Career Paths for PLM Professionals

A career path reflects a sequence of skills and experiences that leads to medium- and long-term goals, affecting the way that someone progresses, either in one job or a series of jobs. Following a “career path” presumes that there is...

Internal Marketing for PLM Transformation Initiatives

Transforming the business can require serious mobilization and investment in change programs. Communicating about the change internally with employees and with the relevant external stakeholders is an ongoing activity, typically driven t...

Assessing the Need for Enterprise Platform Customization

Enterprise digital platforms include PLM, ERP, MES, CRM and other solutions, none of which typically operate in isolation. Data flows across these platforms as business function collaborate throughout the product lifecycle, from introduc...

Acquiring PLM Talents: Attracting, Hiring and Onboarding Experts to Deliver Business Value

Talent acquisition is one key pillars of talent management referring to the recruitment and hiring process, up to onboarding new employees—an essential HR function to enable hiring managers in finding and selecting the right resources....

Developing PLM Talents: from Formal Certification to Learning by Doing

Developing PLM skills typically require resilience and a powerful dose of front-line experience due to the multi-disciplinary nature of such engagement. Organizations developing their PLM talents seek to combine a number of criteria whic...

How PLM Process Experts Contribute to Improving NPI

Every industrial manufacturer has their New Product Introduction process framework to control how product are developed: from design to engineering, manufacturing and transition to service or maintenance repair and overhaul. NPI / NPD pr...