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If you want your company to be a market leader, you need to innovate relentlessly. Today's most forward-thinking companies are building Global Innovation Networks that let you continuously improve your products and processes - and organize your value chain so that innovation can flourish.

Global Innovation Networks unite global partners, suppliers and customers through a shared base of product/process knowledge. By allowing distributed value chains to innovate as a single enterprise, these networks drive today's crucial business imperatives:

  • Increasing the yield of innovation - By enabling your value chain to view new product ideas and validate them against customer, engineering, and manufacturability requirements, Global Innovation Networks accelerate the entire process of innovation and expand your innovation capacity.
  • Compressing time to market - Global Innovation Networks provide project and portfolio management tools you can use to manage program performance against measurable goals and determine whether your processes, designs and/or suppliers are working effectively.
  • Optimizing resources - By maximizing your ability to re-use the ideas, processes, resources, skills, designs, parts, documents and sourcing relationships that differentiate your company, Global Innovation Networks enable you to cost effectively respond to rising customer demands.
  • Meeting business and regulatory requirements - By incorporating compliance as an integral process in your product lifecycle, Global Innovation Networks provide a cost effective solution you can use to mitigate the risk associated with non-compliant products.
  • Maximizing globalization advantages - By uniting the participants in your distributed value chain at every level, Global Innovation Networks allow you to "design anywhere, build anywhere, and support anywhere."

We have identified eight PLM business initiatives that represent some of the best paths to quickly and efficiently accelerate business growth and evolve your innovation abilities.

Global Innovation Networks are all about shared knowledge. So no one is left out of the innovation process. Because to compete in an outsourced world, no company can afford to take the chance that the best idea isn't heard and shared. Ensuring this level of collaboration is at the core of a true Global Innovation Network. Enabling them is the core of the Siemens PLM Software vision. And no one can do it better than we can.

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Analysts Discuss Siemens PLM Software's Vision

Siemens PLM Software Commits To Global Innovation Networks — Navi Radjou, Forrester

"The link between Teamcenter 2005 and Innovation Network is a new market structure that balances firms' global innovation demand with worldwide supply of talent and ideas."

"Teamcenter 2005 provides clients with a solid technology foundation to build Innovation Networks from the inside-out, by injecting fluidity into their internal invention-to-innovation processes."

"UGS Commits To Global Innovation Networks With Teamcenter 2005 Launch" June 30, 2005 by Navi Radjou with Ian Schuler

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Siemens PLM Software Spawns A PLM Software Innovation Network - Navi Radjou, Forrester

"UGS' acquisition of Tecnomatix - a digital manufacturing software vendor - and its strategic alliance with Microsoft signal the rise of Software Innovation Networks in the PLM market. Who will benefit?"

"Growth-seeking industrial firms vying to integrate their globally distributed design and manufacturing activities."

"UGS Spawns A PLM Software Innovation Network: Manufacturers Will Benefit" January 7, 2005 by Navi Radjou with Jessica Harrington

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