Photo credit: Oblivion movie Patrick Lencioni argues in his book The Advantage that “being smart is only half the equation in a successful organisation“. The other half of the equation, the one that is largely neglected, is about being h...
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The number one challenge of manufacturing is getting ‘the right product, at the right time, at the right price‘. Competitive advantage used to come from automation and more recently digitalisation, but this has now become the norm with t...
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Developing and launching a new product require creativity, collaboration and accuracy, but also discipline and rigor. New Product Introduction (NPI) frameworks cover business case for a new product concept or idea to a market reality, ty...
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Products are developed (designed and engineered), manufactured and managed throughout their lifecycle through a collaborative approach across a combination of functions (people, departments, organizations), processes and IT tools. Every...
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions are like the ‘central nervous system‘ of the organization, providing the ‘sensory‘ input to management – so that they understand what is happening with their finances, employees, suppliers and...
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The determination of the basic long-term goals and objectives of an enterprise, and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary for those goals. (Chandler, 1962) 2 – 5 year roadmap… not a plan for next q...
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Marketing can contribute directly to improved performance and strategic success. Organizations define their marketing strategies based on the attractiveness of their industry, their target market segments, their customers relationships, ...
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Organizations generally respond to the environment through control and feedback loops using a combination of strategic control (strategy formulation, planning, risk management), and management control (strategy implementation, people, ac...
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Business-driven Project Management Offices (PMOs) charged with enabling or delivering successful transformational projects and strategic programs can make the difference between thriving organizations and those that fail to survive. PMOs...
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PLM (Product Life-cycle Management) is a popular strategy to deliver improved business performance and achieve competitive advantage. In broad terms, PLM is about getting access to the right information needed to support process executio...
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