Portfolio Management for Platform Companies

As you already know, maximizing long-term profits for your company requires you to manage your portfolio of products with skill and finesse. But what if your product portfolio is based on a platform? ...
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Six Best Practices for Lifecycle Management of Product Architecture Configuration Data

To achieve maximum efficiency in the sales-to-delivery process, automation is a key component, with one-touch configuration as the ultimate goal. However, many companies need help with creating, docum...
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Is There a Conflict Between Model-Based Systems Engineering and Modularization?

Recently I received an interesting question from one of my colleagues within Modular Management. A customer within the automotive industry was exploring Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) for thei...
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Do You Have the Right Tools for Managing Your Products and Product Platforms?

To stay competitive in today’s business climate, industrial companies are increasingly turning to digital tools to help them manage their products and portfolio with a strategic and data-driven approa...
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What is the Value of Streamlining your Product Architecture Data Management?

Managing information to enable and drive operations has become a critical ability in today’s ever-faster and more complex business world. Increasingly a worn buzzword, the term “digitalization” has em...
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Software Modularity

Modular programming has been around since the 60s and is a foundation of any good software architecture. Across many industries that were once hardware-dominated, software architecture is surfacing as...
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What is Cost of Complexity? - And How to Calculate it

Cost of complexity is a term often used to describe the costs that are caused by introducing new product platforms and products, as well as managing the variety of products produced. Many different pr...
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Accelerate Agility, Flexibility and Efficiency with Modular Design

Does your Product Design Methodology Support your Company Strategy? Most companies today are operating in multiple market segments and regions where customers demand unique products customized to thei...
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