Global manufacturers are in the midst of digital transformation and, over the last 30 years, have successfully digitized many processes from engineering to manufacturing, sales and service.
However, digital transformation challenges and opportunities still remain, one of which is the need for e ... Read more
In the next 40 years, the farmers of the world will have to grow more food than humanity has ever grown in the past thousand years. – Steffen Honold, Digital Product Manager CPQ, Global, AGCO
COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of digital solutions and the digital transformation of indu ... Read more
Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM) is an efficient and scalable solution for providing reliable, up-to-date product configuration information that can enhance engineering, manufacturing, sales and service solutions. But the real value of CLM is in providing a platform for cross-functional ... Read more
Providing a strong, effective customer experience has long been thought to apply only to B2C companies. Retail, online banking, travel services and real estate sites are just a few examples of the traditional business-to-consumer companies that were previously only thought of as needing to focu ... Read more
In the past, CIOs were seen as the guardians of servers, implementers of software and maintainers of systems.
Today, CIOs are increasingly becoming responsible for strategic initiatives, profitability and even new product development.
The traditional CIO with a tech-heavy background was not req ... Read more
Digital transformation has been a top priority for many companies and organizations over the last few years and has had a major impact on the role of CIOs. Given the technical nature of digital transformation, it is only natural that management and the board look to the CIO to lead the way. How ... Read more
In our recent whitepaper: “Accelerating Digital Transformation in Manufacturing with Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM)” [download here], we explored the impact that Industry 4.0 and new customer demands like customization are having on the manufacturing industry. New business models are ... Read more
Organizations that produce complex products have often struggled with how to make their processes more streamlined. Whether that is on the product design side, or the selling side, the number of possible product configurations creates complications when trying to scale.
But what happens when th ... Read more
The industry is full of terms like Engineer-to-Order and Mass Customization [1]. These used to only apply to consumer products, but within the past several years there has been a noticeable change in customer expectations. Every industry is subject to the expectation that a consumer can go to a ... Read more
Every business needs to keep growing by innovating or risk seeing their core markets shrink by 60% or more in three years due to rapid advances in digitization according to IDC. Digital technologies are enabling entirely new ways of optimizing existing business strategies & models and grow ... Read more
