Dear friends! I wanted to share some personal news with you. I decided to make a next change in my professional career in 2015. As you might noticed on my LinkedIn page, I will focus on PLM consulting, writing and social media.
PLM consulting
Technology is changing fast these days. Cloud, social and mobile technologies are changing engineering and manufacturing software landscape. I’ve been writing and thinking a lot about cloud technologies and what it can bring to product lifecycle management. All PLM companies today are providing some sort of cloud solutions. It was a very interesting industry shift that happened over the past 2-3 years. At the same time, manufacturing is changing too. We can see new types of manufacturing companies and products in the market. I feel the need to spend more time working with customers on how today’s PLM technologies can solve practical engineering and manufacturing problems for companies of any size. The real value of PLM solution can only come in the intersection of what technology and people can do together. It made me think about coming to PLM consulting to discover future potential of product lifecycle management.
PLM blog and PLM book
Last week, I counted 1’815 blog posts on Beyond PLM blog since I started it six years ago. I know, some of you are following my blog on a regular basis. However, I’ve got many comments from people using my blog as some sort of knowledge source about PLM. It made me think about the need to provide a better access to the information on the blog. Honestly, for myself, I’m using Google to search my own blog articles. It works, but it is still not the best solution for you. I’ve been puzzled with the idea to recompile blog content into a online book about PLM. I’m still not sure about how to do that, but I took it as my new year resolution for 2015. Stay tuned – more news will come about plmbook.com later.
Social media
Social media became part of our life. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn etc. I’m trying to be active online and I’m pretty sure some of you are getting into my blog articles via updates in social media. Nothing wrong with that, but I want to take one step forward and make Beyond PLM social media more interactive. I still don’t know what does it mean. I’ve been looking on twitterstorms as a way to share information on twitter. Tweeting during PLM conferences and events will be another way to share more information. I will make my first experiments during PI congress in Dusseldorf. Another form of social media communication – twitter Q&A about PLM. I’m considering to experiment with that later this year. Tell me what do think about it.
For conclusion… I’m very excited about upcoming changes. If you are interesting in PLM consulting, you can find more information on Beyond PLM website. Beyond PLM will keep providing you daily portion of vendor-independent PLM ideas, thoughts and comments about CAD, PDM, PLM, products and technologies. However, I will be looking how to make it even more interactive than before. These are just my thoughts. But, I’m planning to turn it into actions. Tell me what do you think. I look forward to your comments.
Best, Oleg
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