Enabling better, faster business and product decisions by maximizing connectivity and collaboration across the enterprise through social technologies and socialization of PLM
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 24 June 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the expansion of its Collaborative Innovation and Social Product Development consulting practice. While research will continue in the respective Knowledge Council, this consulting practice will concentrate on the development and adoption of strategies, processes, and technologies to enhance collaboration and connectivity across enterprises as well as their extended enterprise participants thereby allowing for increased use of collective intelligence, thus improving innovation and the return on investment from new product development.
As part of this expansion, Peter Bilello, President of CIMdata, announced that Dr. Suna Polat will lead the practice. Dr. Polat’s title will be Director, Collaborative Innovation and Social Product Development Consulting Practice. “We are very pleased that Dr. Polat will be leading this expanded practice, working alongside our other growing practice areas and with other senior staff members to expand CIMdata’s strategic management consulting capabilities,” stated Mr. Bilello.
“Collaboration is essential to innovation and executing new ideas and products for sustained profitability and business growth as well as societal impact for nonprofits,” stated Dr. Polat. In recent years, the global connectivity has increased exponentially, thanks to new generation web and mobile technologies. Yet, enterprises are struggling to achieve the “value creation potential” of the social technologies that, according to a 2012 McKinsey Global Institute report, is in the range of $900 million to $1.3 trillion. The same report attributes the two-thirds of this value creation potential to “collaboration” within and across the enterprise. Given this huge potential, it is important that businesses learn how to collaborate better, and leverage social and mobile technologies more effectively across their networks.
With this expanded consulting practice, CIMdata will offer a portfolio of strategic management consulting services for industrial organizations as well as for social software and other PLM enabling solution providers. These services and deliverables include:
- Providing thought leadership in research to assess the state of “organizational connectivity and collaboration” in large organizations and networks
- Defining and implementing organizational strategies by using case studies and best practices within the construct of enterprise innovation management and PLM processes
- Assessing the technologies, processes, organizational culture, and maturity levels for exploiting social technologies to increase productivity
- Providing industrial firms practical technology implementation recommendations
- Offering workshops to facilitate education and collaboration between industries and solution providers
- Developing and validating technology roadmaps with ROI benefit models for the deployment of new processes and technologies
This consulting practice will leverage CIMdata’s more than 30 years of experience serving industry organizations and solution providers with strategic management consulting, market research and analysis, and best practices education. For more information contact CIMdata at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or at +1 734.668.9922.
