When embarking on a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) project, selecting the right vendor is critical. To ensure your PLM system meets your organization’s needs, it’s essential to ask the right questions. One size doesn’t fit all and the questioners for selecting PLM software can be quite different. I’ve been getting…
The LinkedIn post about upcoming roundtable and discussion with an interesting topic –Creating a Profession for PLM Practitioners triggered some interesting debates online. It brought me back to almost forgotten discussions about PLM definitions and, at the same time, reminded me my old article –How many people in the world…
Summer is here with a bit of relaxing August time. But we all know what is coming later – the end of Q3 and Q4 with the end-of-year sales rallies. I can see this time is usually filled with very high sales and implementation activities in PLM projects. Today, I…
It is 2023 and any manufacturing company in the world at a certain moment of its existence will ask a question about Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). It can come from a different perspective – the quality of the products, the complexity of data management, or regulatory requirements. But, as the…
PLM adoption is hard. The history of PLM projects start as engineering projects and, unfortunately, struggles with many aspects related to PLM adoption. It was the story of PLM years. The adoption of PLM systems and technologies leads to many confusing moments. PLM technology leaders traditionally came with a high…
My recent articles about PLM vs ERP exposed how deep is the division of data and power in organizations. Many years ago, one of my advisors said that you can only sell software to an enterprise organization that matched the name of the company budget lines. The debates about PLM…
PLM can be anything from business strategy to product and technology. To get companies to adopt PLM takes time and this is where I can see a lot of discussions and debates about complexity PLM. I will talk about complex vs simple PLM next time. Today I want to focus…
How to find a good idea? Many people have different answers on this question. My favorite James Altucher – the bestselling author, blogger, and podcaster says you need to come with 1000s bad ideas and train your idea muscle before the good idea will come to you. The common trend among…
Enterprise IT adoption cycle diagram made by Simon Wardley made me feel sad and funny at the same time. I found it one of the best visualizations of many situations I’ve been in the past when working on PLM sales and implementation situations. This is a brilliant reflection of technology adoption…
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,…
