Wednesday, September 9th 2020
This week in
Consulting
Accelerating Product Development in the Digital Age
This week’s must read
What new technologies, systems and leadership should be put in place to eradicate the complexity of PLM?
This Week’s Must Read is an insight piece from Beyond PLM on how Complexity is Killing PLM.
Thought Leadership
A “logical way of thinking”, here is a detailed and argued description of systems engineering from NASA’s point of view.
How to get rapid feedback on requirements and design decisions by testing and validating features of Model-Based Systems Engineering.
Dated but still relevant article on the need for corporate R&D organizations to borrow the tools and techniques that Digital Natives use to progress.
Here is a step by step process to better understand where verification and validation fit into the systems engineering life cycle and how to accomplish them to develop effective and suitable systems.
This week’s Consulting News
| Rich Lesser@BCG
| @Business Standard
| PRNewswire
| Consultancy.uk
This week’s media
A recent Spotlight series: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its role in the age of Industry 4.0 Webinar which we are now sharing as a webinar on demand
Consulting sourcing tips
How To Manage the Tail Spend – Our 5 Recommended Practices
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Consulting Procurement or Procurement Consulting?
Type Consulting Procurement in your browser and look at the results. What do you find? A list of consulting companies that offer their services to help improve your company’s purchasing and/or sourcing capabilities. But is it the same thing as Consulting Procurement?
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Hélène Laffitte is the CEO of Consulting Quest, a Global Performance-Driven Consulting Platform and author of “Smart Consulting Sourcing”, a step by step guide to getting the best ROI from your consulting. With a blend of experience in Procurement and Consulting, Hélène is passionate about helping Companies create more value through Consulting.