Technology and products are not always going together. What is the most fascinating to me is to see how technological splashes create future in products. Last year I had chance to discuss Google Wave. It was a completely technological vision with some fuzzy product examples. In my post, last year,…
Last week announcement about SAP-Sybase acquisition made me think about potential paths for PLM applications and technological verticals in the future. It is interesting to see SAP’s pick up of aged Sybase. On the surface, the business justification is clear. Following previous jumbo acquisition of Business Objects in 2007 and…
This is a weekend post. I was trying to find a way to present in one page what I’m blogging about on Daily PLM Think Tank. I found a very cool site Wordle. You can use Wordle to create a word cloud. What was nice to discover that you can…
Are you familiar with the term “Continues Partial Attention“? I found it as a very compelling to what is going with Information Overloaded (IO) these days. Here is Wikipedia’s definition of CPA: The term Continuous Partial Attention (CPA) was coined by Linda Stone in 1998.[1][2] Author Steven Berlin Johnson describes…
I think cloud / SaaS option for PLM can become a reality earlier than expected. Listening to customers, vendors as well as reading all news and buzz stream, I can definitely see a changing trend with regards to cloud based solutions. There is an increased trend of discussion about possible…
One of the areas that is always in the focus of people related to Product Lifecycle Management is how to manage changes in the organization. It sounds obvious – product lifecycle is all about changes. So, it seems to me, change management need to be a sweet spot of PLM….
Everybody in the engineering and manufacturing loves MS Excel. I had chance to write about it multiple times before. You can take a look on few of my previous talks about MS Excel and PLM- Why do I like my PLM Spreadsheets? and PLM Excel Spreadsheets: From Odes to Woes….
I think, mobile becomes more and more important every day. The amount of mobile devices surrounding us is growing. Today’s mobile devices are a powerful unit that can help us to handle many tasks when we are out of our desk. In my view, the decade of 2010s will change…
I’m getting back to my thoughts related to Social Software and Product Lifecycle Management. Jim Brown defined the role of Social Software as an intelligent network for PLM in his last post. It turns me back to one of my previous posts- PLM and Social Tool: The Odd Couple. I’ve…
You can find this post as something unusual. I decided to jump in my PLM Think Tank Time Machine in… 1987 and see what people were thinking about PLM 25 years ago. In order to accomplish this trip, I took the following book: How To Integrate CAD/CAM Systems by William…
