Category: Product Lifecycle Management

It’s been a while since I have done an update on our SL island (now called Siemens Innovation Connection), so I thought I would run through a few of the thinsg we have been up to: We’re playing around with a few different widgets to track traffic and figure out what people are actually interested…

.!. It’s content like this that makes me remember why I started reading blogs and writing them. This is a great post summarinzing the content of a session I wish I had seen given recently at MIT by Eric von Hipple, who wrote Democratizing Innovation (Amazon Link or Free Download ). This is one of…

Take a few minutes and scroll through the pictures on the post below.  You’ll really get the impression of who gets the whole “design language” thing and who doesn’t. Succeed With This

That taste great together (hopefully by separating those two statements I have avoided the ire of the hershey’s attorney squad ;-)): Second Life and Social production.  Xaver found an interesting tidbit on how Phillips is using Second Life as a platform for getting users directly involved in the production of the products that Phillips hope…

Interesting post over on autoblog from yesterday.  While the article describes it as an “esperanto” for design, I hope J Mays can be more successful than the UN was.  We’ve all seen the elements of design languages across families of products.  The distinctive “cross” grill on Dodge products.  The sliver slipperiness of Apple products. What…

Really well written (because it is short and to the point) article that appears in the San Jose Mercury News today about the potential for manufacturing in the US to make a comeback.   The central meme is that advances in technology have allowed for the manufacturing process to be abstracted to the point that…

Yesterday was the kickoff our Americas Innovation Leadership Summit in sunny Scottsdale, AZ.  I had intended to live blog during the morning sessions, but unfortunately had some connectivity problems, so I am catching up with yesterday’s speakers today and will post today’s tomorrow. The Innovation Leadership Summit is an annual event that we hold with…

While it didn’t slip out of first place by much (a few percentage points), top line growth is no longer the top concern of global CEOs.  What has replaced it?  Execution Excellence.  In my view this is just a maturing of understanding the issue and says that CEOs have a better understanding of what specific…

While the looks of it may not be all that inspiring, I am still really charged up about the concept.  The idea of enabling user generated innovation of physical (instead of just IP or cultural) products is one whose time has come.  I expect to see a lot of companies starting up that enable users…