CM2 Essentials

This course explores the vital role of an organization's data, not just as a tool, but as the DNA that drives innovation, optimizes current products, and shapes the future. The Digital Thread serves as the connective tissue linking enterprise disciplines and datasets, much like DNA building blocks. Individually, these elements provide different perspectives, but when connected, they form a more powerful whole‚ the Digital Twin. This interconnected system allows organizations to manage initiatives and challenges with confidence, ensuring that decisions account for both current and downstream lifecycle impacts. The course will demonstrate how breakthrough business process improvements are achieved by holistically addressing the interoperability of people, processes, systems, and data. While technology enables process change, true success requires organizational transformation, where people are inspired, empowered, and engaged to drive meaningful change.

Standardize and optimize your end-to-end business processes with industry best practices to enhance data integrity, understand functional interdependencies and break silos. This series contains key elements of Courses CM2-01 through CM2-04. Students will be able to understand these key concepts and more:

• How Product Structures and CM2 Baselines are the foundation of the digital thread
• CM2 V-model for development and the proper flow down and validation of requirements
• CM2 Closed Loop Change Process
• CM2 responsibilities including key change management roles and critical decision boards
• How to accomplish an enterprise change assessment to enable robust business decisions
• How proper planning leads to efficient and effective implementation of change
• Managing the complexities of service, upgrades and aftermarket support