The document discusses how product obsolescence can negatively impact businesses by preventing them from launching new products, sticking revenue behind outdated production pipelines, and turning long term support contracts into an obsolescence facility. It proposes that with little impact, businesses could unlock revenue, receive residual income through royalties, enable late technology adopters to migrate at their own pace while continuing to receive high quality products, differentiate their customer message by promising products will never fall out of support, and free up bandwidth to speed up new product development. Contact information is provided to discuss if any of these obsolescence issues are worth a 10 minute conversation.

1. by Obsolescence?
Defeated
| Getting your ass kicked by Obsolescence?
Losing money and customers because
you can’t launch new products?
High end revenue stuck behind an
obsoleted production pipeline?
Are long term support contracts turning
your NPI into an obsolescence facility?

2. Slide | Getting your ass kicked by Obsolescence?
How much obsolescence is costing you?
• Exhausted by bottlenecks made worse
by obsolescence?
• Struggling with long lead-times to quote
and fill orders?
• Is your operations team so focused on the
bottom line and sacrificing top-line profits?
• Scrambling to support strategic customers
with old discontinued products?
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3. Slide | Getting your ass kicked by Obsolescence?
Embedded Computer Boards Lifecycle Optimization
What if with little
or no impact you could:
• Unlock pockets of revenue
• Receive residual income through royalties
• Enable late technology-adopters to migrate at a pace that
works for them, while continuing to receive high quality
products
• Differentiate your customer message:
“This product will never fall out of support.”
• Free up bandwidth throughout the organization to speed
up new products out the door?
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4. Slide | Getting your ass kicked by Obsolescence?
Tania Scroggie
Business Development Executive
tscroggie@gdca.com
415-828-2015
www.gdca.com
Twitter: @GDCAcorp
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Are any of these issues worth a
10 minute conversation?