THE PLM STATE

Flow, according to poet W. H. Auden, "is the state of forgetting oneself in a function." Whether its riding a wave or hitting a golf ball, the feeling of "being in the flow" is unsurpassed....

I wrote this blog back in 2010, and invite your comments about how pricing has changed (or not) over the past 6 years.

A blog written by Oleg Shilovitsky titled "How to Manage ECO's without paying...

Over the past several years, the word customization has taken on very negative connotations in the enterprise software implementation space. Horror stories of lengthy implementations and hard to...

When I saw that James Cameron was going to be the day two speaker at SolidWorks World (2010), I thought to myself, pretty good timing considering he is the hottest director with the hottest film out...

Part One of this “Strange Trip” Article Series delved into a little of the origin of Zero Wait-State and our strategic shift in Sales, Marketing, and Product Development, which included our recent...

For some reason Johnny Cochran's rhyme popped into my head as I was reading a story from a great book titled "Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard" by Chip and Dan Heath. In the story, a...

It’s election year and we have one of the most divisive campaigns I can recall, so of course it means I should write an article about Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) unity. Six years ago, I wrote...

After all the dust settles, you will have to live with whatever is built at your company. We have reviewed the virtues and perils of the "free" process audit; we have analyzed the best way to...

I received a comment on one of the earlier articles from a consultant who was excited because my first article highlighted the need for his services. There are a lot of companies that claim to...

I was reminded this past week how far Zero Wait-State has come as a company over the past 6 years and that it might be worth taking the time to write about where we have been, where we are now and...