Optimizing Data Migration Part 1: Define and Support Your Team
Data migration is complicated. Part one of this series covers tips for building a team and empowering them to get the job done.
Free to Choose: Mass Customization for Modern Manufacturers
Mass customization is a growing trend for manufacturers, but requires a modern twist to execute correctly. Innovative companies are finding ways to achieve personalization and production efficiency in their manufacturing processes. To understand how, we need to first look back.
Between the Gates Between the Gates, Vol. 1: Opportunity Proposal Development
A well implemented gate review process allows leadership to evaluate projects from a business perspective at critical junctures, leaving day-to-day project execution to an accountable project team. So why are so many of these same companies falling short of their innovation goals?
The Front End of Innovation: Not So “Fuzzy” Anymore
Over the years, capabilities around the front end of innovation (FEI) have evolved significantly. So what is still preventing organizations from delivering results? Take a holistic look into your innovation processes, systems, capabilities and results at the front end. It's the only way to deliver the business and innovation results you expect to achieve.
High Tech Troubles
R&D effectiveness of high tech companies is less than 50%. What is the trouble with innovation in high tech?
New Bill Attacks Patent Trolls: What Does it Mean for You?
Fake finger in your chili? A new act introduced in congress is designed to help product designers and manufacturers save time, money and energy spent fending off frivolous lawsuits. Here's how you should prepare.
Webcast Recording: Design to Value: Deliver Bigger, Faster, Value-Based Innovations
Best-of-breed companies use a Design to Value approach to drive game-changing innovation. In this webcast recording, Bill Poston and Reed Shelger share a client case study of a company that transformed its early phase product development process to successfully bring more breakthrough innovations to market.
Video: IP-Enabled Innovation, Part 1
Intellectual property (IP) is a key driver of growth, providing the foundation for product innovation and development. Join Joe Dury and Jerry Freeman as they discuss practical approaches companies can use to understand, manage, protect and leverage IP portfolios by developing an IP strategy that supports the business strategy.
Four Reasons to Take a Rapid Prototyping Approach to Your PLM Implementation
Many companies view PLM implementations the same old way they’ve viewed enterprise system implementations (like ERP) for years. As a result, they tend to follow the same old waterfall implementation approach. Alternatively, an agile approach leads to significant benefits and more optimal PLM solutions. Here's how.
Webcast Recording: Developing the Right New Products for Customers and Your Business
Too often, new product development is driven by guesswork, assumptions or the loudest customer or senior staff member. As a result, many new products that make it to market don’t deliver the sales, customer value or business benefits they should. Check out this webcast recording to learn how you can leverage leading practices to make sound product investment decisions.
Panel Discussion at UT Dallas: Delivering Value Through Managed Innovation
Innovation is increasingly becoming the top strategic initiative for many leading organizations. While widely touted as essential for growth, innovation can also be difficult to manage and measure on a consistent basis. On March 22, panelists will examine how attendees can overcome these challenges through a managed innovation process - without stifling innovative spirit.
The America Invents Act: Three IP Management Capabilities You Need
Leading companies strategically manage intellectual property (IP) and use these assets to generate significant revenue streams. But the rules in the US for protecting your IP are about to change. Now more than ever, companies need to critically access their IP processes and strategy, because the America Invents Act is coming.
