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Chasing the rabbit: Expert author reveals what makes a market leader 

Executives and managers at industry-leading companies often focus on operations to continuously improve enterprise performance. But Steven Spear, a senior lecturer at Cambridge, Mass.-based MIT—in his book, Chasing the Rabbit—offers up a whole new look at innovative strategies used by notable companies that have established themselves as market leaders.
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A digital transformation: 3D virtual prototypes shrink development cycles for complex products

Swedish Grinding machine specialist HTC recently experienced a transformation of its product development process, thanks to the use of Autodesk Inventor, a 3D digital prototyping application. The manufacturer credits the program with cutting the costs of bringing new products to market—as well as severely shrinking the time taken to launch those new products.
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Nouveau NPD: CA brings its product portfolio management solution to the PLM arena

CA, long known as a leading supplier of solutions for managing IT resources, is moving into the product life-cycle management (PLM) realm with the introduction of a solution for managing the new product development (NPD) process.
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Window of opportunity: Open-source PLM vendor says economic winds are blowing customers its way  

The Aras Innovator software suite is built as a platform for collaborating around product data. Aras turned the suite, which runs on the Microsoft technology stack, into an open-source solution in April 2007. That means anyone can download the solution for free and distribute to an unlimited number of people within a company.
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Research

PLM for CPG: The impact of formula and specification management

To grow shareholder value, consumer packaged goods (CPG) makers and related process-industry companies must find new approaches to product development that can satisfy markets hungry for new products—all with an eye on keeping cost and time burdens to a minimum. That’s why CPG companies, like their discrete manufacturing peers, are turning to product life-cycle management (PLM) solutions to spark innovation in a cost-effective way. As PLM becomes more familiar to the CPG industry, the question becomes: How can these tools be leveraged to deliver lasting business impact?
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