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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Executives: Set the Product Platform Strategy

The executive dilemma is how to simultaneously optimize operational excellence, customer intimacy and product leadership. And it can be solved. As CEO of an international company, I learnt that it’s p...
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3 steps Implementing Lean and Modularity

Minimize Waste Using Lean and Modular Product Architecture Minimizing waste is the focus of both lean and modularity. In many ways, they’re the perfect match to accelerate value creation.
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How to Improve Productivity in the Construction Industry?

Construction has a hard time to match the productivity of other industries Although there have been multiple phases of industrialization, these changes have had varying degrees of success. And despite...
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The Application of Futures Studies in Innovation Processes

During the past 5 months Lina Simme and Linda Eriksson from the master program in Design and Product Development at Linköping University conducted their master thesis together with us at Modular Manag...
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Examples of Product Configurators and the Importance of Guided Selling

INTRODUCTION In this post Alex Ginsburg, senior specialist with more than 25 years of experience in the field of modularization and configuration, will share his personal experience when going out on ...
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High-Level Modular Systems with Multiple Shared Subsystems

This is my second post in a series of blogs around modular systems and configurable product platforms. In the first post, What makes a Good Modular system? I looked at how good modular systems balance...
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