Jim Brown of Aberdeen will
review the results of his Product Innovation Agenda Benchmark
report and his views on the portfolio and resource management
solutions market. Aberdeen benchmarked over 125 manufacturers to
determine how improving product innovation helps companies
achieve top-level benefits. Aberdeen reviews manufacturers’
strategies for profitable growth and the actions that they are
taking to achieve success. The report breaks down high-level
objectives like increasing revenue, decreasing product costs,
cutting product development costs, and increasing the value of
intellectual property into tangible actions, business
capabilities, and technical enablers.
In this context, Mr. Brown will give an overview of the market
for portfolio and resource management solutions. Mr. Brown will
share his insights on how companies can fulfill the top two
drivers for increasing product revenue, which according to the
benchmark study are “increasing fit of products to customer and
market needs” and “increasing value of new product chosen.” The
discussion will include a review of the types of software
applications available today, and the pluses and minuses of the
approaches taken by leading solutions.
Jim
Brown leads AberdeenGroup’s Global Product Innovation
and Engineering research. Its goal is to provide fact-based
research and experienced analysis that advises executives on how
to achieve maximum product profitability and corporate value by
using the right approaches and enabling technology to identify,
specify, engineer, develop, and continuously improve innovative,
high-value products.
Jim founded research and
consulting firm Tech-Clarity, acquired by Aberdeen in May 2005.
Tech-Clarity focused on making the value of PLM and enterprise
software solutions clear to manufacturing business leaders. Jim
began his professional experience with roles in manufacturing
engineering and software systems at General Electric before
joining Andersen Consulting (Accenture), where he focused on
enterprise software applications. He has also served as an
executive at several software companies and as the PLM analyst
for Technology Evaluation Centers and The PLM Evaluation Center.
Jim is a frequent author and speaker on applying software
technology to achieve tangible business benefits. |
