Change Roadmap: Managing the Comms Plan

Implementing change is never easy; it requires a holistic view across business, technical and people aspects for the change in scope. A roadmap is required to inform all stakeholders about the steps and key milestones to implement the ch...

Overcoming Barriers to Change to Avoid Getting Lost in Transformation

Digital transformation is the new constant, no doubt about it: everyone talks about it, everyone recognizes the need to gain or retain competitive advantage, everyone wants to leverage value from new technologies, new requirements, new p...

Towards Integrated Configuration Change Management (CMII)

Configuration change management is the control of a product definition throughout the lifecycle of the product. It is an integral part of the design and development process for products and processes. Traditional change management (CM) f...

Replace Where Used: PLM’s Achilles Heel?

Product development requires an eco-system of inter-dependent capabilities and complementary functions to bring teams together around a product creation and industrialisation platform. The so-called platform contribute to converting new ...

More with Less: Getting More from Existing Operations

The world of Manufacturing has moved from 1) craft manufacturing, 2) mass production, to 3) modern Manufacturing – which replaced the mass production paradigm with a combination of: Flexible specialization – leveraging open innovation an...

Overcoming Change Challenges Facing the Manufacturing Industry

Change is becoming a way of life across the manufacturing industry. Even very traditional sectors can no longer afford to stay still. The stimuli are both internal and external.  1) Change typically comes from outside Change is often imp...