research about integration of plm & bi

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PLM + BI:

Turn Business Understanding to Insight!

“Product Life-cycle Management (PLM)” and “Business Intelligence (BI)”

should be leveraged from each other to re-innovate both together

Dayou YANG

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Previous PLM Research Review


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Research Problem

- A real challenge from one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure suppliers

Month

Product

Amount Monthly Forecast & True Demand

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Research Problem

- A real challenge from one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure suppliers

Research Problem Statement:

How should companies optimise the

product change process strategy in a

situation where there are simultaneous

and variable pressures to be lean,

agile and innovative.

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Research Sub-questions

1. What are the effects for the product change

process when costs are minimised?


process when order delivery period is

minimised?


process when product change time is

minimised?

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- The supply complexity is greatly affected by multiple product life-cycles

(Bengtsson et al., 2002)

Research Conditions

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- The research should provide new scientific contributions at the end

Optimisation of Product Change Process and

Demand-Supply Chain in High Tech Environment

The Research via

“Product change

Management”

R&D product

changes

Customer demand

changes

Supply situation

changes

…

Business process

changes

…

Internal variants External variants

The Thesis

Demand Fulfillment

Process

Product Creation

ProcessProduct Change

Process

CONTEXT ANALYSIS:

EXECUTION PROCESSES:

RESEARCH OUTCOME:

Strategy changes

People affect

operation

PLM Research Conditions

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Action Research Cycles

- Scientific contributions are from multiple research cycles as a journey

Evaluate Diagnose

Plan Act

Cycle 1

Min. inventory

Evaluate Diagnose

Plan Act

Cycle 2

Quick delivery

Evaluate Diagnose

Plan Act

Cycle 3

Rapid product

change

Final

Conclusions

2003 2004 2005 2006 2010

RESEARCH JOURNEY OVERVIEW:

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Optimisation with multi-strategies:

Not only the extremes but also the choices in the between !

PLM Discussion

Minimise costs

Quick delivery Rapid change

(lean)

(innovativeness) (agile)

Optimisation

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PLM Further Research (Inspired to BI field)

“Total Synchronisation” concept with IT solutions:

(A time based optimisation not only in product change period but also as anytime

and anywhere in the operation)

How to apply

the principles

to normal

operation?

How to solve

research

problem and

questions?

(Anytime, Anyw here, ……= Total Synchronisation)

Case 1

Case 2

Case 3

Product change implementation result


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Business Intelligence (BI)

- A career change into Business Intelligence field (2005 - 2012) to learn and develop

the concepts along with IT solutions for individual cases & overall measurement

David Linthicum: “business intelligence is a core part of your architectural planning”.

(from Bill Cason)


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“BI can have a direct positive impact on a

company’s business performance, dramatically

improving its ability to accomplish its mission by

making smarter decisions at every level of the

business from corporate strategy to

operational processes.”

Business Intelligence Vision for PLM

- Source: Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technologies

- Developing the solution to synchronize dynamic strategies and analysis by a

closed-loop process for individual cases & overall measurement


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Business Intelligence Example

Source:

http://www.focus.co/products/cognos-bi/ibm-cognos-business-intelligence/cognos-bi-images-1_20101025145032_Resized.jpg

- IBM Cognos based BI solutions in following environment to support business for

smarter operational decisions.


If Strategy Execution as Driving a Car …

“Actionable foresight” to go head! “Right insights” from what

behind or beside you! +

- How to get right insights and actionable foresight from BI, as well as adjustments

immediately when the changes are still happening?


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Is it SMART?

Source: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/sp/data_warehouse/

- The data becomes useful information and then even better as the insights


Business Intelligence Own Challenges

- However, Business Intelligence has been also complained with a lot of problems for

many years as an arguable way or even cost saving target in companies.

Source: http://www.decisionpath.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/bi_impediments-e1293740530610.jpg


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New Opportunities


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New Opportunity with BI

- A change in the trend of “Top Technology Priorities of CIOs, Gartner”


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Business Intelligence Industry

- Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

Source: Gartner (February 2012)

EXAMPLES (TABLEAU as challenge or IBM as leader):

The 2012 BARC (Business Analytics Research Council)

survey (The world’s largest survey of business

intelligence software users) placed Tableau first.

Top 10 Trends for Business Intelligence on 2013:

1. Proliferation of data stores.

2. Hadoop is real.

3. Self-reliance is the new self-service.

4. The value of text and other unstructured data is (finally!)

recognized.

5. Cloud BI grows up.

6. Visual analytics wins Best Picture.

7. Forecasting and predictive analytics become common.

8. Mobile BI moves up a weight class.

9. Collaborations is not a feature, it’s a reality.

10.Pervasive analytics are finally … pervasive.

IBM has redefined BI with an enterprise solution that

brings reporting, analysis, modeling, planning and

collaboration together for better decision-making

cycles and to help remove the barriers to being

analytics driven. This is the new promise of BI realized.

• The search for analytic freedom and control

• Making better, smarter decisions

• Arming every user with what they need

• Supporting where and how users work

• Meeting the needs of both the business and IT

http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-196WFCB&ct=120207&st=sb


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Based on Image - copyright Asymco.com

Can a Turning Point be Notified in PLM?

- A real change about the No.1 leading company change in smartphone market

PhD Thesis DONE!


How BI can Solve Those Challenges …?

- A journey with determination to show and solve the challenges

Challenge 1:

+ =

What actually happens in business … BI view – still happy?

Challenge 2: How to know each step is OK?


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Development of PLM & BI Together

- Implement a vision how to translate competitive strategies into execution by a

closed-loop process with individual & overall feedback

Research Problem Statement:

How should companies develop next

generation of Business Intelligence to

optimise business life-cycles in a situation

where there are simultaneous and variable

pressures to be lean, agile and innovative.


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PLM & BI = 1 + 1 > 2 (Turn “9 to 5” To “24 / 7”)

- Need to build a ”bridge” from BI to the business for right insight-aimed development:

• Not lost by the averaging or filtering

• Every Moment with the alert:

• Right insight

• Actionable foresight

• Individual & overall feedback – all

visualized!


Was it or Will it become A KEY?