THE PLM STATE

This morning as I peered out onto a foggy Oregon landscape from my home office, it struck me just how far I had come from the typical American corporate workspace of my past. A far cry from the...

I recently read an excellent book by Kenichi Ohmae, a Japanese business strategist, called “The Invisible Continent”. Mr. Ohmae sites Cisco a few times in the book as an example of a product...

One of the more compelling concepts in Star Wars and in general is the idea of the unstoppable super weapon that gives countries, planets or even evil empires an overwhelming advantage versus their...

It was interesting that Michael Dell spoke for 40 minutes and barely mentioned hardware. It was also interesting that Oracle president Mark Hurd made a point of saying twice how much more they...

Fall is in the air and San Francisco beckons so it must be time again for Oracle Open World. Last year I used the Wizard of Oz theme to describe my experiences which I thought worked pretty well....

A Flow Graph of PLM, CRM, SCM and ERP during a Product's Life.

In the book, Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play (Amazon), authors Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig propose a better way.

Salespeople, they argue, perform best when focusing 100 percent on helping clients...

Cartoon Network will be releasing a new version of the storied cartoon series Thundercats on July 29^th at 8 pm Eastern time. I am really excited by this and after reading a cool article comparing the...

Integrating robust systems such as EPDM, Intralink and Agile PLM can be a pretty complex task. This is especially true when you consider that different companies will have different business...

Google Chrome and PLM? What I learned about a Platform with apps.