Digital transformation starts with a robust business vision and implementation strategy
Organizational culture eats strategy for breakfast, lunch and dinner; so don’t leave it unattended.
Xlifecycle Ltd offers a combination of operational leadership and strategic advisory services to facilitate successful business transformations. Their services include program management, business change, master data management governance, digital strategy development, organizational change management, and coaching for CxOs. Xlifecycle Ltd focuses on managing new product development and all aspects of product and project lifecycle management.
Xlifecycle Ltd bridges the gap between management consultancy, enterprise architecture, and business integration. Their experienced consultants have expertise in various business and technical domains, ranging from top-down strategy definition to bottom-up use case mapping.
The company also supports business integration, serving as product owners and acting as a liaison between business and IT functions to drive change strategies forward. Xlifecycle Ltd leverages enterprise architecture frameworks and leverages cross-industry and global delivery experience, as well as various business consulting methods and models, to implement digital transformations.
Strategy plays a crucial role in guiding organizations towards their next level of maturity on the digital ladder. This involves aligning operational models and talent development with continuous improvement in enterprise operations. To achieve this, business leaders must make bold choices and prioritize platform and architecture shifts that will have the most significant impact on business outcomes. This includes improving both operations effectiveness (doing the right thing) and efficiency (doing it right).
To ensure successful change strategies, organizations must clearly define their desired outcomes, establish metrics to track progress, and build holistic data governance and operational structures that can effectively support the change after it is implemented.
Steering committees play a critical role in ensuring ongoing alignment, providing direction during execution, managing delivery partners, and implementing new processes or platforms. It's important to note that cultural change cannot be planned; success typically arises from the continuous execution of contextual strategies, organizational design and change management, and the convergence of capabilities and practices.
Consulting services
Digital Strategies
Enabling digital continuity, Digital Twin adoption, IT modernization strategies, including platform selection
Value Chain Mapping
Improving master data governance, integration, architecture alignment and process re-engineering
Business Change
Driving change roadmap and skill alignment, business initiative justification and benefit realization
Delivery Leadership
Leading program delivery and deployment; from stakeholder and third party management to service transition
OEMs
Our consultants excel at leading functional and technical teams or advising executive stakeholders to drive continuous improvement and business change programs.
This includes guiding organizations in assessing PLM and related enterprise platform suitability, selecting technology solutions and service providers, and managing delivery performance—serving as the "glue" between internal IT, business teams, and external partners.
We bring expertise in steering committee governance and collaborate closely with solution architects to ensure the solution is fit-for-purpose.
Solution Editors
We support solution editors in positioning their PLM platforms and solutions to meet OEM requirements, responding to client RFx, and establishing business change credibility. Our consultants are well-versed in the enterprise platform sales process, assisting with business case definition, stakeholder engagement at C-level and B-level, and guiding the development of business requirements, commercial plans, and delivery strategies.
Our expertise ensures these efforts align with organizational goals for seamless integration and measurable results. This includes collaborating with partner resellers or business/system integrators and leading implementation services.
Service Providers
Whether focusing on reseller support and education or implementation and system integration services, we assist with account planning, stakeholder management, responding to service opportunities, pitching commercial proposals, and developing capability roadmaps—whether as part of formal RFx responses or proactive client statements of work.
Our expertise spans technology-agnostic (business-centric) and technology-specific solutions, covering both IT/technical and business change capabilities. We are equipped to help lead OEMs’ digital transformation programs.
Thought leadership services
Value Marketing
Developing go-to-market strategies, case studies, POVs, and value propositions
Business Advisory
Supporting leaders to define and implement data lifecycle and Digital Thread strategies
Best Practices
Assessing business insights, capability maturity, innovation planning, portfolio configuration
OEMs
Implementing business change demands a deep understanding of digital transformation and enterprise platform capabilities. We advise and educate executives, business leaders, and technical teams on how to size investments and maximize their returns.
Our support includes coaching on building a PLM roadmap, translating technical jargon into business-friendly messages, and defining effective communication strategies for the extended enterprise.
Solution Editors
We assist in capturing project case studies, compiling success stories, and transforming product capability value into impactful materials such as white papers, blog posts, keynote presentations, surveys, and webinars to drive sales and marketing opportunities.
