I’ve been doing lots of reading today. So, I decided to share some of them related to business strategies, sales, competition and cloud adoption. The first one from Peter Thiel’s lecture about business strategies and first movers. Navigate here to listen. Here is my favorite passage: So even if the market…
Globalization is a reality of today’s manufacturing environment. It is no unusual to have even small companies distributed across the globe. At the time, web technologies are helping us to deploy systems globally, people collaboration is still something that goes beyond the technology. One of the most critical factors is…
Cloud and Security. I hope I’ve got your attention a bit :). In 99% of my talks about PLM and the cloud, the topic of security was coming very fast. The question of how to provide a balanced way to handle it is the one I’m mostly interested. Thinking about…
I’m continuing to think about Amazon cloud failure. As you may have noticed, the “cloud” is a frequent topic on my blog. I’ve been talking about the cloud with many people and organizations during the last couple of years and learning what are best practices in delivery of stable cloud…
In my view, the majority of organizations are collaborating using pure email. PLM implementation has hard time to compete with email to become first class collaboration tools. I had a chance to see an interesting company DokDok making software for Google Apps that allows you to share documents separately from…
Prompt – do you think we are going to have free Project Management tools? Is it next possible Google App? How Product Development and Lifecycle will be able to use it? Take a look on Manymoon. I think we will see more such tools in the future… Just opinion.
Short prompt on seamless integration between Google Apps and Microsoft Outlook. We all know, email is one of the strongest collaboration tools available today in organization and people are using Outlook frontend as main application on desktop. Many enterprise tools (including PLM/PDM) are connected to Outllook to deliver notification, request…
After starting a massive Excel discussion last week and continuing this week, I got a lot of comments that I was too Microsoft-oriented. And, folks in Redmond, I love you, but we need to check whether or not this is blind love. I will not talk much about the Microsoft…
Look at this news about Google Cloud: 1. MS Office: 0. Actually, most of the discussion here is about when MS Office will die, but for the PLM minded reader I’d say – look at the customer. Automotive Supplier Valeo is on the list of PLM businesses. So, let’s discuss…
