"Communities"

How to build online community around CAD/PLM software?

How to build online community around CAD/PLM software?

  There is one thing that seems make everyone interested and listen carefully these days – online communities. To build a successful community is a tricky thing. To make a money out of community is huge. Successful online communities can provide a lot of insight about how people are communicating,…

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PLM and growing community of fabless manufacturers

PLM and growing community of fabless manufacturers

There are so many interesting trends to watch these days in manufacturing. I’ve been blogging about Kickstarter projects and manufacturing startups. Another interesting topic to speak about is so called “fabless manufacturing”. A bit history. Fabless manufacturing is not a new thing. Navigate to the following Wikipedia about Fabless Manufacturing to refresh your…

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Social PLM, Graphs and Organizational Overlap

Social PLM, Graphs and Organizational Overlap

Social tools are capturing lots of noise and making real impact these days. After initial hype of MySpace and early days of Facebook, social networks is getting down to real business, profit and smart technology. LinkedIn engineering publication earlier today speaks about some smart engineering work done by LinkedIn engineers…

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PLM 2013: What is your 7-years plan?

PLM 2013: What is your 7-years plan?

I’ve been out of active blogging for the last week because of Autodesk week of rest. It is a perfect time to disconnect from day-to-day activities, stop and think about what happens in PLM from different perspective – customers, vendors, technology. Approaching the end of the year, we can see huge…

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Why Engineers Don’t Like Company Private Social Networks?

Why Engineers Don’t Like Company Private Social Networks?

Couple of weeks ago, I discussed the potential of Yammer / Microsoft bundle to influence PLM field – Will Microsoft-Yammer kill Social PLM… Not yet. Actually, it seems to me Yammer indeed created some influence on what startups in PLM field are doing. Vuuch, last announcement introduces the ability to…

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PLM Communities and Let-go Threshold

PLM Communities and Let-go Threshold

Communities are booming these days. Social networks and Web 2.0 unlocked the potential of interaction online and the idea of gathering people in a community went to mainstream. However, the original idea has nothing common with web. We can go back to organization of elite clubs, unions, discussion groups and…

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Hyper-Social Organization for PLM Dummies

Hyper-Social Organization for PLM Dummies

Today, I had an interesting experience in my life. I had a chance to attend Dassault System Enovia Collaborative Innovation Forum. Be-careful, before you expose yourself to the following links. You will be influenced by a hyper-socially explosion… Ready? Navigate your browser to the following link. This is a conference…

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Next PLM Challenge: To Connect Process and Communities

Social is growing. During the past two years, we had seen many new topics introduced by social computing – social networks, communication, collaboration. A bunch of product were previewed, released… and already failed in this space. Enterprise 2.0 is growing as a separate and very interesting industry. The most visible…

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SharePoint 2010 Communities and PLM Social Demands

PLM is moving fast towards social computing and social product development. I had chance to share some of my previous thoughts related to social features in PLM  few weeks ago and we had a very good conversation. If you haven’t had chance to be involved, I’d suggest you to take…

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Emerging Social Economies and PLM communities

Two published stories drove my attention and got me to think again about various dimensions of social PLM development. Dion Hinchcliffe “Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy” and “DS Web 2.0 community platform“. I’d put an interest of PLM providers to discover values of relationship in the new…

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