With a strong understanding of technical solutions and business change requirements, we also support the development of platform sales strategies, technical product positioning, and implementation service practices.
Service Providers
Our consultants and data analysts assist in defining go-to-market strategies for services, creating sales and marketing roadmaps, and developing growth and capability plans.
We help organizations build a robust body of knowledge to establish credibility, support leadership in training consultants, document success stories, and craft thought leadership perspectives to enhance current and future client proposals.
Read the v+d blogXlifecycle Ltd adds value by applying industry experience to simplify digital and business transformation, aligning strategy with actionable outcomes. The "Connecting the Dots" approach exemplifies how our consultants help organizations integrate processes, data, and technology to achieve measurable success.
Our hands-on leaders bridge the gap between digital transformation hype and real-world implementation. By focusing on clear objectives and practical frameworks, we empowers organizations to navigate complexity, drive integration, and unlock value in their transformation efforts.
Connecting the dots: managing the lifecycle of things
Who we are
Xlifecycle Ltd helps organizations ADAPT to change, ADOPT new digital continuity solutions, and TRANSFORM their operating models—by making the most of enterprise platforms, aligning operating practices and people to realize value from digitization and IT modernization.
Self-Starter
We are committed
Entrepreneurial
We bring new ideas
Analytical
We solve problems
Lionel "Lio" Grealou
MANAGING DIRECTOR & FOUNDER
Lio brings over 20 years of experience in the engineering and manufacturing industry, having worked in the US, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Japan, India, China, etc. and currently based in the United Kingdom. Since August 2018, he has been working as an independent consultant and business advisor with Xlifecycle Ltd, helping organizations implement digital strategies, define business change and technology roadmaps, and implement data continuity solutions across various areas.
As a trusted advisor, Lio has been instrumental in architecting and growing global consulting services teams, leading strategy and practice development, operations, sales, and marketing. He has delivered technology-enabled business transformation initiatives for engineering and manufacturing OEMs and their supply chains.
Lio has also initiated and led several consulting engagements, ranging from small to multi-million dollar initiatives, covering solution architecture, program management, integration, deployment, and operations. He has worked across various leadership roles, from business architect, strategist, business development manager, to business unit/territory vice president or country general manager.
Rika "Lica" Grealou
DIRECTOR & COMPANY SECRETARY
Lica contributes to driving internal operations forward within Xlifecycle Ltd—organizing internal and external comms, building marketing-enabling materials, ensuring reliable bookkeeping, supporting efforts towards operational efficiency, delivering administrative support and coordinating logistics when required.
Following a diverse career in import/export, logistics, supply chain engagement, and business administration, Lica is leveraging 15+ years of experience across small and large organizations in the United Kingdom and Japan—always bringing a positive, people-centric, and refreshing perspective on everything she does. Lica is passionate about communication, learning and people development; among other things, she also worked for a number of years in the field of early-year foundation stage education for a UK-based international school.
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The excitement around Digital and Smart Everything has overshadowed PLM's core principles, leading some to avoid referencing PLM altogether due to its perceived complexity and lack of clarity. While some see PLM as the foundation for digital innovation, others reduce it to just another component of the broader Digital Revolution.
Xlifecycle Ltd collaborated with the PLM Interest Group (PLMIG) to tackle critical questions:
- What is the shared vision for PLM's role in digitalization, and how can organizations align diverse interpretations into a cohesive framework?
- How can buzzwords like "Digital Thread" and generic north star statements such as "connected data" be transformed into actionable strategies?
- What standardized definitions or approaches can help enterprises navigate PLM's wide scope and connect it effectively to the digital landscape?
- How can the PLM community address legacy challenges and raise awareness among digital practitioners about PLM’s potential to drive value in digital initiatives?
- What must future PLM practitioners know to harness digital transformation for value creation?
Enterprise digital solutions have perhaps diluted their specific “purpose” by aiming at integrating all operations under a holistic umbrella—this is perhaps the vision for a fully connected digital future; vendors are also keen to continue to grab new digital 'real-estate' and markets.
This should not be an excuse to dilute the meaning of PDM/PLM, ERP, MES, etc. but perhaps on the contrary, time has come to clarify (and simplify) these disciplines, their interdependencies, and their respective roles in the digital future.
Though the 2020 survey is closed, the debate and the quest for clarification/simplification carries on...