Effectively product configuration is essential to achieve mass-customisation and equally to satisfy ever more demanding customer requirements. Mass-customisation aims at satisfying the specific needs of individual customers with mass-pro...
Conventional planning implies that organizations are largely predictable enterprises and that they are typically resistant to change. These are characteristics of linear systems; therefore, conventional planning ignores non-linear charac...
Broadly speaking, Computer Assisted Engineering (CAE) is the process of solving engineering problems through the use of sophisticated, interactive graphical software. It includes the series of disciplines which aim at digitally testing a...
Following on my earlier post on “3 KPIs to Assess the Success of Innovations“… It is critical to find the right balance between flexibility and control to allow future ideas to emerge and successful ones to be realised. Innovation system...
An innovation refers to doing something in a manner that was never done before, or ‘changing for better’. The level of innovation that is required in a given industry varies significantly. Innovations are means to adapt to the changi...
At its simplest program management can be defined as ‘a group of projects managed together for added benefits’. Both projects and programs can be seen as a vehicle for organizational learning. This post discusses guidelines on the purpos...
