Architecture Grounded Product Line approach
Why companies fail to efficiently develop a product line AND WHY THEY CONSEQUENTLY DO NOT MEET THEIR BUSINESS OBJECTIVES?
Many firms implement product-line/platform approach seeking to deliver variety while pursuing ambitious business objectives:
- Cost Savings: reduced development costs, economies of scale, reduced inventory, …
- Revenue Benefits: quicker time-to-market, enter niche markets, …
- Risk benefits: lower technology risks, higher quality…
But developing a product line is not a piece of cake and can lead to:
- Costly generation of new variants or releases: complex, non-modular, non-scalable platform
- Poor industrial performance: high costs & PPM, long lead-time and ramp-up
- Diversity explosion: over-customization, component proliferation
- Project-by-project local optimization: lack of global market & product strategy
- No corporate commitment: ExCo, sales, programs, … do not adhere to product line /platform strategy
Despite the undisputed and significant benefits of a product line approach, companies fail to efficiently develop it if they do not have a structured & company-wide approach
How an Architecture grounded Product Line approach brings sustainable value AND HOW IT ENSURES THE COMPANY TO ACHIEVE ITS BUSINESS GOALS BY A STRUCTURED APPROACH?
Architecture grounded Product Line approach helps drastically:
Reduce recurrent and non recurrent costs
- development cost (-60% in software industry)
- customization engineering cost (-50% in aeronautic industry)
- inventory cost (10 M€/year in IT server industry)
Reduce time to market
- variant generation time from 200 days to 4 days in defense industry
- Time-to-Market (-50% in elevator industry)
- Order-to-Product time (-75% in IT server industry)
Reduce diversity
- up to -83% component variability reduction in IT server industry
- software module reuse (from ~7% (before) to 90% (after) in software industry)
Our integrated approach relies on 3 complementary axis to deliver the full value of a product line / modular platform approach
Why companies fail to efficiently develop a product line AND WHY THEY CONSEQUENTLY DO NOT MEET THEIR BUSINESS OBJECTIVES?
Many firms implement product-line/platform approach seeking to deliver variety while pursuing ambitious business objectives:
- Cost Savings: reduced development costs, economies of scale, reduced inventory, …
- Revenue Benefits: quicker time-to-market, enter niche markets, …
- Risk benefits: lower technology risks, higher quality…
But developing a product line is not a piece of cake and can lead to:
- Costly generation of new variants or releases: complex, non-modular, non-scalable platform
- Poor industrial performance: high costs & PPM, long lead-time and ramp-up
- Diversity explosion: over-customization, component proliferation
- Project-by-project local optimization: lack of global market & product strategy
- No corporate commitment: ExCo, sales, programs, … do not adhere to product line /platform strategy
Despite the undisputed and significant benefits of a product line approach, companies fail to efficiently develop it if they do not have a structured & company-wide approach
How an Architecture grounded Product Line approach brings sustainable value AND HOW IT ENSURES THE COMPANY TO ACHIEVE ITS BUSINESS GOALS BY A STRUCTURED APPROACH?
Architecture grounded Product Line approach helps drastically:
Reduce recurrent and non recurrent costs
- development cost (-60% in software industry)
- customization engineering cost (-50% in aeronautic industry)
- inventory cost (10 M€/year in IT server industry)
Reduce time to market
- variant generation time from 200 days to 4 days in defense industry
- Time-to-Market (-50% in elevator industry)
- Order-to-Product time (-75% in IT server industry)
Reduce diversity
- up to -83% component variability reduction in IT server industry
- software module reuse (from ~7% (before) to 90% (after) in software industry)
Our integrated approach relies on 3 complementary axis to deliver the full value of a product line / modular platform approach
Customer satisfaction
Score basé sur questionnaire de satisfaction – mars 2020.