Gartner releases predictions for 2012. Social networking to become a keep element of the PLM solution. Gartner predicts social capabilities will evolve as an integral part the PLM backbone.
Market Implications:
Social networking will continue to grow as part of PLM software. Key roles in PLM, including engineers, scientists, manufacturing specialists, service specialists, potential partners and external innovators, [...]
Continue Reading →Writing a post about team the day after the Super Bowl would certainly feel better if the right team had won… Team is just as important in business as it is in sports and Vuuch has built a Super Bowl wining team. In 2011 Vuuch won great customers and in the 4th quarter started thinking [...]
Continue Reading →Richard Davis came by the Vuuch offices the other day to have a look at what we are doing. Richard is well know by the CAD and enterprise software worlds as he has followed these markets closely for years. Although this was the first time I had ever meet Richard I certainly knew his name from [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve all been there – meetings that go on and on while you sit there knowing that as soon as the bagel crumbs are wiped away and coffee cups recycled, your team members will return to their places with the same bad habits. Team Meetings help distribute information and get everyone on the same page, [...]
Continue Reading →Project plans are a mainstay of delivering any sort of project, yet even the best project teams with the most elegant project plans seem to maintain some sort of “project list”. A project plan is just that – a plan of how you want something to happen. The plan does not mean it will happen [...]
Continue Reading →I was reading Oleg’s post http://plmtwine.com/2011/07/07/google-plm-and-the-product-data-sharing-models/ on sharing models and Google circle and it got me wondering what they are up to…
So what is Google up to with Circles? My belief is they fully understand the problem of information overload that results from social streams. Yammer, Jive, Facebook, Twitter, or any other social [...]
Continue Reading →Although I’m not sure if it was SharePoint or ProductPoint that was once the new love… it is now clear they have the makings of an ugly divorce and customers are getting another technology dear john. In the beginning emotion and promotion was rampant – Like any new love affair…
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This post started as a reply to Oleg’s post on work-in-progress (WIP) versus system-of-record http://plmtwine.com/2011/06/06/plm-work-in-progress-vs-system-of-records/ but by the time I was done I had written more than a comment…
As Oleg points out there are two distinct things going on. There are, as he states, systems of record and WIP tools. While I agree [...]
Continue Reading →I read a post on http://beyondplm.com/2010/10/20/cad-pdm-and-plm-diversity/ about multi CAD file management. The post was spurred on by a tweet Johnathan made. This discussion is oh so old… What struck me reading this was the fact that no one ever talks about the official released file.
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Continue Reading →Oleg just wrote a post arguing that size matters “one size doesn’t fit all”, well I think we have heard that one before. In product development size does not matter. Desired complexity or functionality is what matters. Take a small medical device startup of 18 people, [...]
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