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What Is The Future of PLM Strategic Presentations?

What Is The Future of PLM Strategic Presentations?
Oleg
Oleg
25 August, 2010 | 2 min for reading

Have you had a chance to see any PLM strategic presentation? I’m sure you did. You can find easy few of them by Google “PLM Strategy“. How many times you’ve been looking on PLM strategic presentation and saying – hm, this is not exactly what I’m looking for. I was reading a USA Today article Graphic novel replaces business school text book yesterday. This is my favorite passage from this article:

“Textbooks are just plain boring,” said Short, who is a professor of management at Texas Tech University. He said that standard business textbooks use a lot of disconnected examples and irrelevant stock photos, and he wanted to create something that would be “more like a movie,” that would get the necessary points across while keeping students engaged.

PLM Presentations Boring?

A lot of PLM presentations are boring and can be predicted from the beginning. They contain a lot of pictures of products such as cars, planes, fashion and electronic to keep people eyes on it, but contain a little meaningful information. They are using complicated terminology that needs to be decoded and translated. Customer testimonials are also following strict and old fashioned way.

How To Engage with People?

The USA Today article made me think about a significant shift that needs to be made in the way we are presenting Product Lifecycle Management. I’d like to come with some ideas that can help to create a better PLM presentation:

1. Keep it short, focus on a single use case or benefit.
2. Use rich media – video, online slide presentation materials.
3. Interview customers and publish it.
4. Use comic video to explain what you are doing (Google is a master of such videos).

What is my conclusion? I think, what is important is to remember 7 seconds rule of attention. You need to keep person’s attention for the first 7 seconds. I think social media today provided a lot of examples how to do so. We need to learn how to use it. Just my thoughts…

Best, Oleg

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