Whether you’ve just decided to corral all your PLM initiatives under one organization, or you’re already down the road and have created your governance model, completed your strategy and gotten everyone excited (and have the money approved) to move forward, what are the biggest risks to success in a large enterprise with PLM?

PLM is not a new concept. It has expanded well beyond the industries where it started.  A question that we at Integware continue to hear from most companies, and in particular the visionaries within companies new to product lifecycle management, is “how do I show the business value of product lifecycle management?”

I have been calling directly into the Life Sciences (LS) space for about a year and a half.  I will not call myself an expert, but given that I have been in the business world for over 30 years, I feel I have crossed over into the category of a “gray hair” and therefore I can have some relevant observations.  My below observations are in some ways provided as an outsider looking into the LS industry.