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Product styling: The new competitive differentiator in electronics
Last updated: 11 Feb 2004
In the electronics industry, products are similar in general, and every innovation in features or functions can be copied quickly. Moreover, model supply chains are tightly linked and highly competitive. These factors have raised the stakes and eroded profit margins for electronics companies.
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Energise your supply chain network: New competitive advantage from existing investments
Last updated: 05 Jan 2004
This survey identifies current practices, captures significant trends and establishes operational performance benchmarks in five key areas of supply chain management (SCM): new product development, supply chain planning, customer order management, procurement and logistics.
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How electronics companies can become more resilient and adaptable in a chaotic world
Last updated: 01 Nov 2003
With so much data available from a massive number of sources, people are struggling to do their jobs effectively. Duplication of effort is rampant. Time is wasted. And when an unpredictable event occurs, an inflexible infrastructure could very well let you down.
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When the butterfly flaps its wings: Adapting to chaos and uncertainty in the electronics industry
Last updated: 31 Jul 2003
Electronics companies need to create new business models and networks that can flex with the unknown and the unpredictable -- resulting in an ability to manage earnings volatility in a quarter.
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Strategies for success in the consumer electronics industry
Last updated: 14 Apr 2003
Competition for the consumer electronics industry comes from all directions - even from once-unlikely segments such as industry suppliers.
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Transforming your supply chain to on demand: Competitive advantage or competitive necessity?
Last updated: 02 Mar 2003
Today's industry leaders have to be able to see past curves in the road to successfully manoeuvre around what lies ahead. That's why many are moving away from a static supply chain and making the journey to a dynamic and responsive on demand supply chain.
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Reinventing the electronics industry through enterprise collaboration
Last updated: 20 Dec 2002
IBM Business Consulting Services conducted a survey to document the state of maturity and the business value of enterprise collaboration in European companies.
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Reducing costs and increasing development speed through engineering management
Last updated: 18 Dec 2002
For industrial sector companies seeking to improve innovation, reduce costs and accelerate the speed of product development, challenges abound.
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All together now: Supply chain collaboration in the electronics value chain
Last updated: 16 Dec 2002
Intense competition, rapidly declining prices, unpredictable customer demand, and constrained material supplies are facts of life in the global electronics supply chain.
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Reshaping the funnel: Making innovation more profitable for high-tech manufacturers
Last updated: 16 Dec 2002
Based on research across eight high-tech segments of the manufacturing industry, the IBM Institute for Business Value has identified four management disciplines that help convert art into science by fundamentally reshaping how companies manage new product and service development.
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Redesigning the product-development process
Last updated: 21 Sep 2002
It's possible to organise the process of product development in such a way that it's not necessary to engage in a wholesale redefinition of every single process detail when the environment changes.
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Ready or not, here it comes -- High-tech 2005: The horizontal, hyper-competitive future
Last updated: 18 Sep 2002
With some justification, CEOs of high-tech companies have blamed their recent losses and missed earnings on the global economic slowdown. Struggling to optimise their existing business models, many companies have implemented across-the-board budget cuts and layoffs.
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