You’ve selected the best solution, but do you have the right implementation partner?

With an ever increasing competitive market, companies in any industry are relying more and more upon their ability to innovate their product or service in order to create a revolutionary and incredible experience for consumers. The types of products we strive to create are those that actually enhance or sometimes change lives. Also understanding that it’s not always coming up with something new, but quite often producing what we already do, better. To do this requires a symbiotic environment that infuses technology, collaboration, and data with human preferences, needs and desires. Companies recognize the need to transform their business in order to evolve and remain profitable.

With a realm of potential solutions available, it’s not only about selecting the right enterprise system but integrating and deploying it successfully. Successful implementation and adoption is critical to achieving game-changing status for any company. While innovating business minds are anxious to make necessary changes, they are also reluctant to budget or spend the time to do it properly.

The Cost of Bad Implementation

Many are skeptical that they need help and believe they can shop for a ‘better price’ when it comes to implementation. With the ever-increasing complexity of an enterprise solution, it’s common to overlook essential business processes and the need for platform integrations which can ultimately create a delay in deployment.

Finding the right partner with the expertise, experience and skill set is very important to avoid implementation failure and deliver expected benefits. In your search, consider some of these tips to finding the right partner:

1. Include implementation services into your overall solution budget. PLM deployment failure often occurs at the very beginning of the initiative. A good understanding of the implementation services costs required will help you to deliver the full PLM technology roadmap.
2. Ask for certification. Look for partners, consultants and system integrators with a proven track record implementing the specific technology your solution is based upon through the use of industry best practices and methodologies.
3. Get requirements documented at the beginning. Qualified service providers will help align your organization’s strategy and business processes with a properly defined PLM implementation roadmap.
4. Look for proof of project management methodologies that utilize a consistent and defined approach for project planning, execution and management.

A strong competitive advantage relies on a few simple things – providing consumers with the products they want, when and how they want them, and at the price they are willing to pay. The challenge is enabling your organization to work effectively to create products that meet consumer demand and beat your competition to market. To properly deploy a PLM solution requires a team of experts such as Dassault Systèmes Industry Services that can help ensure the technology meets your business and timeline objectives.

Have you budgeted for your next solution implementation? Can your solution services provider help you identify the highest value potentials for business transformation and provide comprehensive recommendations?