Position Papers

 PDF Recap of Position Paper 1 of 3: The combination of scarce resources and globalization are driving an upheaval in innovation and lifecycle management. These changes are coalescing into business strategies that recognize the validity of the Circular Economy and the platformization of PLM. The Iron Triangle of better, faster, and cheaper fixes is being superseded. Skeptics overlook many enterprise-level benefits inherent in end-to-end lifecycle management and overestimate the remaining challenges Recap of Position Paper 2 of 3: The challenges confronting innovation and end-to-end lifecycle management are a matrix and must be addressed that way. Ideation is the fundamental rationale for lifecycle management. Platform support for ideation is the intellectual process of creating new products that are globally competitive and sustaining of the enterprise through end-to-end lifecycle management, including information governance. Platformization is the drawing together of personal productivity tools, lifecycle management at the enterprise level, and cross-functional collaboration. End-to-end lifecycle management