The PLM Operating Model
The PLM Operating Model three layers challenges and work we perform in isolation or as part of the Connect, Define and Implement approach
Product Portfolio
Challenges with a growing Portfolio
Portfolio strategies often stay on slides. Investment, growth, and sustainability ambitions rarely translate into what projects really deliver.
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Rapid diagnostic of how portfolio decisions are currently made, identifying gaps in ownership, governance effectiveness, and prioritization logic.
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Assess products across lifecycle stages (launch, growth, maturity, decline) to identify optimization, rationalization, and investment opportunities.
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Define the key performance indicators and decision metrics that enable leadership to monitor portfolio health, prioritize investments, and act on growth, margin, and complexity.
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Design and implement how portfolio decisions are made - defining governance forums, ownership, prioritization logic, and decision cadence to ensure clear accountability and effective tradeoffs.
What we do | Building a robust Portfolio Governance
We work alongside your portfolio leadership through the full transformation - designing, embedding, and handing over a capability your organisation runs on its own. Below are examples of work we do.
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Idea to Market
Market to Order
Order to Cash
Challenges delayed launches and costly execution
The Idea to Market, Market to Order and Order to Cash is where people work in practice, either in planning the portfolio, developing and launching new products or maintaining the existing product portfolio. We know that late changes, variant creep, and unclear ownership impact both timing and product margins.
What we do | Building an efficient launch engine linked to Portfolio Decisions
We work alongside Product Management, Product Development and Operations through the full transformation - rebuilding how products moves through your launch engine, from new product introductions to engineering changes and product maintenance. Below are examples of work we do.
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the current new product development process, identifying bottlenecks, unclear roles, and governance gaps.
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Identify root causes of delayed product launches, including dependencies, decision delays, and cross-functional misalignment.
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Establish coordination and decision-making across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain to ensure smooth and aligned product releases.
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Redesign stage-gate structures, decision checkpoints, and readiness criteria to improve execution discipline and speed-to-market.
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Digital Thread
Challenges with functional silos and a disconnected Digital Thread
The digital thread is the main enabler for the Idea-To-Market, Market to Order and Order to Cash processes. Without a connected digital thread, teams work document based and in silos. Decisions don’t flow, facts don’t surface, and traceability becomes painful.
What we do | We build a a model based digital thread
A model based way of working is the only way forward. We work alongside your PLM, IT, and business teams through the full transformation - designing the digital thread, embedding it across functions, securing the people, process, data and tool alignment. Below are examples of what we do.
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Assess current PLM maturity, identifying gaps in usage, governance, adoption, and overall effectiveness.
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Map current (As-Is) and future (To-Be) PLM processes to identify inefficiencies and define improved workflows.
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Develop critical Use Cases for the chosen digital thread area that can be implemented into the business
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Design the lifecycle data model with the relevant data maturity that will support critical use cases
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We implement PLM Capabilities, Processes and Use cases together with our clients based on a proven business transformation model
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