The Liberation of Design in Retail Markets

Leveraging Innovation to Bring the Best Design Ideas to Market

February 25th, 2013 | by Steve Riordan and Mallory Engler

In retail, the responsibility, authority and capability to design apparel, footwear and accessories has begun a rapid shift from a relatively small number of revered design gods and goddesses to the broader masses. To compete, retailers can use the liberation of design as an opportunity to innovate and improve their merchandise and product development processes, and to ensure they are bringing the best design ideas to market. Read More

PLM Vivo PRO

Product Registrations for BioPharma

December 13th, 2012 | by Kalypso

PLM Vivo PRO for product registrations is an enhancement of the standard PLM Vivo for BioPharma accelerator package, providing a more comprehensive solution for companies to manage their product registration processes. Read More

PLM Vivo for BioPharma

December 13th, 2012 | by Kalypso

Kalypso's rapid product lifecycle management (PLM) implementation for the biopharma industry enables organizations to reduce the time, investment and effort to deploy PLM by up to 66 percent. Read More

Driving Innovation in BioPharma: From Discovery to Delivery with Product Lifecycle Management

November 28th, 2012 | by Scott Gibbard and Horst Groesser

Innovation in the biopharma industry is not going to get any easier, or any less complex. Adopting an entire lifecycle perspective to innovation will benefit the measures that matter the most – truly innovative products that generate real health benefits to patients and economic benefits to biopharma companies. This white paper explores how product lifecycle management (PLM) processes and technologies can enable this kind of real innovation in biopharma. Read More

Achieving Breakthrough Innovation: Five Steps to Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty

November 15th, 2012 | by Miton Adhikari

How many times have you heard, “great idea” and, “risky” in one sentence? If you’re a company wanting to make a big jump in innovation, the answer is, plenty.  Read More

The America Invents Act is Coming: Three IP Management Capabilities You Need Before March 2013

August 8th, 2012 | by Sean Klein and Prajakta Kulkarni

Leading companies strategically manage intellectual property (IP) and use these assets to generate significant revenue streams. But the rules in the US for protecting your IP are about to change. Now more than ever, companies need to critically access their IP processes and strategy, because the America Invents Act is coming. Read More

PLM Implementation Methodologies Are Not Created Equal

Part 1: The Relentless Pursuit of Results

July 30th, 2012 | by Richard Mizuno and Sajesh Murali

Today, the promise of product lifecycle management (PLM) applications extends beyond basic features and functions. It’s about enabling a more innovative and higher-performing enterprise through new product development (NPD) and PLM. PLM implementations are complex, but a well-executed approach focused on driving business benefits will realize strong, lasting results – while simultaneously managing risks. Read More

The Project Management Podcast Episode 217: Effective Gate Meetings

July 25th, 2012 | by Matt Priest

Once again, Matt Priest joins Cornelius Ficht, host of PM Podcast, to discuss how companies can make gate review meetings more effective and scalable. Listen to the interview from the PM Podcast site, and follow it up by reading the complementary Viewpoint The What, Who and How of Effective Gate Meetings. Read More

PLM Success Factors: Great Expectations, Mixed Results

July 12th, 2012 | by Amy Kenly

As product lifecycle management (PLM) adoption has gone global, more companies are beginning to take advantage of features well beyond managing CAD, and the potential value has increased dramatically. Of course, any high-value enterprise solution tightly linked to broad business objectives also brings big issues and challenges. Companies expect to accomplish a lot with PLM, but so far, results have been mixed. Read More

The Top Ten Ways for Consumer Goods Companies to Transform the Front End of Innovation

June 11th, 2012 | by Bryan Seyfarth

This white paper explores ten key principles that should be considered by any consumer goods company looking to improve their front end of innovation process. This "Top 10" list of industry-leading practices will get companies thinking about how to transform their idea and concept development processes to develop bigger, better ideas and concepts that generate business results. Read More

Innovation Agility in Healthcare Part 3

Clarify Understanding of Product Data

May 21st, 2012 | by

With an increasingly complex regulatory environment, healthcare execs are looking for ways to innovate faster so they can cope with changes and compete. The third step for forward thinking healthcare payors is gaining a clear understanding of product data. Read More

Evolving with Product Lifecycle Management

May 8th, 2012 | by Bill Poston

The PLM software market continues to evolve, offering powerful new capabilities, cross-functional value and competitive differentiation. To take advantage of these benefits, companies must also evolve. Here's how to get started. Read More

Agile Development Models for Consumer Goods – Not Just for Software Anymore

May 7th, 2012 | by Matt Priest

How does the agile development model used successfully by software companies apply to other product development organizations? Follow these three simple principles to improve product development success in any industry. Read More

Innovation Agility in Healthcare Part 2

Increasing Development Capability

April 24th, 2012 | by

As market, strategic and regulatory priorities shift, a clear decision-making and review process increases nimbleness and ability to compete. The next step for forward-thinking healthcare payors is building agile product development capabilities. Read More

Innovation Agility in Healthcare Part 1

Improve Strategic Alignment

April 10th, 2012 | by

Healthcare payors face an increasingly complex environment. Regulatory-driven restructuring, pricing and efficiency pressures from Medicare, self-insured corporations, and emerging and disruptive business models all combine to create an eerie projection of the future, not unlike the wild, wild west.¹ In response, healthcare executives and product development professionals are grappling with the question – “Can we innovate fast enough to compete?” Read More

Healthcare Product Innovation: Key Trends and Success Factors

March 5th, 2012 | by

In 2011, Kalypso conducted a survey assessing how market factors drive the need for healthcare payors and providers to innovate their products. We asked them to identify the most pressing market factors, assess innovation capability and identify barriers to bringing innovation to market. These are our take-aways. Read More

Open Innovation: Practical First Steps for B2B Companies

March 2nd, 2012 | by Michael Glessner

Considering an open innovation initiative? Don’t take it lightly. For B2B companies who face unique additional challenges, identifying and achieving value can be especially difficult. If your company sees the value and is ready to get started, here are four critical steps that will help ensure success. Read More

The Value of Open Innovation for B2B Companies

January 31st, 2012 | by Michael Glessner

We hear a lot these days about applying open innovation concepts to improve innovation and product development processes. The value is clear for B2C companies, but B2B firms have different challenges and needs that have caused many to hold off. Despite the challenges, the open innovation payoff for B2B companies is significant if done correctly, especially in today’s resource-constrained R&D environments. Read More