BROADCASTS.com

Digital Enterprise Society is the authority on the transformation to a digital enterprise, impacting all areas of an organization. Tune in for discussions among industry leaders about operations and action needed to drive digitization principles forward for the future of product development and life cycles. 

On this episode, Thom Singer and Craig Brown welcome Martin Haket, Lead CM Architect at ASML.  Martin shares the career path — and mistakes — that led him to his position as lead architect at ASML.  He recognizes the need for raising industry standards with configuration management and offers ideas on the best ways to highlight the benefits of configuration management to those that need it most.  He also shares the reasons he thinks configuration management is the best position to have in any business, how curiosity for knowledge can get you where you want to be, and why everyone needs to be more willing to make mistakes their careers progress.  

 On today’s podcast, you will learn:

Lessons learned from trying to define configuration management

• Martin shares the results of trying to take on the overwhelming task of defining configuration management. 
• There are benefits that come with waiting until a crisis to fully adopt a better system. 
• The value of taking the time to increase your industry knowledge and understanding while you are waiting for a better system to be adopted. 

How to showcase the benefits of configuration management 

• Where is the greatest need for configuration management and how can you best explain it to those that need it most? 
• Highlight the steps that more properly measure CM performance and consider the benefits of configuration management — ask what an improved product or process can bring to a company. 

• Attach a dollar value to the changes that CM can bring to a company. 
• It becomes easier to encourage CM adoption between sectors when the results have already been proven within the company.

Best practices for raising Industry standards

• Avoid using tools that are not capable of interfacing with one standard format. 
• Build tools that interface with the impact matrix and other companies within the industry will follow.
• Investing in tools that can be re-used throughout the industry benefits all interested parties. 

Continue the conversation with us within the Digital Enterprise Society Community at www.DigitalEnterpriseSociety.org.