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Innovation

What I learned: The Front End of Innovation is Disconnected from PLM

What I learned this week… came from The Front End of Innovation event in Boston. One thing that stuck in my mind from the event, based on conversations with end users and from presentations, is the lack of connection between the front end of innovation and the rest of the product lifecycle. Customers seem content…

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    Jeff Hojlo - June 1, 2009 - Filed Under: What I Learned - Tagged With: Innovation, Product Development, Customer Needs Management, Front End of Innovation, Ideation, PLM

    What I Learned: Socially Developed Engineering and Product Documentation?

    What I learned this week … came from two recent conversations with manufacturers about their use of social computing to support product innovation, product development, and engineering. I am exploring how companies are using these technologies to improve design and product development collaboration, but also trying to uncover ways they are going beyond collaboration on a specific product or design. Two of my recent conversations touched on the use of wikis and blogs to present information. To be more accurate, these manufacturers are using wikis and blogs to both collect and communicate engineering and product knowledge. Pretty interesting stuff, I think.

      Jim Brown - May 27, 2009 - Filed Under: What I Learned - Tagged With: Blog, Credibility, Engineering Content, Product Design, Product Documentation, PLM, Product Knowledge, Social Computing, Trusted Information, Validity, Engineering, wiki, Innovation, Collaboration

      What I Learned: Innovation at 27,000 feet on Mount Everest?

      What I learned this week . . . came from The Front End of Innovation event in Boston. At day one of the event, Author Jim Collins (Good to Great, Built to Last, Why the Mighty Fall) gave a rousing presentation of findings from his latest research. According to his research, the reason mighty companies fail is not because of lack of innovation. In fact the ones that succeed in the harshest conditions, at “27,000 feet on Mount Everest,” are not necessarily ones who bring a lot of new products to market; it’s the companies that are disciplined in their innovation approach, and have the right people working on the right projects.

        Jeff Hojlo - May 27, 2009 - Filed Under: What I Learned - Tagged With: Innovation, Product Development, Customer Needs Management, Front End of Innovation, Ideation, PLM

        One-to-One: SmarTeam Customers Talk About PLM for SMB

        I had the chance to talk with … several ENOVIA SmarTeam customers during my recent research. I talked with them for my paper on how mid-sized manufacturers have leveraged product innovation and PLM to get through challenging economic times and come out better during the recovery. See my Research Rap: Small to Midsize Manufacturer in an Economic Downturn? Innovate! for an overview of…

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          Jim Brown - May 22, 2009 - Filed Under: One-to-One - Tagged With: Implementation, SMB, Innovation, Engineering Change, Downturn, ENOVIA SmarTeam, PLM

          Research Rap: Small to Midsize Manufacturer in an Economic Downturn? Innovate!

          A quick peek into some Tech-Clarity research on … Innovating Through an Economic Downturn points out the importance of innovation so that smaller manufacturers can survive in the current, global economic crisis. The paper is intended to help companies develop an action plan that both recognizes the difficult reality that most manufacturers face today, and allows them to continue to invest in the future. This research complements earlier Tech-Clarity research focused on Engineering’s Role in Surviving a Down Economy, focusing on the implications for small to mid-size businesses (SMB).

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          Jim Brown - May 20, 2009 - Filed Under: Clarity on PLM, Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: Innovation, Economic Downturn, ENOVIA, SmarTeam, White Paper, Research Rap, Mid-Sized, PLM, Research, Tech-Clarity, SMB

          What I Learned: Flogging the “Facebook for Product Development” Horse

          What I learned this week… is that it is really fun to pick on Facebook because it doesn’t have the capabilities to support product innovation, product development, and engineering. Of course, it was never intended to and that is probably not a market that they are really very interested in. But it is fun, and also helps to bring home some of the requirements that are important for social computing in PLM. This post started as a reply to Stan’s comment on my “not building an airplane on Facebook post,” and I realized after about 17 pages of comments that maybe I had better turn it into a blog post. Thank you Stan for bringing up a lot of very good questions.

            Jim Brown - May 14, 2009 - Filed Under: What I Learned - Tagged With: Innovation, Product Development, Business-Oriented Social Computing, IP, Photos, Security, PLM, Social Networking, Social Computing, Status, Engineering, Facebook

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