How to Manage Change in your Strategic Product Platforms?

Governance of your investment in a configurable product platform is a critical part in succeeding to reach the profit and other targets for the product architecture. In our earlier story, Governance a...
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The Financial Impact of  Modularization 

How to Successfully Realize Lower Costs and Increased Sales? The target with modularization is to meet three business objectives: Operational Excellence, Customer Intimacy and Product Leadership. When...
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Getting the Most out of Your Platforms Using a Maturity Model

Organizations looking to gain the advantage of economy of scale, while also augmenting the value for their customers, are increasingly turning to configurable platforms and products through modulariza...
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Simplicity + Variety = Product Portfolio Success

This is the age-old conundrum for manufacturers… How can you grow our top line with increased market variety and innovation while still controlling our costs? Organizations typically try two approache...
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3 steps Implementing Lean and Modularity

Minimize Waste Using Lean and Modular Product Architecture Minimizing waste is the focus of both lean and modularity. In many ways, they’re the perfect match to accelerate value creation.
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How to Improve Productivity in the Construction Industry?

Construction has a hard time to match the productivity of other industries Although there have been multiple phases of industrialization, these changes have had varying degrees of success. And despite...
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The Application of Futures Studies in Innovation Processes

During the past 5 months Lina Simme and Linda Eriksson from the master program in Design and Product Development at Linköping University conducted their master thesis together with us at Modular Manag...
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Examples of Product Configurators and the Importance of Guided Selling

INTRODUCTION In this post Alex Ginsburg, senior specialist with more than 25 years of experience in the field of modularization and configuration, will share his personal experience when going out on ...
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