Why you need Nina Dar as your PLM coach

Don’t keep hitting your head on the same brick wall expecting a different result. Look beyond the wall…

• PLM is a Differentiating Business Strategy that balances the Transactional Strategy in the business (Integrated Business Planning (SOP), ERP, LEAN )
• It is about sharing through dynamic connectivity in pursuit of competitive leverage. The kind of leverage that is opportunistic, market / customer moving and future thinking
• Because of these things it is not about which PLM system you are going to have, it’s about how you are going to connect your systems to support this behaviour and use of flexible business processes
• And it’s all about how you are going to change the behaviour within the business to capitalise on opportunities that differentiate your business as well as maintaining the transactional quality and consistency

Nina can only work on tough projects, she is bored by anything that doesn’t need her ability to look through a thousand problems and barriers, simplify them and get a community of people to execute delivery of the required goal. She has done it in the toughest of PR situations (heritage brand relocation), delivering the toughest of business process change projects (PLM), in the toughest of terrains and cultures (Africa) for the toughest of bosses (venture capitalists) and she smiles all the way through it, because she loves it.

Nina led the first global PLM implementation in the CPG market, using Siemens Teamcenter. Fiercely software agnostic (despite the flattering offers), she makes sure the technology enables the change and not the other way round. With 10 years proven delivery in the PLM arena, she continues to push the narrow traditional thinking in this area, so that companies start to see PLM as the differentiating business strategy that balances the transactional focus so many companies invest millions in.

Her experience in leading and delivering business change over the last 20 years has led to a subtle change in her approach. Nina proudly carries nicknames of “ball buster”, “storm trooper” and “whirlwind” to name a few (and give you a flavour of what it’s like to have her around) and today she is as uncompromising and fearless as she has ever been but she leans more to education, psychology, mentoring and coaching to get her message across.

Nina has been involved in PLM projects for PZ Cussons, Unilever, Boots & Moog and all of them have required coaching of the key people before the project could start. It’s a low cost solution that saves thousands on the project that finally kicks off.