Ten years ago, I wrote about the tension between Excel and PLM, framing it as a choice between tools and a process-adoption challenge. A decade later, the debate persists—but it still misses the point. This is not about whether Excel s...
What is 2026 likely to change? Short answer: By end-2026, AI in PLM will matter less for how well it searches a vault and more for how effectively it coordinates decisions across systems. The shift underway is from AI inside PLM to AI ab...
AI depends on data foundations to be trusted. But unlike previous technologies, AI is actively reshaping what those foundations are and how they must be governed. Leaders who treat data foundations as a static prerequisite risk building ...
Procurement has always been integral to product innovation. The failure has never been one of awareness, but of discipline. When organisations treat sourcing decisions, cost structures, supplier exposure, intellectual property, and susta...
Stopping a PLM transformation initiative is often viewed as a failure. However, in reality, it is one of the most difficult—and sometimes most responsible—leadership decisions an organization can face. In fact, PLM transformations ar...
Lifecycle orchestrating is not about deploying another system, architecture, or infrastructure. It is about how organizations operate across the product development lifecycle—how people collaborate, how data is structured and shared, h...
