Avoiding IT Catastrophe – McKinsey Study Reveals How
The failure of large IT projects is one of those stories that, unfortunately, never grows old. The media loves to showcase bad news while business and IT executives view with extreme skepticism every...
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Shortcuts to PLM Adoption? You’ll Pay More in the End
User adoption of new technology solutions like PLM is a key driver of the ultimate return on these significant corporate investments. Yet enterprise learning and adoption programs, so essential to...
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Auto Manufacturer Highlights Three Keys to PLM Adoption
What does it take to ensure successful adoption of PLM software within a global enterprise environment? Research suggests that high performing companies are much more likely to invest in a...
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Customized, Role-Based Learning in PLM Adoption
When an enterprise is rolling out new software, it’s doing more than just introducing new technology into the environment. It’s affecting the way people do their daily work, sometimes quite...
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Building a Foundation for PLM Success: Preparing for Change
How can organizations ensure that people accept the changes in their work flow that typically accompany the deployment of new enterprise software and solutions? Training is obviously important but one...
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Taming the PLM Beast: Five Steps to Effective Governance
Large-scale PLM initiatives typically involve so many stakeholders and changes across the enterprise that keeping program in line requires a substantial effort above and beyond the actual work of...
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Minimizing Risk with PLM Transformation: The Role of Executive Sponsors
Large-scale business change initiatives are inherently risky. Business literature is littered with failure stories: Companies overreach, technology doesn’t work as advertised, workers resist the new...
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Strategic PLM Implementation: Understanding the Value of Out-of-the-Box Software
Most companies that invest in major PLM programs want to minimize customization when deploying their new software. Customizing enterprise software like PLM is expensive, time consuming and often...
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Customer-Centric Manufacturing Right Approach for P&G
Manufacturers are working overtime to get closer to their customers. Amid the pressures of global competition, economic uncertainty, and rising customer demands, manufacturing leaders know well that...
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Governance vs. Leadership: You Need Both to Succeed
My colleague was nervous. He was kicking off a major initiative with an important new customer and program governance was a mess. The customer, a well-known retailer, had selected us to implement a new...
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How a Strategic, Big-Picture Approach to PLM Pays Off
Even with the best of intentions, it’s easy for organizations to lose sight of the big picture when embarking on a PLM program. Program and IT managers get bogged down in the weeds of tactical project...
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How to Boost Your Productivity with Process-Based Training
When you’re dealing with an entirely new way of working, how do you efficiently and effectively organize a training program so it doesn’t cause enormous downtime? That’s the challenge facing many...
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PLM Learning and Adoption: A Strategic Approach to End-User Acceptance
Most companies invest in PLM to improve important business metrics, such as time to market with new products, product quality, and product development cost. But they often struggle to achieve their...
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Achieving Faster Product Development with Integrated PLM
Getting new products to market faster is typically a top priority for manufacturing firms, and the companies that respond more quickly to the latest market trends and demands usually come out on top....
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PLM and Process Improvement: Building Bridges to Ensure Enterprise Value
When working to improve product lifecycle management, companies often struggle to gain full value from their initiatives because they fail to focus on cross-enterprise change. For example, companies...
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Designing for Reliability: Why a Closed-Loop Process Works Best
Product reliability goes a long way toward ensuring customer loyalty. When products fail we feel annoyed and inconvenienced – or worse. If failure results in injury or even loss of life, the response...
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Adding Review Cycles to Accelerate Product Development
It seems counterintuitive, but putting more review cycles in the development process can actually help get products to market faster. A large consumer products manufacturer shows why this can work....
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Succeeding with Software Adoption: The Devil is in the Details
Following a learning and adoption continuum is a proven way to achieve business goals faster and with less disruption when deploying PLM software. But when it comes to successfully pulling off this...
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Quality Lifecycle Management: Striking a Balance between Product Reliability...
When it comes to product design, companies must balance four competing goals: cost, time to market, feature set, and reliability. The key is to get the right mix and create the greatest customer...
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Chinese Manufacturers Use PLM to Drive Higher Value
It’s no secret that Chinese manufacturers are pushing hard to move beyond low-level commodity production and win with more innovative products and capabilities. Rising costs are one reason. As Aaron...
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Profiting from Service: Get the Data Right First
For manufacturers the world over, servicing products is no longer simply an obligation, it’s an essential contributor to customer loyalty and bottom-line success. Indeed, according to the 2013...
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Quality Lifecycle Management: 4 Steps to Success
You’ve secured buy-in that a Quality Lifecycle Management (QLM) process will help you strike the optimal balance between product reliability and design for lower costs over the product lifecycle. But...
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New eBook Highlights PLM Key Success Factors
If you’re following the new Strategy section of...
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How Top Innovators Close the Knowing-Doing Gap
Companies spend ridiculous amounts of time, resources and...
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