About Manufacturing Insights

As manufacturers face a host of challenges in bringing products to market faster, decreasing manufacturing costs, and improving the effectiveness of their sales and marketing efforts, they are turning to IT in order to increase collaboration, better reach customers, and create operational excellence. And, after extensive investment in enterprise applications recently, many are now funding projects and strategies that garner the most value from those applications.

Although manufacturing is a diverse industry, common business issues prevail such as the need to align supply and demand, reduce time to market, and foster and optimize innovation. To help you rise above such challenges, Manufacturing Insights research provides:

• Advisory services focused on the business processes most often targeted for IT investments such as supply chain, demand management and product development
• Market intelligence on emerging issues such as RFID, lean manufacturing, china operations and compliance
• Coverage of discrete and process manufacturing sub-industries such as automotive, aerospace and defense, chemical, consumer package goods, high tech and semiconductors as well as retail and wholesale distribution
• Technology trend information on key issues as they relate to IT
• Details on best practices and actual business cases to help you lower risk and make informed decisions regarding current and future IT investments
• Benchmarking research and expert analysis to help compare your efforts with those of other manufacturers

Background

Manufacturing Insights is based in Framingham, MA and operates throughout the world utilizing IDC's network of global facilities. Our focus is to provide strategic business technology and application advice for the manufacturing industry. IDC is the foremost global market intelligence and advisory firm with more than 1,000 analysts in 110+ countries. IDC forecasts worldwide markets and trends to deliver dependable service and client advice. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world's leading IT media, research, and exposition company.

Careers

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