SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

摘要

Why is PLM spreading rapidly from its traditional roots of managing enterprise complexity, collaboration and integration for large manufacturing companies? Analysts and vendors have the obvious response: The convergence of growing awareness, new, easy-to-implement solutions and the compelling collaborative pressures of globalization. IBM Corp.'s John Lindner reaches under the obvious: "Beneath all of the belabored rationales—all of it correct—on why smaller Companies are moving to PLM is something so simple that it usually goes unstated. Smaller companies tend to have unique advantages in executing strategy—even a PLM Strategy." (Lindner is IBM's PLM business leader for consumer packaged goods, White Plains, N.Y.) "Now with PLM solutions better, faster and lower in cost, there are fewer reasons why smaller organizations can't reach for the dramatic benefits reported by the traditional early adopters—those behe-moths fo aerospace, automotive and shipbuilding."