Platform and Module Strategies

Maintain a grip on increasing complexity

Your range of products and the number of variants is becoming ever greater. Complex structures and processes lead to errors and increasing costs as a result. The development of new products takes too long.


In many cases, platform and module strategies offer an elegant way of handling such developments. Our well-proven platform potential analysis demonstrates the benefits of such a strategy to you. We provide you with support, as part of a systematic process, with the design and implementation of a future-oriented product architecture that enables you to optimally harness synergies in your range of products. We also provide advice and assistance with regard to the changes to structures, processes and ways of working associated with platform strategies.


You can make use of our specially developed methodology, as well as our considerable architectural expertise and capacity for abstraction. You benefit in the process from our unparalleled range of project experience concerning the reduction of complexity.

 

We are your partner for:

  • Analysis of the potential of a platform and module strategy for your business
  • Platform assessments
  • Management of platform and module definition processes for your product range, with the inclusion of marketing, R&D and operations functions
  • Provision of implementation assistance in the initial development projects
  • Adaptation to your chosen platform and module strategy of organisational structures, processes and ways of working
  • Coaching of system architects and product managers
Project examples
Reorganisation and focusing the R&D
The customer can halve the time to-market with constant investments and so introduce substantially more new products to the market - a result of reorganisation and focusing the R&D functions. More...
Planning a telecommunications service platform
A new service delivery platform provides a uniform base for development and integration of new services. Zühlke specifies the SDP requirements and prepares a detailed cost/benefit analysis. More...