Global product management, Prime Minister in cloud city development

For companies that need to scale people there are several components to take into account; 1. prove you're so helpful organization to them as they are for you. 2. Do meaningful work and start an initiative that people want to be part of.  3. Appreciate the people themselves and the immense power that your company can grow up to be.

Stephanie Geerlings, Builder, hacker, entrepreneur, product manager and Minister for cloud city development, has grown from $ 3 k-3 m + and teams from 3-50. She has built a software, hardware, large steel machine sculptures and has done 3D, print and Web design and branding for Fortune 500s.

Stephanie values are the basis of how it works. She is too honest, cares about design and believes in people. "Our job is to solve problems. Problems get solved — by thinking through and implementation of best practice in a flexible way. Not all customer requirements are the same. We design and engineer a solution. "

Stephanie Geerlings joins global product management, talk host, Cindy f. Solomon, on Monday 12 August 2013 at simultaneous times from 10: 00 a.m. Pacific time, 11: 00 AM MST-Denver, 12: 00 noon CST Chicago, 1: 00 PM EST Boston.

For Stephanie Geerlings

Stephanie Geerlings, Builder, hacker, entrepreneur, product manager and Minister for cloud city development, has worked in technology & design for 10 years and believes that good engineering and design must be done with artistic and scientific methods. It strives to be a whole mind, cooperative and flexible. She knows how to respect viewpoints, communication with different stakeholders and execute the exhilarating and mundane tasks. Stephanie has grown from $ 3 k-3 m + and teams from 3-50.

She has built a software, hardware, large steel machine sculptures and has done 3D, print and Web design and branding for Fortune 500s. Because of her background of various fast-moving projects, it uses to claim that startup life is the easiest it has ever experienced. Stephanie values are the basis of how it works.

She is too honest, cares about design and believes in people. "Our job is to solve problems. Problems get solved — by thinking through and implementation of best practice in a flexible way. Not all customers requirements are the same. We design and engineer a solution. "

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Global Product Management Talk On The Innovation Imperative

Innovation is an ongoing economic imperative that calls for more people to be innovating, more often. A key ingredient to successful innovation is the everyday practice of Human-Centered Design—the discipline of developing solutions in the service of people.  The discipline of Human-Centered Design combines three essential skills: Looking, Understanding and Making.

Chris Pacione, CEO, LUMA Institute, will chat with host, Cindy F. Solomon, on Monday, April 8, 2013 at the simultaneous times of 10:00 AM Pacific Time, 11:00 AM MST Denver, 12:00 Noon CST Chicago, and 1:00 PM EST Boston. Participants are welcome to listen live at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/prodmgmttalk, call in to talk on the show (323) 927-2957 and to participate on Twitter by following @ProdMgmtTalk and tweeting using the hashtag #ProdMgmttalk

"LUMA is delighted to connect with the Global Product Management Talk community. Innovation is tough stuff! So cultural exchanges like this provide a much needed platform for dialog and the sharing of different approaches. This helps us all," says Chris Pacione.

The Global Product Management Talk features an expert guest talking with Cindy F. Solomon and Twitter participants broadcast live over BlogTalkRadio. The transcript of Tweets and podcast are available following the event for on-demand consumption on the web, iTunes, Google Play and mobile devices. More information available at http://www.prodmgmttalk.com Get reminders and listen live by following http://www.blogtalkradio.com/prodmgmttalk

About Chris Pacione:

As a Co-Founder and CEO of LUMA Institute, Chris leads a highly skilled, multidisciplinary team of practitioners located around the world who are passionate about preparing organizations to be more innovative. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of design and innovation in the US, Europe and Asia and is co-author of the book, “Innovating for People”. Prior to LUMA Institute, Chris co-founded BodyMedia, Inc., one of the early pioneers in wearable health monitoring, and headed up experience design and customer marketing.

Chris’s work has been cited in numerous national and international publications including Business Week, the NY times, Wired Magazine and Fast Company as well as several popular books about design and innovation including “In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World” and “The Design of Things to Come: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Products.” He holds several IDEA Gold Medal Awards sponsored by Business Week and the Industrial Designers Society of America and has been awarded numerous US and EU patents for his work.
 

