Now working as a business consultant with a focus on mid-market companies, where I assist PLM implementers and customers in their stepped approach towards PLM. In the past I have been implementing data management and PDM systems, later mainly ENOVIA, initially in the Netherlands and later in Europe and even further.
Since 2001 I am working on bringing the customer experiences back to the development teams and partners. This global role helped me a lot to work with customers and colleagues in different countries. The world has become a virtual PLM space with various cultures and people (French, Israeli, American, German, Japanese, English, Swedish,etc. etc).
And a Virtual Dutchman who observed it all
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July 14, 2008 at 7:16 am
Eudald Carrera
Congratulation by the BLOG. it is very interesting.
October 21, 2008 at 9:09 am
vinod kumar
Hey,
It’s an interesting blog, i feel i am lucky to hit such a blog thanks to google i was searching for differences on E-BOM and M-BOM.
December 5, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Jose Santiago
Hello Jos,
Congratulations for your blog. Some years ago I attended some of your training session and now I find really interesting your comments as a business consultant.
Regards.
December 24, 2008 at 8:23 am
Bhushan Teli
Hi,
Thanks Joe for the beautiful blog.
Topics covered are really good.
Regards,
Bhushan Teli
January 4, 2009 at 4:05 pm
K Balasubramanian
Jos
I hit your blog through google on perspectives in EBOM and MBOM and where they should belong to.
Keep it up
regs
Balu
January 20, 2010 at 11:08 am
Ajit Kini
Jos, your blog seems to a PLMopedia. It’s a journey in fact !
Thanks & Best Regards, Ajit
Thanks Ajit and enjoy the journey together
Best regards
Jos
April 16, 2010 at 5:05 pm
steve1981
I learnt lots of things, Thank You
Thanks Hamed
April 16, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Jannis de Visser
Good Blog! Interesting.
By the way, there’s maybe a new area PLM-vendor have to discover:
Within the IT Service Management communities everyone is talking about how to implement CMDB’s (Configuration Management Databases) to support/achieve the Asset Management & Configuration Management as is defined in ITIL-model.
I have noticed that most (if not all) Service Management applications used to support ITIL/ASL-like Service Management, don’t offer any serious functionality in this area.
Maybe it’s time to introduce PLM-tools as the CMDB-solution to support/achieve true IT Service Configuration Management?
I am curious about your opinion…
Thanks Jannis for your interesting thought. The fact that as you mention, Service Management applications do not cover support for ITIL/ASL, might be because the value of having this implemented might no pay-off against the estimated cost of implementation.
As I am not a CMDB/ITIL expert, i have to guess – and perhaps in the wrong direction you were thinking. I think it is similar to the introduction of Asset Lifecycle Management for process owners. As there is a lot of investment to get the process running (could be energy, chemical, infrastructure), once operational the process owner does not want to invest too much anymore in the operational environment. And PLM systems by origin focus more on the creation process not on the maintenance process, although the collaboration capabilities of a PLM system fit very well to an ALM environment. But I am afraid the PLM vendors will not have the focus and knowledge to address this market ….
Best regards
Jos
June 1, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Jannis de Visser
Hi Jos,
Took me a while to notice you had written a comment, but I agree that I most of the PLM vendors don’t have the focus and knowledge to address this market…
The other thing:
It look’s like it’s the classical discussion all over again:
For most companies it’s hard to see the benefit of investing in a PLM-like tool and implementing Configuration Management fully. For most of them it’s good enough for now (as long there’s no competition that’s perorming better) by getting your work done by communicating a lot, performing a lot of manual searches for the correct information, rechecking everything to try to prevent that mistakes are being made, or accepting that sometimes some of your products completely fail…..
April 10, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Jason
Hi Jos,
Great post on PLM killing innovation — an interesting perspective I have yet to read elsewhere… I couldn’t find an email on your site, but I was wondering if you accept guest posts on virtualdutchman.com? I included my email below if you’d like to get in touch to discuss further.
Kind regards,
Jason