CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
9 April 2007
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CIMdata in the News: Acorn Charts a Course to Global Product Development with PDM
How is a small company, Acorn, strategically orchestrating its product development and engineering practices on a global scale? Beth Stackpole in Design News observes that "high on the list of hurdles for Acorn, and any company pursuing global development is creating business models that support a multi-site approach, putting processes in place to enable round-the-clock development across time zones, embracing tools to foster collaboration and file sharing across remote engineering sites and last, but certainly not least, addressing the cultural differences between geographic regions."
Ken Amann CIMdata Director of Research shares his perspective on these hurdles, "People work and think differently depending on their personal and organizational cultures - using the same words does not always mean the same thing and that can cause confusion. Helping workers in different organizations, time zones and cultures understand how others work and what they need to accomplish improves communication, the proper setting of expectations and collaboration."
To learn more about Acorn's strategic approach to overcoming these hurdles, please read Acorn Charts a Course to Global Product Development with PDM , (Design News, April 9, 2007), Beth Stackpole, Contributing Editor.
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