Viega: Avoiding complexity
As a manufacturer of installation technology, Viega GmbH & Co. KG supplies solutions for the lifelines of tomorrow’s buildings. A high level of variety, spread across very different unit volumes of integral products, poses a particular challenge for complexity management: internal complexity can hardly be reduced without cutting back on external variety. For Viega, however, it is crucial for success to continue to serve the market with the highly specialized range of a premium manufacturer. At the Complexity Management Conference in Aachen, Jonas Riest impressively demonstrates how Viega masters this balancing act: avoiding complexity right from the start by taking variance into account during the innovation process. To do this, he uses our tools for portfolio analysis and variant evaluation. Jonas thus offers a glimpse into the future of complexity management. “Networking data, creating models and deriving insights – these will be the key aspects of variant management in the coming years”, says our lead data analyst Ole Meßerschmidt, summarizing the findings of the two days in Aachen.
