PLM Vision Development and PLM Strategy Development

This chapter addresses the development of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Vision and PLM Strategy. They both need to be developed. But in which order should they be developed? Which comes first? Strategy is part of Vision, but until the Vision is known, it may not be clear which resources the Strategy should address. And there may not be enough known about resources to finalise the Strategy. On the other hand, it wouldn’t make sense to develop a Vision in detail, and then find out that no Strategy would achieve it. The best approach is to develop them together and finalise them together. However, as Vision leads Strategy, it’s best to start with the development of the Vision. This chapter shows how to develop a PLM Vision and a PLM Strategy. Once the PLM Vision has been defined, people will want to know what the organisation will look like in the future. They’ll ask what the PLM Strategy is. They’ll want to know how the resources in the product lifecycle should be deployed, structured and used in the coming years to achieve the Vision. They’ll want to know how to organise the change from today’s organisation to the future organisation. This chapter answers such questions. It details the process by which a PLM Strategy can be developed.