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.
Tempted by a PPM solution, but also love the flexibility of Excel? What if you could combine both? Use Excel for its modeling and ad-hoc reporting capabilities and Planisware for distributing and consolidating spreadsheets.
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.
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.