Three dot weekend…

A colleague just wrote about an inspirational story surrounding a HS hoops team… here’s another… HS Senior with no legs and stubs for arms has made it to the OH state HS Tournament.  His record is around 40-2 on the year…  He won his first match yesterday… one more win and he’s in the semi-finals [...]

PLM in America

Is the Americas region not holding up its end of the bargain for PLM vendors?  I’ve writtten recently about PTC’s and Dassault’s recent struggles there.  Now Autodesk reports and they too had an especially weak set of results from the Americas region.  Now, Autodesk is somewhat different in that they are not a “pure” PLM [...]

Forrester on Workplace Use of Web 2.0

Just read a really interesting piece from Forrester Research (Erica Driver and Rob Koplowitz) on the challenge and opportunities businesses face with the new world of Web 2.0 (Walking the Fiune Line Between Chaos and Control in the World of Enterprise Web 2.0).  Erica has been reporting on the collaboration space for quite some time [...]

Trip Advisor as a tool for Social Production

On our recent trip to Hawaii, we stayed at a small boutique hotel , Renew, that is part of the Hawaiian chain Aqua.  Wherever we go on a vacation, we often turn to Trip Advisor to get real world customer feedback on hotels, activities, etc.  We did the same for our trip to Hawaii, gaining [...]

Starbucks and their Competition…

You may have read today that Starbucks is slated to cut 600 jobs from their workforce in an effort to reduce costs and perhaps take a bit different direction strategy wise.  While the downturn at the world’s leading coffee retailer is not so much new as it is an indicator of adapting to your competition.  Like [...]

Innovate with “Packaging”

You may recall I was in the market for a new HD TV… I finally made the choice with a Samsung 50″ plasma ordering it earlier this AM.  In doing my background on this, I thought about how TV mfrs can take the next step introducing some next gen technology, packaging, look/feel, etc.  While most are [...]