Comments on: SAP tries PLM…again http://www.chriskelley.org/?p=559 Tangentially in touch with reality Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:40:20 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris http://www.chriskelley.org/?p=559&cpage=1#comment-32095 Chris Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:06:49 +0000 http://www.chriskelley.org/?p=559#comment-32095 Jan - absolutely agree. The point I was trying to make was that ERP systems start from the assumption that the world is an ordered place. Everything has a part number, employee ID, etc to help it find it's place in the hierarchy. PLM systems take the opposite view. The assume things are messy and (to your point) attempt to apply the right level of order to them. The trick is not having that order get in the way of creativity and opportunity. Jan – absolutely agree. The point I was trying to make was that ERP systems start from the assumption that the world is an ordered place. Everything has a part number, employee ID, etc to help it find it’s place in the hierarchy. PLM systems take the opposite view. The assume things are messy and (to your point) attempt to apply the right level of order to them. The trick is not having that order get in the way of creativity and opportunity.

]]> By: Jan Takke http://www.chriskelley.org/?p=559&cpage=1#comment-32094 Jan Takke Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:40:41 +0000 http://www.chriskelley.org/?p=559#comment-32094 Hi Chris, I pretty much agree with you (and david) about the observations ref. messy versus ordered, informal versus formal. However messyness it not a goal, nor a sufficient condition to create innovation. It's just something that goes with it in the early phases of e.g the new product development funnel. The winner of the PLM will have to address the area in-between, the gradual convergence from messy to ordered. Customers don't want messy instable products delivered to them with undocumented hidden properties. So its all about the proper cooperation between the two strengths (creativity and control). Addressing this (as already done between the two hemisphere of the brain, but how?) will be the real challenge of any future leader in the PLM field. Thanks for your interesting column! nospamJanTakke@cadvice.nl Best The Netherlands Hi Chris, I pretty much agree with you (and david) about the observations ref. messy versus ordered, informal versus formal. However messyness it not a goal, nor a sufficient condition to create innovation. It’s just something that goes with it in the early phases of e.g the new product development funnel.
The winner of the PLM will have to address the area in-between, the gradual convergence from messy to ordered. Customers don’t want messy instable products delivered to them with undocumented hidden properties. So its all about the proper cooperation between the two strengths (creativity and control). Addressing this (as already done between the two hemisphere of the brain, but how?) will be the real challenge of any future leader in the PLM field.

Thanks for your interesting column!
nospamJanTakke@cadvice.nl
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]]> By: SAP PLM on the rise — SAP Watch http://www.chriskelley.org/?p=559&cpage=1#comment-31452 SAP PLM on the rise — SAP Watch Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:28:32 +0000 http://www.chriskelley.org/?p=559#comment-31452 [...] its $495 million Agile acquisition earlier this year. But is SAP equipped to pull this off? Blogger Chris Kelley is skeptical. PLM is ‘messy’ by nature; it has to be flexible, juggle multiple input [...] [...] its $495 million Agile acquisition earlier this year. But is SAP equipped to pull this off? Blogger Chris Kelley is skeptical. PLM is ‘messy’ by nature; it has to be flexible, juggle multiple input [...]

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