"Organization"

5 Organizational Indicators You’re Late With Defining Your PLM Strategy

5 Organizational Indicators You’re Late With Defining Your PLM Strategy

Manufacturing companies are facing multiple operational and strategic challenges in the current business environment. Post-COVID supply chain and labor shortage, growing economic instability, geopolitical tensions, growing complexity of products, and regulation demands. Cost pressure and competition are also here. So, manufacturing companies are actively looking at how to find their…

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Why PLM platform need to support inefficient organizational rituals?

Why PLM platform need to support inefficient organizational rituals?

Change management and PLM implementations are hard. You can check some of my earlier blogs to catch up on the topic.  – PLM implementation and organizational change and PLM and death spiral of cultural change. I also recommend you to check Jos Voksuil’s articles – Our brain blocks PLM acceptance and PLM and…

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The optimal org size is shrinking. Will manufacturing follow?

The optimal org size is shrinking. Will manufacturing follow?

Traditional manufacturing companies are associated with large manufacturing facilities, manufacturing equipment and significant initial investment to take business off the ground. It is still true in many aspects. At the same time, manufacturing is changing. It becomes smaller, more agile and global. In addition to that, changes in IP ownership…

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PLM Implementations Challenges and 3 Organizational Lenses

PLM Implementations Challenges and 3 Organizational Lenses

It is not unusual to hear people speaking about PLM implementation and changes that need to be done in the organization. Very often, PLM vendors or implementers are calling this process business transformation, which is literally supposed to make a change in everything that related to product design, engineering, manufacturing,…

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Why PLM should not think about ownership?

Why PLM should not think about ownership?

Enterprise software business is complicated. It often comes with questions of system responsibilities and ownerships. IT usually holds primarily responsibility for cross company software stack. At the same time, divisions and departments often try to influence IT and make their own decision related to what software to use independently. One…

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PLM and freedom in business

PLM and freedom in business

If you think about PDM and PLM, you will discover a lot of “controlling” functions. Examples are easy. You need to control documents, revisions, bill of materials, changes. Later, you need to manage and control processes. We’ve been living this type of environments for many years. Today I want to…

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Hyper-Social Organization for PLM Dummies

Hyper-Social Organization for PLM Dummies

Today, I had an interesting experience in my life. I had a chance to attend Dassault System Enovia Collaborative Innovation Forum. Be-careful, before you expose yourself to the following links. You will be influenced by a hyper-socially explosion… Ready? Navigate your browser to the following link. This is a conference…

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Collaboration Trends or Why I Stopped Using Google Wave?

Collaboration Trends or Why I Stopped Using Google Wave?

We tend to use word “collaboration” very often in Product Lifecycle Management and related fields. Collaborative Design, Collaboration Product Data Management, Collaborative… I want to discuss how I see the world of collaboration can probably change in the future. The following four trends are my take on what will happen…

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Can we scale PLM down?

Originally, PLM was born to provide solution for big enterprise customers. Aerospace, Defense, Automotive… these are original roots of today PLM kings. But, since we are moving forward many companies started to investigate in possibility to take PLM ideas to different domains, industries as well as apply it to be…

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How many Lifecycles do we need?

Yesterday, two separate article got my attention and brought me to think about Lifecycle. Alternatively, even more, about number of systems claims different lifecycle support. Jim’s Brown thought about QLM Quality Lifecycle Management and TEC article “What keeps EAM/CMMS away from PLM“. Why I choose these two is because they…

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