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Apriso Launches Packaging Solution for Global Manufacturers

Apriso, the leading provider of global manufacturing software solutions, today introduced a Packaging Solution for Global Manufacturers (http://www.apriso.com/solutions/packaging_global_manufacturers.php) to better manage complex packaging operations and conversion processes. Manufacturers who have implemented this solution have up-to-the-minute visibility into and control over plant floor systems, processes and performance to enable more informed decisions and respond faster to change with greater accuracy. Apriso’s unique combination of software applications, industry knowledge and seasoned service organization expertise is helping to accelerate the benefits of implementing this proven, production-ready global solution.

Consumer facing packaging with multiple language, labeling and material tracking requirements demand consistent detail and precision across their production and quality operations to ensure traceability and regulatory compliance initiatives are met or exceeded. Apriso’s Packaging solution addresses this challenge by providing the visibility and control to globally manage production and quality processes with considerable granularity, as an enterprise solution. This capability supports real-time decisions and continuous process improvement (http://www.apriso.com/solutions/Global_Enterprise_Manufac...), especially in complex, multi-SKU operating environments.

This solution can be extended to offer cross-plant and multi-plant product traceability and genealogy to support enterprise-wide containment / quarantine and corrective action processes. Apriso empowers manufacturers operating in the Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage and Consumer Electronics industries to respond faster to change while still retaining the operations intelligence necessary for world-class product traceability and regulatory compliance adherence.

“Enterprises in all industries should deploy quality functionality, especially those in consumer-facing industries, particularly the ones that deliver products targeted for use by children for consumption, such as food for pharmaceuticals.  However, too many companies focus quality efforts on their products, and treat business process attributes in the value chain separately,” said Don Scheibenreif, Research Vice President at Gartner, in Hype Cycle for Consumer Goods, 2012. Published July 24, 2012.

Apriso's Packaging solution, as implemented at a number of manufacturers, delivers the right information with the right detail from any production facility to the right decision-maker – whether on the plant floor or in the corner office. With its proven ability to work seamlessly at the process level with other enterprise systems (ex: BI, ERP, PLM, MES), this solution provides a way to better collaborate end-to-end business processes while allowing businesses to use their favorite corporate reporting front-end while ensuring production processes are standardized on a global scale.

“As a solution designed specifically for global conversion operations, implementations across multiple sites can go live and add value quickly,” said Rick Gallisa, industry director at Apriso. “Apriso’s new Packaging solution provides an ideal framework to manage production and quality operations while also delivering the capabilities needed to quickly extract manufacturing data, and turn it into valuable operational intelligence for informed decision support. This way clients can instead focus more on improving performance while driving continuous improvement.”

Apriso's Global Packaging Solution provides:

An enterprise operations platform to best manage production and quality operations
Hundreds of pre-configured, conversion-specific KPIs to more rapidly turn manufacturing data into meaningful operations intelligence
Clear visibility into all conversion activities – material usage, weigh/dispense, filling, line efficiency, quality inspections, packaging, labeling, palletizing and EBRs, among others – to best support product traceability and regulatory compliance initiatives
Cross-functional, cross-plant process execution analysis for continuous process improvement on a global scale
A growth path to enterprise-wide product traceability, genealogy and containment

As the leader in delivering manufacturing operations management (http://www.apriso.com/solutions/manufacturing_operations_...) solutions for global enterprises, Apriso has assembled a robust suite of manufacturing applications and a team of implementation specialists with experience spanning 20+ industries. This wealth of knowledge, experience and familiarity of working within a variety of manufacturing operations models offers unique value to those Packaging manufacturers implementing an Apriso solution.

About Apriso Corporation
Apriso is a software company dedicated to helping its customers transform the performance of their global manufacturing operations. It does so by enabling manufacturers to achieve and sustain manufacturing excellence while adapting quickly to market changes. FlexNet, Apriso's manufacturing software, uniquely enables companies to manage processes and share best practices across their operations with its BPM platform-based architecture. Apriso supports continuous improvement initiatives by delivering visibility into, control over and synchronization across manufacturing and the product supply network. Apriso serves nearly 200 customers in 45+ countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Customers include GM, Tesla Motors, Volvo CE, Cummins Inc., L'Oréal, Luxottica, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier, Textron Systems, MBDA and Saint-Gobain. Learn more at: apriso.com

Apriso and FlexNet are registered trademarks of Apriso Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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