From requirements management to the structures of the products themselves, increasing complexity and loss of speed are forcing a move away from classic component-oriented development.

Function-oriented product development forms the necessary bracket around the disciplines of value creation and the domains of development.

Expanding competitive advantage with sustainable products and innovative business models.

Product success will foreseeably only be achieved with sustainable products. Do durable, repairable and upgradeable products pose risks to business success, or can the challenges of sustainable product development be the competitive advantages of tomorrow?

Not all product functions provide the same benefits from the customer's point of view. And in most cases, the costs and customer benefits of a product function do not have a clear and direct relationship. By weighting and linking functions and costs, products can be optimized in terms of both costs and benefits. The tool for this is METUS Function Cost Optimization (FKO).

The Customer Journey is the entry point to derive conclusive value propositions from the customer's perspective and to make the right decisions early in the product development process.

A central ability for product success is to make decisions quickly, early and correctly. The product manager is increasingly taking on a key role.

Modular product architectures are an effective lever for market and result growth. The current modularization study of ID-Consult shows pragmatic steps for modular product success.

We have been asking more than 150 companies about their competencies and capabilities related to modular products and corelated the results with the respective company success.

A portfolio-optimized approach to create value

A pragmatic approach towards a smart, digitalized product portfolio.

Increase agility with synchronized, interdisciplinary product development.

Mahesh Deshpande of Dassault Systèmes and Jan Goepfert of ID-Consult discuss the value of holistic modularity at the whole product portfolio and value-chain levels.