When it comes to change management, take charge with a strategic plan.
For OEMs, change creates a measure of pain that must be balanced with every other design consideration. The balancing act of managing various lifecycles of system components “ for example, video cards have significantly shorter lifespans than processors “ can make or break time to market, and therefore, product success. In an ideal five to seven-year product lifecycle, change notices must be managed with smarter strategies that reduce overall risk. For instance, facilitating last-time-buys to create an overlap in design time and component availability smooths the path to performance validation for new components. OEMs should expect proactive ODM support in this effort, managing change decisions in advance by testing out new components to preview their potential application impact.
Consider a scenario wherein change notices on numerous components happen just months apart. Reactive management will result in multiple validations”as much as four times as often”with OEMs losing control of the development schedule, performance impact, and cost. More rigorous change management policies and close ODM oversight ensure smart validation, continuous component synchronization, and coordinated testing and introduction of changes. It is this greater level of insight and planning that gives OEMs a competitive advantage in determining how best to handle change. The key takeaway is to understand the importance of distinguishing suppliers by their proactive change management strategies, reducing risk, and eliminating unnecessary and costly changes. To begin the conversation with Dedicated Computing about proactive change management and its role in building for life, connect with us engineer-to-engineer atinquiry@dedicatecomputing.com or 877.833.4848.
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