ETO vs CTO

Product configuration typically covers how products are architected, maturing, changed, and structured for optimum reuse and economies of scale and scope. It is core to manufacturing organizations as they define their product portfolio, ...

Business Change: the Stormtrooper, the Ninja and the Superhero

Effective business change relies on communication clarity, empathy and continuous strategic alignment; full stop. There are numerous ways to convey messages, including various communication types (verbal, written, visual, non-verbal), co...

Driving PLM Implementations Towards Successful User Acceptance Testing

Delivering new PLM solutions implies series of solution testing, verification and validation, covering functional and non-functional requirements, from storyboard-based test cases to detailed methods, technical interfaces, data migration...

17 Key Considerations When Evaluating PLM Solutions

PLM vendors range from mainstream to niche editors serving multiple to specific industries, addressing more or less business capability scope. The so-called mainstream PLM vendors, or “mindshare leaders” as CIMdata refer to them, inc...

PLM Implementations: Leveraging Industry and Platform Best Practices

PLM so-called ‘best practices’ are perhaps one of the best keep secrets, a.k.a. some sort of myths as some like to call them. Following best practices assumes that they exist in the first place… Creating or busting myths can be tri...

Business Development: Will SaaS Offerings Change the PLM Implementation Services Sale?

PLM product software and implementation services come hand-in-hand: acquiring new digital tools, improving new process and operations, rationalizing and integrating enterprise architecture imply a number of implementation services—incl...