Are you connected? In the modern world, we use such a word very often. Our phones and computers are connected to WiFi or mobile networks. We are connected to the internet and to dozens and sometimes hundreds of different services. Our TVs are connected. Our cars are also very often…
Small and medium-sized organizations are very interesting. Their problems are very much similar to the problems of large companies, but their resources and organizational capabilities make the process of transformation much harder for them. Modern days digital transformation brings so many tools and technologies, but companies are failing to adopt…
Unless you lived under the rock for the last decade, you’ve heard about Knowledge Graphs. In a nutshell, a knowledge graph acquires and integrates information into an ontology and applies reasoning algorithms to derive knowledge. It uses information extracted from systems, subject matter experts, data links, and machine learning algorithms….
Earlier this week, I heard that the best PLM innovation is just listening to the customers. The situation with the user experience of enterprise software was completely different 15-20 years ago. Most business software development brands didn’t care much about user experience and customer behavior. These days, the situation is…
Moment PLM articles about the role, responsibilities, and desired skills of PLM architects caught my attention earlier this week. Check it out for Part 1 and Part 2. The article provides a great summary of what a company can expect from a person to lead PLM implementation from both businesses,…
If only I could see… The global supply chain was historically the place to be blamed for inefficiency and vulnerable to disruption. It is usually a place with the biggest amount of legacy systems or inefficient homegrown Excel spreadsheets. The supply chain information is prone to be fragmented and disconnected…
When a company starts thinking about PLM there is nothing more important than to wrap your head around the idea of PLM, why is it important, and how to make your steps into this process. The greatest PLM failures are coming from people that are unable to understand the idea…
Earlier this week, I was talking to one of my teenage sons about his homework. At one moment of time, I told him that he can save his research work in the file. He gave me such a look like you can expect usually from teenagers – you know, that…
There is a bad word in PLM jargon and it is “customizations”. For years, customization was considered as a bad thing. Started decades ago, when PDM and PLM systems were merely toolkits and you needed practically manually to adjust database tables and change system software code to adjust PDM or…
A single source of truth is the paradigm that sells PLM and many other systems. PDM and PLM providers used and continue to use this model as a fundamental thing when selling PLM vision, strategy, software, and technology. It is still a dominant model behind most PLM implementations in the…
