As the complexities of products and engineering organizations are constantly rising, the approach of simplifying and standardizing processes and managing them with first-generation workflow automation tools has reached its limits. Directly specifying all possible process configurations and reconfigurations is not only slow and costly, but often impossible. The consequences are ill-fitting processes and soaring process development and improvement costs. A PLM or ECM solution with the Living Systems Process Suite delivers more agility in two key areas: process design and process execution. A goal-oriented process model can be changed whenever it becomes necessary, for instance to adapt to new regulations. Goal-oriented process execution also means that the process management system autonomously adapts the process path whenever it benefits the achievement of process goals.