Professionals involved in innovation often claim to prefer agile rather than waterfall – which is synonym of bureaucracy and hindrance to creativity. There is a common perception that waterfall is about structure and sequencing logic, wh...
How Effective NPI and Product Platform Strategies Create Competitive Advantage
2015-12-13Digital, Engineering, Strategy, NPI, ROIDeveloping 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...
What is ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides a framework for organizing service management in an IT environment and incorporates processes such as configuration, change, capacity and release management. ITIL...
Smart, connected products are emerging everywhere nowadays as manufacturers and service providers embrace technologies, embedded systems connected to the cloud, social networks, analytics for processing large amounts of data, automation,...
Aerospace vs Automotive: Similarities and Differences, Potential Synergies
2015-11-21Aerospace, Automotive, Digital, NPIAerospace and automotive are two major manufacturing industries – also old industries born over a century ago; they have drastically evolved in the past 30 years in terms of product performance, leveraging high technologies and significa...
There is an old debate about Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise IT application landscape and how the ecosystem is architected: either based on one core ‘harmonized‘ or consolidated platform that is used across the relevan...