Context
Aerospace & Defence (A&D) companies are facing major changes, driven by new market needs and economical demands.
As a consequence, A&D companies have no choice but to come to globalization, propose innovative services for their customers and extensively collaborate with partners and customers, with an increasing focus on the product lifecycle support.
Because customer-defined value is much greater early in the development process and performance gap in manufacturing is decreasing, product development is becoming a crucial core competence and a strategic differentiation factor.
Tackling the Strategic Issues
For A&D corporations, these challenges raise two fundamental questions: "How to master complexity?" and "How to innovate the business?"

Typical Strategic Roadmap for A&D Industries
Which challenges and which responses ?
The A&D industry faces a number of difficult challenges :
How to transform Program Management ?
How to reduce lead-time at Engineering operations ?
How to enhance global design collaboration ?
How to take benefit of post-delivery data management ?
How to organize innovation ?
How to protect Intellectual Property ?
How to accelerate development & ramp-up phases ?
How to manage IT ability to support long life product ?
How to support workforce transformation ?
How to shift to Model Based Definition ?
How to manage multi-disciplinarity ?
How to support the re-organisation of the A&D sector ?
Next steps : How to go further ?
Based on its experience in major industrial corporations, Vinci Consulting has developed a methodology for A&D corporations to address these challenges. For more information, you can receive a full presentation file of the A&D Methodology if you send us a request at: info@vinci-consulting.com
This file:
- Defines the specific A&D Strategic Issues
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- Explains the basis of our expertise
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- Describes Vinci Consulting's references
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