It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and most businesses are looking for the edge they need to get past the competition. As many find out the hard way, you need more going on than a lot of Facebook likes in order to start generating more profits and reducing the daily costs of operations. What can your company do in order to create better, sustainable management practices? Here are three tips.
Tags: PLM, PLM Technology
Is your st
artup business doomed to fail? Statistics say yes. According to Forbes and Bloomberg, eight out of 10 new businesses go under within 18 months or less. The silver lining, perhaps, is that entrepreneurs make the same -- avoidable -- mistakes. The odds may be stacked against you, but there are some ways you can fight back and come out on top.
Tags: PLM, PLM Consulting, PLM Results, plm solution, PLM system, PLM Strategy
It's important to constantly re-evaluate your business to see what can be improved for profit longevity and future growth. "Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation," Czech writer Milan Kundera once said. It's true that marketing and innovation are the heart of what makes a business relevant to consumers, and therefore successful. How can you continue to innovate your company? Here are three possible solutions.
Tags: PLM, product lifecycle management
The reality of the business world means that companies have to invest in the future of their products as much as they invest in their various marketing efforts. After all, what good is a product to potential consumers who don't know why they'd need it? But in order to get your goods into the hands of these customers, you have to first ensure they're being manufactured at highest level of quality they can be. This is where product lifecycle management can play a huge role.
What are product lifecycle management systems?
Think of your company as Santa's workshop, consistently pumping out toys to bring cheer to children all over the world. At some point in the process, there's likely an elf who goes around ensuring quality control and making note of any products that simply aren't up to the high standards of the Santa Claus brand. This is what a PLM consultant can do for you. By recording specific data for a product to reduce its development and launch time, it leaves the workshop and lands under the tree at a much quicker rate.
Why do I need outside PLM tools to help me improve my product?
Remember back to your high school days, if you can. Say you spent weeks crafting the best English essay you could, comparing Arthur Miller's The Crucible to McCarthyism and the Red Scare. After starting at it for so long, your eyes essentially stop working, and you're more likely to skim over glaring mistakes. A PLM consultant can be an outside editor for you, helping your company keep your products user-friendly and safe, which can, as a result, heavily reduce liability risks.
What does the timetable look like for PLM systems?
You're probably a business of great ideas, as every good business should be. But where most companies run into problems is turning those ideas into viable, tangible and marketable products. This is where PLM consultants can help cut down the time it takes for ideas to become realities -- by as much as 70%. Additionally, you might have huge ideas but a tiny budget. PLM tools can also help reduce product implementation costs by up to 65%.
What does the future hold for PLM strategies?
Projections from TechNavio market research show the product lifecycle management industry growing at a 9.5% rate every year. That's good news for both PLM consultants and the companies they're in business with. Today, it's simply not enough to have a high-quality product -- it's barely enough to market it online and in print media. Consumers tend to reward innovation in both ideas and the delivery of those ideas, so get in touch with a local PLM consultant if you want to find your reward.
What are product lifecycle management systems?
Think of your company as Santa's workshop, consistently pumping out toys to bring cheer to children all over the world. At some point in the process, there's likely an elf who goes around ensuring quality control and making note of any products that simply aren't up to the high standards of the Santa Claus brand. This is what a PLM consultant can do for you. By recording specific data for a product to reduce its development and launch time, it leaves the workshop and lands under the tree at a much quicker rate.
Why do I need outside PLM tools to help me improve my product?
Remember back to your high school days, if you can. Say you spent weeks crafting the best English essay you could, comparing Arthur Miller's The Crucible to McCarthyism and the Red Scare. After starting at it for so long, your eyes essentially stop working, and you're more likely to skim over glaring mistakes. A PLM consultant can be an outside editor for you, helping your company keep your products user-friendly and safe, which can, as a result, heavily reduce liability risks.
What does the timetable look like for PLM systems?
You're probably a business of great ideas, as every good business should be. But where most companies run into problems is turning those ideas into viable, tangible and marketable products. This is where PLM consultants can help cut down the time it takes for ideas to become realities -- by as much as 70%. Additionally, you might have huge ideas but a tiny budget. PLM tools can also help reduce product implementation costs by up to 65%.
What does the future hold for PLM strategies?
Projections from TechNavio market research show the product lifecycle management industry growing at a 9.5% rate every year. That's good news for both PLM consultants and the companies they're in business with. Today, it's simply not enough to have a high-quality product -- it's barely enough to market it online and in print media. Consumers tend to reward innovation in both ideas and the delivery of those ideas, so get in touch with a local PLM consultant if you want to find your reward.
Tags: PLM, product lifecycle management
Integware will once again be a sponsor of 3DEXPERIENCE 2013. And, we have a couple of questions for you:
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Did you take advantage of the free downloads offered from Integware during 2012? If not, we have collected all of the best for your quick and convenient consumption. Take advantage of these while they are still available and be sure to stay subscribed for many 2013 downloads to come!
Tags: PLM, PLM Governance, Quality Management System, QMS, PLM system
Fort Collins, CO., August 8, 2012 – Integware, a leading provider of PLM services and solutions for regulated industries today announced that it has achieved Gold Partner status in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). By attaining Gold Level membership, Oracle has recognized Integware for its commitment to establish Oracle related knowledge in delivering solutions that satisfy good quality practices (GxPs) in compliance with worldwide regulatory standards and for uniquely addressing the challenges of joint customers who want to effectively manufacture their products.
Tags: GxP, PLM, Oracle, Partnerships
PLM is not a new concept. It has expanded well beyond the industries where it started. A question that we at Integware continue to hear from most companies, and in particular the visionaries within companies new to product lifecycle management, is “how do I show the business value of product lifecycle management?”
Tags: PLM, PLM ROI, PLM Investment, Life Sciences, PLM implementation, product lifecycle management, QMS, PLM system, PLM business value, PLM justification
I’ve had the opportunity to manage a large number of projects over the years from very large to very small and I have often found that the main challenges related to successful enterprise solution delivery are usually not technical. Yes technical obstacles will exist, will need to be overcome and engineering tradeoffs made. But in my experience the major roadblocks to enterprise implementations stem from improper governance, issues related to management of change (by that I mean organizational acceptance and understanding of value) and strategic investment shifts.
Tags: PLM, Integware, Life Sciences PLM, PLM Governance, Life Sciences, PLM implementation, Change Control, PLM system
