Rick Amori, Technology Integration Specialist at Ford Motor Company explains how Ford TI consolidated thousands of Excel files into a single source of data for all its research and innovation projects, and built a comprehensive view of its portfolio of projects, improving decision-making.
Explore how the numerous metrics of R&D, product development, innovation can be connected to build a comprehensive view of a company's Product Development Productivity and Performance.
Eric Schuetzler, Senior Director of Global Commercialization for Beam Suntory, explains how Planisware Enterprise has been the key to streamline the company's portfolio, improve internal processes, get products to market faster and eventually increase project delivery by 18% without impacting headcount.
Which are the most commonly used metrics for measuring product development performance? What role does R&D strategy play in selecting the appropriate metrics for a given company?
Franz Schürmann, Portfolio Analysis & Reporting for Syngenta's Global R&D, discusses the challenges of Portfolio Management in the Crop Science sector, and why Planisware has become a strategic partner of Syngenta.
We sat down with Dr Cooper last October to ask him about his take on product innovation issues such as mitigating risks in new product development projects, accommodating agile methodologies, and unsticking stalled project processes.
In New Product Development, the ability to deliver projects quickly and on budget is critical to success. Which is why inaccurate estimates are such an important problem. In this talk, Johanna Rothman explains how companies can tackle this issue by shifting their resource management mindset to some of the key ideas of Lean Product Development, and in particular the concept of Flow Efficiency.
Read about a leading German car manufacturer's successful version change to the current release (6.3) of Planisware Enterprise. The number of managed projects is 120,000 and the number of registered users is 16,000.
Product manager Olivia shows ACME Corp how it can transition from a project-centric way of working to a product orientation, to get a better understanding of product configurations, costs and revenues.
