In today’s hi-tech manufacturing marketplace, time to market pressures along with industry competition and risks are a constant pressure. Aggressive schedules, compressed lifecycles, insufficient documentation, design omissions, tight funding, and lack of experienced personnel are critical factors affecting the success of large-scale projects. When these factors are not properly managed they can have disastrous impacts on projected factory start-ups, production ramps or go-to-market strategies.

While the legacy energy industry faces unprecedented uncertainty and risk, it is also moving into an era of immense possibilities as the new wave renewable energy initiatives are taking shape on every continent and every corner of the globe. The new SOLAR or WIND renewable industries can be defined by explosive growth, sustained market interest, energy volatility, government incentives, and ever increasing public interest. Renewable energy companies whether manufactures, distributors, servicers or resellers are experiencing unprecedented growth even though all have to work harder to meet regulatory, resource, and customer demands while ensuring final product reliability, efficiency, and quality. All the while, new or emerging technologies, new business models, and new product applications are creating opportunities and diversity in this highly dynamic industry.

The financial services marketplace as we know it has forever been transformed and the only short term certainty is an increase in governance. Each day brings new oversight developments, resulting in increased scrutiny on financial organizations which have direct impacts on products and services as well as the underlying liquidity, risk, credit issues, change management, operations management and regulatory compliance being required across the globe As the market changes and the competition moves from hard to soft to aggressive, firms are having a hard time staying ahead of the competition, developing new products and services, managing their supply chain, enhancing operational effectiveness and providing constituents and investors with improving returns on invested capital.