Retail Digital Innovation: 5 Stages of Adoption
Take these five steps to achieve value and adoption from disruption in the retail, footwear and apparel industry.
Closing the Product Innovation Loop with the Voice of the Customer
Despite years of trying, retail design and development leaders still create merchandise that never gets offered to a consumer, price it incorrectly and/or produce it in inappropriate quantities. Fortunately, Voice of Customer (VOC) programs have rapidly advanced to the point where they very effectively address these challenges.
Top Six Things about Retail PLM Transformation Part 5: PLM is Not ERP
The differences between ERP and PLM are substantial. Understand the differences to maximize your investment.
Top Six Things about Retail PLM Transformation Part 4: PLM Business Cases are Multi-Dimensional
It's difficult to develop a strong quantitative and qualitative case for PLM. Here are our tips to help project sponsors build a persuasive, multi-dimensional justification for investment.
Business Process Transformation and PLM, Part 2: Three Ways to Maximize Your Investment
Struggling to reap the full benefits of PLM? Here are our three top tips to help retailers view PLM as a business transformation and maximize the potential value.
Business Process Transformation and PLM, Part 1: Three Signs of Misalignment
When implementing PLM, retailers and brands should first develop a transformation strategy that addresses people, processes, and tools, then optimize the business processes for product development
Achieving Unified Product Development and Commercial Launch
Many healthcare product companies today struggle to drive effective collaboration across functions in product development and launch. If marketing and R&D can’t work together internally, how can we expect them to effectively collaborate with external partners in a more advanced and open development process?
Fuel Innovation with Disciplined Value Capture
This paper discusses the linkage of value capture to product innovation and how to ensure the full profit potential is achieved for each incremental improvement or enhancement in a product.