I was rather happy to read the Aberdeen report’s summary which highlights that global product design and development leads to reduction in product development time and time to market while allowing the protection of intellectual property through Digital Rights Management.
This blog and my research has been investigating these issues for some time and I am glad that the data is now available. The question is how do you make it work in practice, particularly if you are not a gigantic organization that can afford to open offices worldwide and actually place your person to work with the supplier in another country. That is an interesting question …..