Process-Driven Products

From R&D to post-sales customer service, every group in an organization is critical to a new product’s success. PPM systems can unite all the elements that drive new product development — and squeeze more profits out of these projects.

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IT Business Edge

July 14, 2010 - Service Companies Adopting Product Companies' Project Management Strategies by Christophe Borlat (Genius Inside)

Every time a company signs a contract, approves a project or takes a product to market, it accepts risk either implicitly or explicitly. Risk is an accepted reality in business. But just because risk is a reality, that doesn't mean companies should passively let it wash over them while trusting the fates and good luck to make everything come out successfully at the other end. Smart companies always look for ways to minimize their risks and take informed chances, especially when deciding which products or services to take to market. In this way their risk becomes more calculated, like a scientific experiment, than the raw risk gamblers take when they bet the house on a royal flush hoping no one at the table is holding four aces.

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CIO.com

June 30, 2010 - Information and those who manage it (CIOs) critical to effective project management
By Neil Stolovitsky, Genius Inside: Smaller teams, fewer resources, tighter budgets and shorter product development lead times mean that project management has become ever more critical and the decision-making process even more demanding.

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