PM-Professional Switzerland - Programs and Projects for Innovation

  by pixabay Learning project management and getting involved in PMI activities has been an experience that helped me a lot to understand how to deal with my daily job. Whatever function and role I have taken in my career, I have carried my duty according to these best practices. In fact, while projecting development activities is obvious, others like purchasing or selling are also projects and need a good plan and excellent execution. You can manage a portfolio of such projects, hence leading purchasing or selling accounts, and you can also lead programs to set up a new supply chain or develop a new market.  

from pexels Some time ago, I was talking with the CEO of a company about his IT infrastructure on-premises and the cost to maintain it. He told me: "if you have a better idea that can allow me to save money, you are welcome". With my consultant, the company moved to a hybrid cloud architecture, and after a positive experience, they further moved business processes to third-party platforms and enjoyed the benefits.  When someone asks me how to modernize their IT landscape, I always start from the as-is assessment. Furthermore, I suggest considering IT as part of their business strategy. In addition, I recommend thinking about what level of collaboration they need because you can find many applications based on web technologies. For instance, we can look at Office365 or Google Workspace. Hence, starting with the needs for services: Communication Storage Access control and user device management Security including disaster recovery measures, firewall, antivirus Hosting including...

Graphcore  produces and sells HW dedicated to AI computing, while TSMC is a leading Fab for semiconductors and leader of  edge technolog ies for their packaging . Those technologies are explained very well in this video. WoW is a new way to make the CPU more efficient and with a higher rate of interconnections between computational units and memories.

  Many companies have "managers" thinking solutions to improve their "silo" or push new fancy technology. Most of the time, the customers do not benefit from that Inside-out approach.  A company live thanks to its customers and, they have to be at the centre of the company strategy. Hence, all solutions have to drive better customer experiences. That is thinking Outside-in. 

Managing IT and devices in today's environment: remote workers, large portfolio of end devices (e.g., laptop, desktop, tablet, phones). Security is another aspect: encrypting disks, lock/disable USB ports, using VPN, and so on. Microsoft 365 can solve these problems, providing a cost-effective solution for enterprises. Besides, it makes life for IT managers easier.     

  Software development for applications where security plays a central role is a challenging activity. Let's take the example of applications such as automotive, railway, medical devices. In these cases, the coding activity represents only a minimum part of the aim of the project. The documentation, testing and validation part can also take up to 85% of the activities involved in the development. In particular, the "product" resulting from the development could be subject to certification for its "general availability" to the market. There are regulations and norms (i.e., IEC 62304) that dictate the requirements to follow in such cases.  While this exercise can look complex, the famous V-Model can help the organization in managing it. There, an organization can easily map the necessary process steps and documentation needed to control the development and realization of the product. An Agile based organization can adopt this model for example by assuring that the...

  Beating the competition most of the time means having products that overdue the expectation of the customers, therefore companies look at their supply chain in a way to source components and technology at a good price. Most of the time companies achieve good sourcing costs by looking at the market in the far east.  In this way, they can remain profitable and sometimes that means "in the market".  However, taking control of a complex supply chain setup is very difficult, and the cost of not doing it can be huge. We can list some causes of what can put the business at risk:  Supplier is not properly qualified The production at supplier site is not qualified   Parts are not inspected before their shipment  Taking such conditions, companies have only a few chances to get control of their supply chain: Setting up an office in the region to support the supply chain operations Having dedicated resources to fly in and out and make the job done Using one of t...

Rome is experiencing the new Li-Fi technology, the use case is a computer lab of a school. The Light-Fidelity uses the light to transport the information. It reduces the pollution from the electro smog while it increases the data transmission speed (more than 10 GB).

Batteries are the key enabler for today's innovation in portability and moreover in mobility. For example, batteries make EV are heavy and have one big issue that can block customer adoption: charging time. StoreDot has developed a new technology to charge them faster. Commercial availability is going to be in 2021.  

The applications of UAV are growing and therefore also the generated business. While drone can let us thinking about battlefields and wars, the reality is that they can be used on a variety of civil applications, including packet delivery (i.e., Amazon), check infrastructures  (i.e., bridges, wirelines), to map and to monitor territories, rescue missions, and many more.  Fortune Business Insights reports that this business will reach more than 25 BUSD in 2027.  One of the promising company with a base in Switzerland and Sweden, that is partially owned is Saab AB, is UMS Skeldar which has already 2 products in its portfolio. They have already deployed a solution for piracy countermeasures.