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What I Learned

A Compliance Wake Up Call for Manufacturers

What I learned this week … came from a post that I found in a Consumer Reports blog. The article, Tailgating Alert: Gasoline-powered blender banned by California Air Resources Board could have come out of the Onion because it is pretty over the top (who needs a blender with handlebars!?). But the punch line is not funny for the manufacturer in Phoenix, who probably had no idea that they were violating a California law and got slapped with a $240,00 fine.

    Jim Brown - October 1, 2009 - Filed Under: What I Learned - Tagged With: Product Compliance, Manufacturers, Manufacturing, Compliance, Environmental Compliance

    Social Computing in PLM and the Scarce Resource of Attention

    What I learned this week … came from a post on Socialwrite.com titled The Attention Question in Social Business. I have struggled over this one for the past several days because the post puts forward a compelling and brilliant observation – but I can’t quite grasp the analogy when applied to my world – social computing in PLM. I woke up this morning with a clear thought in my head on it (look up “get a life” on Wikipedia, see my picture) and decided it was time to share my thoughts. So here they are.

      Jim Brown - September 30, 2009 - Filed Under: What I Learned - Tagged With: PLM, Social Computing, Attention, Resource, Social Business

      Virtual Fashion Shows via PLM

      What I learned this week … came from an article on Yahoo! Tech News titled Technology in starring role at NY Fashion Week. The article really made me think about how virtual worlds, social computing, and PLM could transform fashion shows.

        Jim Brown - September 18, 2009 - Filed Under: What I Learned - Tagged With: Time to Market, Virtual, PLM, Apparel, Fashion, Rendering, Simulation, Supplier Collaboration

        People Tagging in Product Development

        What I learned this week … was sparked by some recent social networking announcements on people tagging. The most recent was that Facebook plans to offer tagging very similar to what Twitter offers. This follows other announcements around geo-tagging, but I am really most interested in how tagging people can help in product development (and overall in product innovation).

          Jim Brown - September 14, 2009 - Filed Under: What I Learned - Tagged With: PLM, Knowledge Management, Social Computing, People Tagging, twitter, Social Networks, Tagging, Engineering, Facebook, Innovation, Manufacturers, Product Development, Product Knowledge, Social Discovery

          Idea Management as a Software Ecosystem

          What I learned this week … came from some research I have been doing for a client. As a part of it, I have been spending a little more time getting to know the “Idea Management” software space. The conclusion that I am drawing is that while there are some mature software solutions to manage ideas, there are also a host of other specialty solutions that help generate the idea in the first place, analyze the idea, or further develop it.

            Jim Brown - September 9, 2009 - Filed Under: What I Learned - Tagged With: PLM, Social Computing, Innovation, Social Networking, Communities, Crowdsourcing, Filtering, Idea Management, Ranking

            Mining Social Network Emotions and Opinions for Product Development

            What I learned this week …came from an article in The New York Times by Alex Wright. The article, Mining the Web for Feelings not Facts, was a great look into a concept that is new to me, an emerging field called “sentiment analysis.” The article defines sentiment analysis as “translating the vagaries of human emotion into hard data.” The examples show companies using data analysis techniques to gain insight into what social media (such as social networks and blogs) are saying about their company. My thoughts immediately turned to the value this information would have to product developers to understand how customers feel about their products, and what a great tool this could be in the social computing toolkit for PLM.

              Jim Brown - August 26, 2009 - Filed Under: What I Learned - Tagged With: PLM, Social Computing, Social Product Development, Engineering, Innovation, Product Development, Social Networking, Analytics, Social Discovery, Sentiment Analysis

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