Unless you live under the rock for the last few weeks, you probably noticed a massive amount of emails telling you about updated privacy policy. It was a reaction of businesses on introduction of new European regulation – GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). In general GDPR is supposed to protect…
I remember CEO of one large company saying that he is not afraid of competition from usual suspects – large companies. He continued – we know what usual suspects do and following every single step. But, he said, I’m afraid of the competition coming from some unknown garage and small…
CAD industry has its own rock-stars. And both Carl Bass (former CEO of Autodesk) and Jon Hirschtick (CEO of Onshape and founder of Solidworks) are part of the rock start CAD group. They are incredibly interesting individuals to meet and talk. I had a privilege to have conversations with both…
IoT is PLM. Remember my blog from a year ago? It was a message from PTC LiveWorx last year by Jim Hepplemann, PTC CEO and President. Check Jim’s explanation about IoT in this video I captured last year I’m getting prepared for an annual PTC LiveWorx event. LiveWorx 2018 will…
We are facing new technologies intervention almost every day. While technological transformation is a very good thing, to find and a balance of technology adoption, customer needs and cost of transformation is a very tough goal. My attention was caught by Panasonic article speaking about adoption of disruptive technologies in…
Magic is one of the old professions in the world. Some articles nominates magician to be a second old profession. However, I found interesting that magic had changed from generation to generation. Many centuries ago, magicians were advisers to kings and emperors. Long before advanced science and medicine, magicians influenced…
For the last 20 years, Solidworks built a great product and eco-system of users. They are innovative, energetic and loyal to Solidworks brand. Solidworks became de-facto standard in many places for mechanical design and engineering. Students are learning Solidworks in colleges. Solidworks is almost an automatic choice for many engineering…
One of the trending technologies these days is blockchain. Unless you live under the rock for the last few years, you probably heard about it. Blockchain is designed to be resistant to modification of data and therefore there is a growing interest to use blockchain to implement variety of applications…
Among many topics I’m following, these two three letter acronyms are capable to ignite a discussion almost every single time. The topic is indeed controversial. Just to remind you some of my earlier blogs – PLM vs BIM: common roots or common future ; PLM v BIM: United or Separated; PLM…
PLM consulting is an interesting part of PLM business. Traditionally, PLM projects were big and expensive. When you about to pay millions to PLM vendor and service providers, you better check yourself and hire consulting people. Even for small and midsize projects consulting service can pay off. Last year I…
