It is now possible for companies to offer manufactured products to customers around the world. However, these companies face many challenges, including meeting the requirements of customers from different regions, choosing the most suitable locations for development and manufacturing, and deciding what can be global and what must be local. Based on interviews with executives and managers in companies such as ABB, Alcatel-Lucent, Dow Corning and Siemens, Global Product outlines the new global environment, its driving forces, and the resulting opportunities and challenges. From lessons learned, it draws conclusions about best practices and the ground rules for strategies and structures to support successful global products. The author, John Stark, has helped more than 100 companies in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa develop and market new products and implement Product Lifecycle Management systems.

Provides an encyclopaedic coverage of the many approaches to new product development and introduction (NPDI) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Based on interviews with top executives in companies of different sizes and in different industries The author is the President of John Stark Associates, a leading service provider in the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market, and has published numerous articles and books in the field Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Dr. John Stark, a recognised PLM expert, started working in product development in 1979. In the 1980s, he worked in computer-aided design, product data management and business process improvement. He has worked as a consultant to companies in the product development and support area since the mid-1980s; first for Coopers & Lybrand, then as an independent consultant after setting up his own business in 1991. Over the last 30 years, he has helped over 100 companies implement PLM. He has written numerous highly successful books on PLM. He has also developed and delivered PLM courses for executives, people working in the product lifecycle, PLM professionals and university students.

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Global Product: Opportunities and Challenges.- Global Products: Change and Complexity.- Problems: Causes and Action.- Global Products: At the Coalface.- Lessons Learned and Best Practices.- To a Structured Framework.- PLM Enabling Global Products.- Local Performance Improvements.- The Way Forward to PLM.- Current Status.- Changes for Global Products and PLM.