Executive Summary Manufacturers of residential HVAC products don’t always realize they’re trapped in a complexity spiral. Expanding product variety seems necessary to meet customer demands—but behind ...

In my colleague’s recent post about the components of a CPQ system, a CPQ system was defined to include at least five fundamental modules: A front-end, a configurator, a visualization solution, a pric...

For the last 15 years I have mainly worked with project-focused companies producing large products, engineered to order. It has been in industries ranging from marine applications, packaging lines, pr...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of 21st-century sales, businesses worldwide are catering to the individual needs and preferences of their customers like never before using mass customization and pro...

With the blog What is the Cost of Developing, Maintaining, and Deploying a Software Architecture? we started to unravel main cost distribution areas in software development, and in Cost-Efficiency Unl...

When discussing modularization, key terms like "mass customization" and "configurator" come up frequently. These concepts are integral to achieving meaningful results from modularization efforts and d...

Achieving cost leadership means consistently demonstrating, with data, that your product’s total direct material and labor costs are lower than those of your competitors. In the durable goods industry...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of the durable goods industry, the ability to adapt and innovate is more critical than ever. The post-pandemic world has presented us with unique challenges and unpre...