What’s The Big Deal about Data Migration?

Data migration refers to the movement of data from an old or legacy system to a new system (often linking to data quality in context of: “garbage in, garbage out“). It takes place during the transition from one solution to another, is ty...

Informed Decision Making: Turning Data into Business Insight

Decisions are made in context. They typically involve a problem definition, a decision maker and a feedback loop on action taken. The concept of ‘informed’ decisions is linked to (though distinctly different) the concept of ‘better’ deci...

Effective Supply Chain Collaboration: Why it Matters

Collaboration with partners, suppliers and customers has become a strategic imperative for companies in the networked world of business; there are company-centric and customer-centric views of collaboration. This also applies to the manu...

Productivity vs Throughput

Discussions about Engineering & Design (E&D) Return on Investment (RoI) among manufacturing industry executives often turn to engineering productivity. A far more important metric is perhaps engineering throughput combined with cycle tim...

Emotional Intelligence: The Key to Successful Change

In the current context of globalization, people and organizations must react and try to anticipate increasingly rapid change: People must plan for their own career development. Continuing Personal Development (CPD) is a ‘viral‘ process a...

Create Once, Use Many Times

Robust information and (meta-)data management is one of the core requirements for Engineering and Manufacturing functions to deliver new product developments and innovations with a solid data foundation. Managing effectively (or not) Bil...