The importance of quality in B2B/B2G high-tech
In the B2B/B2G high-tech sector, it is vital to innovate and to offer products and services that are, if possible, more advanced or with better performance than those of the competition. However, beyond the innovative aspect, the quality must be irreproachable and this over time.
Economic, technological, adoption cycles, unforeseen events
Technology markets are subject to economic cycles and technology cycles (as well as sometimes unpredictable political or economic events). These cycles form a sort of “backdrop” to the company’s activity to which it must constantly adapt.
Standard versus tailor-made, products versus projects
The B2B/B2G high-tech company frequently carries out simultaneously types of activities with contradictory logics: standard and tailor-made on the one hand, products and projects on the other.
Stage-gates: at the heart of product lifecycle management in technology
High-tech products are often characterised by incorporating innovative technologies, having a long development time and sometimes a very high development cost, being accompanied by services and having a long life on the market. How then can the various internal and external stages of the product’s life be secured?
Introduction: product life cycle management
How can a large number of often innovative products, whose development is long, costly and sometimes risky and which, if successful, are destined to remain on the market for a long time, be managed simultaneously and over time? This is the question posed by the management of product life cycles in the high-tech B2B/B2G company
