How to Manage Change in your Strategic Product Platforms?

Governance of your investment in a configurable product platform is a critical part in succeeding to reach the profit and other targets for the product architecture. In our earlier story, Governance a...
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How to Create Needs-Based Market Segmentation

To create successful modular systems it is critical to understand who the customers are, and what needs they have. By analyzing what the customers are looking for and how existing products are perform...
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The Financial Impact of  Modularization 

How to Successfully Realize Lower Costs and Increased Sales? The target with modularization is to meet three business objectives: Operational Excellence, Customer Intimacy and Product Leadership. When...
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Getting the Most out of Your Platforms Using a Maturity Model

Organizations looking to gain the advantage of economy of scale, while also augmenting the value for their customers, are increasingly turning to configurable platforms and products through modulariza...
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Design Products for the Circular Economy

Shifting the Economic Model Transformation maps from the World Economic Forum show where the shift away from a take, make and dispose economic model is gaining ground. So what does this mean for the d...
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How to Phase Out Products?

A Quick way to cut Operational Costs Without Committing to a big Project Have you ever wanted to find a way to cut operational costs without setting up a big project to design a new product platform? ...
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Simplicity + Variety = Product Portfolio Success

This is the age-old conundrum for manufacturers… How can you grow our top line with increased market variety and innovation while still controlling our costs? Organizations typically try two approache...
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Fredrik Erbing joins Modular Management 

Fredrik Erbing have an extensive background from management consulting and technology. Experience includes almost 30 years from leading positions in companies such as Accenture and Acando. Further exp...
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