Making the value of technology clear
This episode of Tech-Clarity TV introduces the Tech-Clarity Sustainability Maturity Framework to help companies assess their current capabilities to design for environmental concerns and put plans in place to improve their processes. This is a critical capability for manufacturers given the tremendous number of demands facing their businesses today and the significant growth of requirements…
Jim Brown presents on this webcast sponsored by Oracle and Kalypso. The webcast introduces a new pre-configured PLM offering aimed at helping food and beverage companies better implement PLM. View a Replay of the Event
What I learned this week was that we could use a good, common PLM definition and scope, but we will not get one. The discussion (a lot of discussion in multiple forums, actually) came from my post SAP, Too Much or Too Little Credit for PLM Efforts and another called Who Will Disrupt Entrenched PLM Vendors?
What I learned this week … is that there are still some technical challenges that make implementing PLM challenging, but that is not what this post is about. The technical challenges include customization, data migration, and integration among others. See Oleg’s post on the “3 main factors of mainstream PLM adoption” for more detail on each of these, and his views on why these three factors impact the adoption rate of PLM. I accept Oleg’s premise on these factors (although we will likely continue to debate the relative priority of ERP integration) from a technical perspective. But I think any technical conversation about PLM implementation has to be complemented with a view on why PLM is really hard – you have to change the way people work in order to improve your product development performance and your product profitability.
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