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Methods and Practices: Visual Information for Effective Collaboration in Product Life-Cycle Management

Overview

This IDC Manufacturing Insights report examines some of the challenges that manufacturing companies face in achieving effective collaboration and decision making.

According to Joe Barkai, practice director at IDC Manufacturing Insights: "Effective product-related decisions necessitate the perspective of multiple stakeholders and knowledge workers. Manufacturers find that presenting complex, multidisciplinary information using visual methods helps level the playing field for decision makers of varying skills and business goals and helps them reach highly optimized decisions." Barkai believes that "product-related information, presented in a visual context and shared across widely accessible and easily usable collaborative interfaces, can contribute to manufacturers making more effective product-related decisions, decisions that can positively impact the complete product life cycle, from concept to decommission."

Product Life-Cycle Strategies

Ford Europe, Intel, KBA, Koening & Bauer, Koty, Progressive Insurance, Siemens Power

Worldwide

Insights: Manufacturing, Domain Focus