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Steps to embody the reform concept
First of all, as a concept of reform, make the current operational situation (AS-IS) comparable with Ideal situation (To-Be) and summarize in several images that how the business process can be changed from the current operational situation and with such changes what kind of effects can be obtained. (Recently, there are tools that promote business reforms by visualizing the processes across the entire company and mining such visualized process.)
Naturally, there would be a gap between the current and the ideal situation and it is necessary to take measures in order to fill such gap. Select the most appropriate measures based on the current organization, business process, information system and the constraints of reforming project (such as time period, resources etc) at the time of taking measures.
A business model is a breakdown of reform concept to operational levels that abstracts the method of ideal operations and summarizes them as a business process flow and business requirements.
Business requirements are requirements that are essential for the establishment of new operations and omissions can be prevented by describing requirements into five elements (Input, Output, Processing procedure, Support tool and Constraints).
Finally, break down and divide the reform concept into steps in the procedure in which system functional requirements are summarized for supporting operational requirements.
Best practices of PLM
It is not easy to realize the concept how to reform the current operational situation, However, successful case studies (These are called best practices) from other companies and other industries would be helpful.
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Key points for selecting Global PLM system platform
So far, we have reviewed how to proceed with development process reform. Next, Particularly we will summarize the points that should be considered on priority at the time of implementing Global PLM system that is a key to reform the product development process.
●Can you make use of your company’s strengths?
If vendor who provides solution has many successful case studies, know-how and best practices of such successful case studies can be the basis for building IT System. Especially, it is desirable to have application system and services with high level of completeness of operational functions provided as standard package.
However, it is also important to have the freedom to implement the business requirements that are unique to your company in the IT system.
●Can the cost be minimized?
It is necessary to consider not only about the initial cost to be incurred at the time of implementation of IT system, but also the maintenance cost which will be incurred continuously.
●Can IT system be used continuously in the future?
The key point is to check the “Continuity of support”, “Scalability of IT system”, “Responsiveness to business changes” and “Easy migration at the time of version upgrade”, so that IT System can be used continuously as company-wide platform in the future.
In the past, the necessity of local support was an important perspective. However, at the present, when network infrastructure is gradually developed, except for few countries (Countries where data is not allowed to be taken outside the country), data is managed centrally (Including the case of cloud computing) and the style of operating data by using high speed network is becoming more common.
Furthermore, the need to use IT system as a service rather than building the IT system on premises has been increasing and earlier there were situation when local support was required and now it has been changing.
We are now in an era where the completeness and security of business functions provided by application packages and IT services as standard function are in high demand.